Clay Farris Naff's Blog
Ad Astra: Science, Religion & Our Future
Clay Farris Naff
- Location
- Lincoln, Nebraska, 68502
- Birthday
- April 03
- Bio
- Clay Farris Naff (claynaff.com) is a science writer with a special interest in the rational reconciliation of religions with science. You can follow him at Twitter @claynaff, or visit his religion blog at www.huffingtonpost.com/clay-naff
An award-winning journalist and author, he has been a science-and-religion columnist for the Metanexus Institute, an editor for Greenhaven Press, and a freelance writer for various publications, including most recently Earth magazine and The Humanist.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Clay to Dems: Stop Being
Stooges and Get Health Reform
Done!
February 24, 2010 08:25AM - Obama Outrages GOP with Plan
to Privatize Moon Shot
February 02, 2010 07:59AM - Do Women Secretly Tell Men
When It's Time to Have Sex?
January 21, 2010 08:04AM - Evolution and the Devolution
of Science Reporting
January 13, 2010 08:39AM - Hold the Phone! That Droid
Just Might Be Good For Ya!
January 07, 2010 04:59PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Good news for you,
Harvey. NASA will apparently
make grants
to private
companies…”
February 03, 2010 07:41AM - “Re. David Cox's
comments, I appreciate your
views and believe
me I support
space…”
February 02, 2010 02:41PM - “Thanks for all your
comments. It is fascinating to
realize
how much is going on
b…”
January 21, 2010 10:32PM - “vzn,
Your angry
charges come so fast and thick
that I can't tell what
you're
s…”
January 14, 2010 08:04AM - “Thanks for that
clarification, Ed. (For those
who don't know
him, Ed is a
profess…”
January 07, 2010 08:36PM
Clay Farris Naff's Links
February 03, 2010 07:41AM
“Good news for you, Harvey. NASA will apparently make grants to private companies to develop new ways to put payloads (read: tourists) in space. I u…”
About: Obama Outrages GOP with Plan to Privatize Moon Shot
“Good news for you, Harvey. NASA will apparently make grants to private companies to develop new ways to put payloads (read: tourists) in space. I u…”
About: Obama Outrages GOP with Plan to Privatize Moon Shot
February 02, 2010 02:41PM
“Re. David Cox's comments, I appreciate your views and believe me I support space exploration, but nothing you've said touches the point that it's point…”
About: Obama Outrages GOP with Plan to Privatize Moon Shot
“Re. David Cox's comments, I appreciate your views and believe me I support space exploration, but nothing you've said touches the point that it's point…”
About: Obama Outrages GOP with Plan to Privatize Moon Shot
January 21, 2010 10:32PM
“Thanks for all your comments. It is fascinating to realize how much is going on below the surface in us. However, we should keep a few caveats in mind.…”
About: Do Women Secretly Tell Men When It's Time to Have Sex?
“Thanks for all your comments. It is fascinating to realize how much is going on below the surface in us. However, we should keep a few caveats in mind.…”
About: Do Women Secretly Tell Men When It's Time to Have Sex?
January 14, 2010 08:04AM
“vzn, Your angry charges come so fast and thick that I can't tell what you're so overheated about. I'm perfectly willing to respond to criticism if…”
About: Evolution and the Devolution of Science Reporting
“vzn, Your angry charges come so fast and thick that I can't tell what you're so overheated about. I'm perfectly willing to respond to criticism if…”
About: Evolution and the Devolution of Science Reporting
January 07, 2010 08:36PM
“Thanks for that clarification, Ed. (For those who don't know him, Ed is a professor emeritus of physics.) From what I understand, a cell phone transmit…”
About: Hold the Phone! That Droid Just Might Be Good For Ya!
“Thanks for that clarification, Ed. (For those who don't know him, Ed is a professor emeritus of physics.) From what I understand, a cell phone transmit…”
About: Hold the Phone! That Droid Just Might Be Good For Ya!
