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God Or Science? A Belief In One Weakens Positive Feelings For The Other "It seemed to me that both science and religion as systems were very good at explaining a lot, accounting for a lot of the information that we have in our environment," she said. "But if they are both ultimate exp...

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I have officially killed off pingbacks and trackbacks here on Baltimoremick.  After receiving the latest in a string of annoying pingbacks, I decided to turn this feature off.  You know the kind that begins with: <Your blog name here> wrote an interesting post today on <Blog Post Title>...