must be a good game then!

#corrections

I thought it came out when that story first broke that this was a mistranslation?

He does make it sound like video games are just an afterthought; facebook is the REAL monster.

And as far as bloated money grabs go, this story might suffer least from the bloat- I mean, the hobbit itself isn't that well structured for cinematic adaptation. It's mostly "And this wacky thing happened, and then ANOTHER wacky thing happened, and then OH LOOK WE'RE AT THE LONELY MOUNTAIN." Stretching out the…

I'm not certain that the Devil's Advocate position was established when Thomas More was canonized- the process has come a long way over time.

HEATHERS! Love it.

maybe it's supposed to be dedicated to both, and the comma is separating the two dedications of the sculpture, riffing on the original dedication of the poem?

You have just sold me not merely on this expansion pack, but on Skyrim itself.

Nitpick- an oracle is not a person. An oracle is a prophecy. The Pythia gave oracles.

There's the zinger.

io9 has done a fantastic job of respectfully engaging in dialogue with religious ideas/ attitudes; the problem is that creationists do not do the same towards the scientific community.

When it's cold

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which would not be grammatically correct.

the whole pope thing: in a very specific circumstance the pope can declare something as infallible doctrine; this has only been done twice in history, and both times on points of theology that most people really wouldn't care about.

From the outset I thought it was a hilarious, wonderful column, but a little voice in the back of my head kept going "some guy made this...aren't you the least bit uncomfortable? It's not like your unpublished drafts are any better."

Yeah, books belong to their readers. Her book is better than she wants it to be.

(I say brave only because any article dealing with science and religion is going to upset a great percentage of your readers)

What a brave, excellently written, and extremely necessary article. Props to you io9 and Ms. Anders for promoting unity, goodwill, and a recognition of that all too important common ground of Wonder.