God & conservatism part n....

Heater Mac Donald has a lengthy follow up article where she responds to her critics.

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I just found this article by Heather Mac Donald in Slate, Send a Message to God: He has gone too far this time. She published it two years ago, and somehow I missed it!
John Weeks has long been an activist for alternative medicine—excuse me, “complementary and alternative medicine” (CAM) or, as it’s more commonly referred to these days, “integrative medicine.” Despite his having zero background in scientific research or the design and execution of experiments and…
Real Clear Politics has a column titled The Secular Right which reflects upon the Mac Donald vs. God affair. Interestingly, the author linked to my post where I followed the debate in The Corner. A few months ago my summary of John Derbyshire's summary of Judith Rich Harris' work was linked from…
Over at my other blog 10 questions fo Heather Mac Donald. You might remember Heather from her recent dust up with other conservatives in regards to her secularity.

Regarding the 'personal experience of God' or 'sacred sense' that some religionists use as evidence of God's existence; 'sacred' experiences can be induced in other ways. Or maybe God just works through the mushrooms:

'Sacred mushrooms' induce mystical experience

Using unusually rigorous scientific conditions and measures, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown that the active agent in "sacred mushrooms" can induce mystical/spiritual experiences descriptively identical to spontaneous ones people have reported for centuries.

By somnilista, FCD (not verified) on 23 Aug 2006 #permalink