In national polls, it’s been looking like Obama’s outreach to moderate evangelicals has been unsuccessful. But recent state polls indicate he’s doing a bit better among evangelicals in certain states. A new ABCNews poll of Ohio voters has McCain winning white evangelicals 65%-30%, a smaller margin than Bush had 2004 (75%-23%). A recent Qunnipiac survey…

I don’t normally post links to my media appearances because when I see or hear them I’m usually obsessed with the things I forgot to say. But I wanted to bring your attention to two clips, and hear your reaction. First, is an interview I did with Terry Gross of Fresh Air. Do you think…

Maher declares at the outset that he’s just a reasonable man who seeks to raise the status of “doubt.” While religion sells a silly/dangerous “invisible product,” he says, “my product is doubt.” But by the end he declares, with fervor that would make Jimmy Swaggert proud, “Religion must die if mankind is to live.” There…

I was initially impressed that Bill Maher interviewed Francis Collins, the brilliant scientist who led the human genome project and who has written eloquently about being both a believer and a scientist. But in the movie, Collins seemed uncharacteristically confused, as he discussed the accuracy of the Bible, a topic I’d not seen him comment…

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