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In the most recent June/July issue of Free Inquiry magazine, Robert Price congratulates Baker Books for publishing our book, saying, “It represents a […]

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 […]

  About a month ago, New Zealand legalised same sex marriage, becoming the 13th country to do so.  But it didn’t take Julia Gillard, Australian prime […]

Here is a good talk from Richard Carrier as it sets out his thesis from start to finish and it is recent. See what you think. Are you a mythicist? Are […]

Bravo to Arizona State Representative Juan Mendez for using his “opening prayer” to give a secular humanist prayer. That’s right, when politicians pus […]

In my previous piece, I linked a video interview I had with Robert O’Hara of A Voice For Men. Some have wondered what my thoughts concerning A Voice F […]

  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 […]

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Here’s an endnote I am adding to a chapter I am contributing to the upcoming Handbook on Humanism (edited by AC Grayling and Andrew Copson [Wiley Blac […]

  I still hear people yammering about The Secret, law of attraction, and such. Drives me nuts. Ah, but Dave Chappelle nails it with an unforgiving pun […]

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 […]

Probably you’ve already seen or heard of this glorious accidental vignette, in which our friend Rebecca drops the A-bomb on Wolf Blitzer. That’s right […]

Earlier today, Moore and south Oklahoma City were hit with an absolutely devastating tornado that appears as if it will eclipse the infamous May 3rd, […]

Pope Francis has called for an ‘ethical’ reform to the financial system: Pope Francis has hit out at unbridled capitalism and the “cult of money”, cal […]

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 […]

Dennett's new book "Intuition pumps" contains many useful tips for improving our thinking, including using Rapoport's rules as the […]

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 […]