You'd think the Abrahamic God would make up his mind — Can he live with other gods or not? What's with the random mood fluctuations? But the fluctuations aren't really random. If you juxtapose the Abrahamic Scriptures with what scholars have learned about the circumstances surrounding their creation, a pattern appears. (tags: religionislamhistorychristianitygodculture)
"…denialism, the systematic rejection of a body of science in favour of make-believe. There's a lot of it about, attacking evolution, global warming, tobacco research, HIV, vaccines – and now, it seems, flu. But why does it happen? What motivates people to retreat from the real world into denial?" (tags: climateconspiracycreationismepistemologypoliticspsychologyreligionsciencedenialismdenial)