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As announced earlier I’m planning on reviewing every chapter in the new anthology on the problem of suffering titled, God and Evil: The Case for God i […]

It’s hard not to feel a little sad for God (or gods, if you like). There was a time when almost all of the humans believed God was everywhere and resp […]

Here’s the famous leftist on our current economic crisis and the downsides of capitalism.I present the video as food for thought, I don’t necessarily […]

 Bio: By way of background, I am a mycologist, taxonomy geek, naturalist, and microscope tech from the San Francisco Bay Area. After earning an underg […]

In the first part of this two-part series, I looked at Marshall’s introduction. In this second part I’m going to continue to critique David Marshall’s […]

  William Lane Craig and James Sinclair’s chapter on the Kalam Cosmological Argument in the Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology contains a couple […]

So Randal has responded to my response to Part 1 of his response to my review of his book. But I have not yet had the chance to respond to his Part 2 […]

Yesterday, the Pope made the news again by calling for an end to the “cult of money.” This Pope is very different from the last Pope in that he actual […]

Brave Hero Radio was one of the, if not the only, radio shows reporting live from the  Women in Secularism 2 conference in Washington D.C. Listen to t […]

  Pop quiz, people.  Answers at the bottom of the page. We must never do experiments to test God’s words. Write yes for the questions that would be al […]

  Right now there’s a bit of drama going on related to a recent conference. I don’t really want to discuss that here, since it seems everything that c […]

For those of us not enslaved by dedication to religious dogma, the religious “logic” is at times hard to comprehend. The defense of this (British) wom […]

Jacob Mchangama’s excellent short video on religion and free speech is here. http://freetochoose.tv/program.php?id=collision&type=qt […]

  Vikram Gandhi is an actor. He became “Kumare” to become a “yogalebrity” with an American following. He spoke with an Indian accent, grew his hair lo […]

Once you start down this path, it’s hard to stop.   Courtesy of the scientific minds at the National Review:    The unfertilized egg is not turned int […]

Hate to admit it, but I grew up listening to Christian rock. Loads of it, almost always with a discernible spiritual or philosophical message. Never t […]

As mentioned previously, every fall I teach a course called “Science vs Pseudoscience” that focuses on teaching students how to think critically about […]

Ronald Lindsay, president of CFI, on privilege: I’m talking about the situation where the concept of privilege is used to try to silence others, as a […]

Today at 4PM, the world lost something truly amazing.  Today, my cat, Nimitz, had to be put to sleep.  He was eighteen years old and lived a life to b […]

Death should not be trivialised, so it’s understandable that some of us are wary of legislation that allows for assisted suicide. But if it’s the dign […]

I accompanied my wife to her church for Easter service today, mainly to watch our three kids sing. They were cute. However, the sermon was horrible. T […]

David Quinn has long argued that marriage should have special status because it contains something special, and that special quality is its benefits t […]

It’s all good. Life is good. Everything happens for a reason. I get what’s behind these slogans.  Life is sometimes, even often, good and that’s a gre […]

I’m finding myself on a blog break at the moment. I came back from Conflux 9 with a big pile of work to deal with, not least checking the page proofs […]