Not that long ago, I (like most people) thought that there was once a guy named Jesus, who was a 1st century cult leader and faith healing charlatan, and that his story was heavily embellished and exaggerated, blown out of all proportion -to become the legendary character on which all the various and conflicting denominations […]
Homo naledi
Science is supposed to be dispassionate, as part of being objective, but the media are quite the opposite. Every time paleontologists find a fossil with particular significance, reporters say it will cause us to rethink what we thought we knew about evolution. That’s what they said about Ardipithecus. That’s what they said about Sahelanthropus […]
You better believe it …or else
Someone recently asked me whether there was anywhere other than Revelations 22:18-19 that talks about having to believe the whole Bible in order to get into Heaven. Right there in the last chapter, it says not to add anything to the Bible nor take anything away from it. But there are several other places where […]
Weary of unwarranted Solispist Idealism
I readily admit that I don’t know philosophy, because I’m not interested in it, and that is exclusively because of this topic. The more I talk with solipsists, the less interesting philosophy is. We’ve had this conversation, and I was hoping to be done with it, because I’ve already given it more of my time […]
Take him to Detroit!
I think this was my first time in Michigan. All I knew about Detroit was what I’d seen in Kentucky Fried Movie, but there’s a good group there. Only 15 were expected to turn out to meet us tonight, but more than twice that showed up. The people there represented Detroit Atheists, Ann Arbor Atheists, […]
Living Science Videos
My wife, Lilandra is a secular activist like myself, advocating for improved education as I do, but she is also a science teacher and a curriculum specialist with the Next Generation Science Standards. One of the projects we do together is a series of classroom supplement science videos teaching biology at the middle school and […]
Philisophical empiricism vs metaphysical solipsism
In my previous post, as in the one before that, I criticized faith, as I always do. Someone always tries to rebut me, either by trying to say that faith isn’t really what it has always been consistently proven to be, or by projecting their greatest fault onto me by pretending that scientists are just […]
Religious faith IS “belief without evidence”
In my previous post, I criticized faith, as I always do, and some believer predictably accused me of misrepresenting what Christian/religious faith really is. Usually the argument is an attempt to equivocate or project their own faults onto the opposition, as if science requires faith too, and that scientists are therefore “just as bad” as […]
What do atheists think?
This is my first submission to the Patheos network, where I am told there is much better chance that my posts will be read by religious believers. Good, because that’s who I mean to reach. When I read this article about evangelist John Lennox, I meant to reply to him, but then I realized that […]
Loaded question
So I got the following email from a financial adviser in New Zealand: Hi. As you strike me as an honest and sincere authority in the atheist worldview, could you please help me by advising me: How can I be an intellectually honest atheist when it seems to me that atheism itself, logically demands that […]