"What series of events made you reexamine your faith, and how did you decide that your religion was wanting?"

Because the asker is a good friend of mine, I honestly didn't mind answering, but I asked for a few days to write it all down. I didn't want to just tell the bones of the story and miss any details that I thought were important to me, as part of my own journey into applying rationalism to religion.

Then, not an hour after my first friend asked me, a…

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=okay-we-give-up&flushCache=1

Scientific American apologizes for being so incredibly closed-minded, and promises to not be blinded by piles of evidence and peer-reviewed papers anymore.