Robert Wright
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Stop evangelizing!
14 hours agoIn the New York Times , Robert Wright complains that Christian missionaries are at least partially responsible for Christian-Muslim tension when they try to establish common ground with Muslims in order to bring them to Jesus. Some of the missionaries even call themselves... by mirrorofjustice.blogs.com | related posts
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The Evolution of God By Robert Wright
23 hours agoThe Evolution of God By Robert WrightThank God for agnostics. Over the past decade, our public conversation about religion has all too often degenerated into a food fight between the religious right and the secular left. Now comes journalist Robert Wright with a gentler approach: a materialist account of religion... by evolutionarymystic.wordpress.com | related posts
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You Might Die in Your Toyota. It Happens.
Mar 10, 2010You Might Die in Your Toyota. It Happens.A great post from Robert Wright at the New York Times about why the disproportionate attention paid to Toyota recalls is worrisome and innumerate: if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems and don’t bother to comply with the recall, your chances of being... by reason.com/blog | related posts
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One problem with the equation...:
Mar 10, 2010Toyotas Are Safe (Enough) (ROBERT WRIGHT, 3/09/10, NY Times) My back-of-the-envelope calculations (explained in a footnote below) suggest that if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems and don’t bother to comply with the recall, your chances of being... by brothersjuddblog.com | related posts
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Russell Blackford Danger: Teleologist at work! Robert Wright’s “The...
Jan 19, 2010Russell Blackford Danger: Teleologist at work! Robert Wright’s “The...-turning prose that is cunningly woven into a fascinating narrative; I had no trouble reading 300 of its large-format pages in one day, even though I was quite busy with other things that day, and I was never slowed down by the density of the information and argument that it presents. No doubt about it -... by ieet.org/index.php/IEET/IEETblog | related posts
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Russell Blackford Danger: Teleologist at work! Robert Wright’s “The...
Jan 19, 2010Russell Blackford Danger: Teleologist at work! Robert Wright’s “The...—Wright can write. Better still, the scholarship is serious and impressive. As H. Allen Orr acknowledges in his review in The New York Review of Books , the discussion is “surpisingly erudite.” He goes on: The Evolution of God is full of footnotes and the literature cited in them is... by ieet.org/index.php/IEET/IEETblog | related posts
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Can Science Explain Religion?
Jan 12, 2010Can Science Explain Religion?H. Allen Orr reviews Robert Wright's The Evolution of God in the NYRB: Several themes emerge from Wright's analysis of religion that are reminiscent of those that characterize the evolution of life. For one thing, the history of religion has,... by 3quarksdaily.com | related posts
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Is God Moody?
Dec 15, 2009Is God Moody?Time published an article by Robert Wright, which tries to sort out how “the God” of the three Abrahamic religions could start off as violent and then moved to be more graceful. Wright gives the impression that God is somehow moody. Wright... by blog.timesunion.com/rudnick | related posts
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Dear Recalcitrant Portrait Subject – Robert Wright (Robert Wright...
Dec 11, 2009soft desert night aglow with sparklers, a bitten peach spilling juice down your pimply chin. And you D_____ , never do candids I understand, who would want to see your ample jowels mid-sentence frag-one eye drifting off to points unrelated to the other- — Robert Wright... by photonewstoday.com | related posts
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In Iowa, As Huck Goes, So Goes Romney?
Dec 01, 2009Presidential primary politics is not, as Robert Wright might put it, always a zero sum game. Given the prevailing metaphors of political positioning and space, one candidate often fills an ideological space and displaces others -- think Pat Robertson in the 1988 Iowa caucuses.... by politics.theatlantic.com | related posts
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Shamans and Development Experts
Nov 30, 2009By William Easterly Robert Wright writes in his fascinating book, The Evolution of God : There is in the world today a great and mysterious force that shapes the fortunes of millions of people…There are people who claim to have special insights into this force…Most of them have... by blogs.nyu.edu/fas/dri/aidwatch | related posts
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Hitchens to “Who Created Hasan”
Nov 24, 2009This past weekend, I read Robert Wright’s anti-intellectual piece in the New York Times entitled “Who Created Major Hasan?“. Of course, since it’s Robert Wright and the New York Times, you know his conclusion. It was us (or US, if you... by thisainthell.us | related posts
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