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Skepticism – You’re Doing It Wrong.
Are there people in your life whose skepticism switch seems to be jammed in reverse?
Take evolution, for example. The evidence is nothing if not completely overwhelming. We have libraries full of peer-reviewed scientific papers and museums full of a supporting fossil record. The explanatory power of evolution – which, as a scientific theory, is its [...]
Encounters with a Nutcase
My friend Dave is an outspoken atheist and lived in Indy. He out this hilarious email last night to a bunch of friends, and gave me permission to share it with you:
About 2am last night I heard two guys arguing vehemently outside one of the buildings of my apartment complex.
Obviously I walked outside and became [...]
We Are The People
[ December 21, 2008; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I just finished the book, We Are The People: Voices from the other side of American history. This book is a compilation of essays, excerpts, letters and oral histories as told by ordinary and extraordinary people. Have you ever wanted to hear first hand what it’s like to try and live on minimum wage, be [...]
The Future of FreeThought
I have spent the last few days putting my thoughts to digital paper but they weren’t really my thoughts. They were thoughts that I only think are mine but really have come about from reading Susan Jacoby’s Freethinkers, A History of American Secularism. In my first post on the matter I mentioned how profoundly this [...]
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