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Can I pay a robot to say a quantum prayer for me?
Science and religion: strange bedfellows to say the least. (Chad Baker/Digital Vision/Getty Images) The other day I posted about the possibilities of using quantum denial to avert an impending...
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Choose Your Own Apocalypse
"Hello, my name is Shiva and I'll be your harbinger of global destruction for the evening." (AP Photo/Sackler Gallery) So the other day, fellow blogger Marshall Brain posted a couple of YouTube videos...
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The Laws of Science (and Faith)
Unless those light sabers are low-energy, Jedi devotion still won't count as a legal "religion or belief." (Scott Barbour/Getty Images) Devout environmentalism is now tantamount to religious conviction...
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Can science and religion coexist?
Who are you? What is the universe? And why? (Chard Baker/Photodisc/Getty Images) My friend Bill made an interesting statement on Twitter today: “Maybe we can cut a deal where all the biologists can...
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Science and Religion: Two Shades of Why
Ganesh with a mobile phone. See? No conflict here. (Adrian Pope/Photographer's Choice/Getty Images) Yesterday I blogged about Vatican astronomer Guy J. Consolmagno’s thoughts on the relationship...
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Atheism, Fundamentalism and Possibilianism
Man reaches out to touch God but refuses to get up from couch in Michaelangelo's "La Creazione." (AP Photo) Is there a God? Did some unimaginable divine hand set the course of human events or does it...
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Should NASA fake an interplanetary holy war?
Space Satan! (CSA_Images/Vetta/Getty) Neil deGrasse Tyson is probably the last person to suggest NASA falsify the threat of alien invasion to play on humanity’s fears. I also doubt he’d suggest that...
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Blow the Mind: Hammer of the Witches
Circa 1500, mythical witches communing in a woodland landscape. (Rischgitz/Getty Images) Imagine a half million corpses — mostly women — piled high on a pyre. Imagine an age of social turmoil,...
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Musings: Religion, Game Design and Salad Bar Spirituality
Behold: Carpenter poses with the core cast of “Big Trouble in Little China.” (Image courtesy John Carpenter) “There’s Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoist alchemy and sorcery. We take what we want and...
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Stream it: ‘Kumaré: The True Story of a False Prophet’
(Image via Amazon) I caught the documentary “Kumaré” on Netflix last night and found it overall a fascinating look at gurus and spiritual leaders. See, the whole gimmick at first sounds like a Sacha...
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Hell is Here: The Gnostic Option
Sophia, what have you done? (Alina Vincent Photography, LLC/Getty) Hell is here on Earth. Just casual attention to current events and the terror of history tends to support that notion. The concept...
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Does Islam forbid one-way death trips to Mars?
Who is god of Mars’ dead? (Michael Knight/iStock) What happens when we take our terrestrial religions into extraterrestrial territory? It’s a question that always fascinates me, whether we’re talking...
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Supernormal Stimuli & Three-Breasted Women
Actress Kaitlyn Leeb in the 2012 “Total Recall” remake. (Image via Film Actually) The human organism is drawn by certain naturally-occurring stimuli to carry out various functions in our genetic...
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Self-Flagellation: Justice, Forgiveness and Pain
Prozession der Flagellanten. Gemaelde. 1813. (Imagno/Getty) Put yourself in mindset of the medieval flagellants. It’s the 14th century and an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty permeates the grim...
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Understanding ‘Jihad’ in Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’
Dueling blades in ‘Dune.’ (Universal Pictures) Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel “Dune” contains quite a few Islamic themes, most notably that of “jihad,” from the Butlarian Jihad against thinking...
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Welcome to the Council of Selves
A council of selves. (Saul landell/Mex/Moment/Getty) If you’re a long-time Stuff to Blow Your Mind listener, then you’ve probably noticed a recurring theme on our journey: the damnably elusive self....
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