January 03, 2010 11:36AM
“I think you've misunderstood me. I'm not downplaying his behavior, but putting it -- and the reaction -- in context. Moral condemnation is appropriate,…”
About: Tiger Woods & Our New Year's Resolutions
“I think you've misunderstood me. I'm not downplaying his behavior, but putting it -- and the reaction -- in context. Moral condemnation is appropriate,…”
About: Tiger Woods & Our New Year's Resolutions
December 29, 2009 01:55PM
“Miguel, Finally had a chance to catch up with this. As the notorious non-raker of leaves, I have to respond. First and foremost, I was of course jok…”
About: Life According to 'saint?' Shrödinger
“Miguel, Finally had a chance to catch up with this. As the notorious non-raker of leaves, I have to respond. First and foremost, I was of course jok…”
About: Life According to 'saint?' Shrödinger
December 28, 2009 07:16AM
“Catnlion, Actually, the logic of Pascal's Wager points to ethical agnosticism. I've written an essay on this very subject for the Metanexus Global S…”
About: Christmas: A Time for Science and Religion to Make Peace
“Catnlion, Actually, the logic of Pascal's Wager points to ethical agnosticism. I've written an essay on this very subject for the Metanexus Global S…”
About: Christmas: A Time for Science and Religion to Make Peace
December 26, 2009 02:43PM
“Wow! I was offline for about 48 hours after posting the above essay (from a hotspot in a Phoenix mall, no less!) I am amazed to find so many thoughtfu…”
About: Christmas: A Time for Science and Religion to Make Peace
“Wow! I was offline for about 48 hours after posting the above essay (from a hotspot in a Phoenix mall, no less!) I am amazed to find so many thoughtfu…”
About: Christmas: A Time for Science and Religion to Make Peace
December 20, 2009 11:29AM
“Thanks for your comments, both on the blog and by email. I'd like to be the first to to take credit for Senator Nelson's announcement yesterday that he…”
About: The Health Insurance Fiasco
“Thanks for your comments, both on the blog and by email. I'd like to be the first to to take credit for Senator Nelson's announcement yesterday that he…”
About: The Health Insurance Fiasco
December 15, 2009 10:24PM
“Thanks, all. About hESC, the irony is that most come from fertility treatments, which produce an excess of embryos. There are some who get all weepy ab…”
About: Culture Wars -- The Christmas Edition!
“Thanks, all. About hESC, the irony is that most come from fertility treatments, which produce an excess of embryos. There are some who get all weepy ab…”
About: Culture Wars -- The Christmas Edition!
December 09, 2009 04:07PM
“Thanks. I should make it clear that there are non-rabid, indeed rational skeptics of climate change. I hope they are right, but I doubt it. However, th…”
About: Climate Change and the Septic Skeptics
“Thanks. I should make it clear that there are non-rabid, indeed rational skeptics of climate change. I hope they are right, but I doubt it. However, th…”
About: Climate Change and the Septic Skeptics
December 08, 2009 11:54AM
“Spoon under the pillow, huh? I'll have to try that? How's it working for you? Cheers, Clay”
About: Cell Phone Radiation Scare
“Spoon under the pillow, huh? I'll have to try that? How's it working for you? Cheers, Clay”
About: Cell Phone Radiation Scare
December 05, 2009 06:14PM
“Thanks, folks. A few responses. I appreciate Gee Bee's elaborations of what I wrote, though I don't see why he calls them quibbles. Le Logan is right a…”
About: Cell Phone Radiation Scare
“Thanks, folks. A few responses. I appreciate Gee Bee's elaborations of what I wrote, though I don't see why he calls them quibbles. Le Logan is right a…”
About: Cell Phone Radiation Scare
December 01, 2009 09:25PM
“I was hoping to hear from some of you passionate manned mission boosters. (I've had a running friendly argument with Mr. Madison about this for years.)…”
About: Men Aren't From Mars
“I was hoping to hear from some of you passionate manned mission boosters. (I've had a running friendly argument with Mr. Madison about this for years.)…”
About: Men Aren't From Mars
November 19, 2009 11:46PM
“Nice one, Heizeler. But I'm eating kimchee ... just in case. -- Clay”
About: Vampires Are For Real!
“Nice one, Heizeler. But I'm eating kimchee ... just in case. -- Clay”
About: Vampires Are For Real!
November 16, 2009 09:25PM
“Vzn, If you have data about irresponsible endorsements, unsafe vaccines, or risky adjuvants that contradict my statement of the 1.71 serious reacti…”
About: Vaccine Madness
“Vzn, If you have data about irresponsible endorsements, unsafe vaccines, or risky adjuvants that contradict my statement of the 1.71 serious reacti…”
About: Vaccine Madness
November 08, 2009 03:29PM
“Delighted to have you all read and comment, but I am surprised by a few things said here. First, I did not mean to suggest that life is a parasite on t…”
About: The Entropy of Trees*
“Delighted to have you all read and comment, but I am surprised by a few things said here. First, I did not mean to suggest that life is a parasite on t…”
About: The Entropy of Trees*
October 31, 2009 09:48AM
“Monte, I know I'm awfully late in commenting, but the issue is hardly dead. I appreciate your thoughtful response to it, and your willingness as a mi…”
About: Theological Reflection: Theodicy: Why is there Evil?
“Monte, I know I'm awfully late in commenting, but the issue is hardly dead. I appreciate your thoughtful response to it, and your willingness as a mi…”
About: Theological Reflection: Theodicy: Why is there Evil?
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