Young-Earth creationist Werner Gitt rejects the Big Bang, Darwinism, and abiogenesis as junk science. He believes Jesus is Lord, we all have immortal souls, matter can’t create mind, and the production of information proves an eternal all-knowing god: Matter…
A nation of pussies
Earlier this year I was invited to speak to an ecumenical religious group about my book, Religion Refuted. The organizers promptly disinvited me on the basis that I might tell someone that their beliefs are wrong, which is apparently not…
Much ado about nothing
The Greek philosopher Parmenides (ca. 520–450 BCE) is famous for the dictum ex nihilo nihil fit (“from nothing, nothing comes”). Put another way, you can’t get something from nothing. Of course, Parmenides never encountered nothing. Nobody ever has. So, I…
Champions of inequality
How we treat one another matters. You probably know this intellectually. But you can really feel the truth of this statement deep in your gut if you’ve ever suffered the agony of rejection or if you have ever suffered the…
Pascal’s Wager
Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth-century polymath, a master of French prose who contributed to the advance of physics (especially hydraulics), laid the foundations for the modern theory of probability, discovered that air gets thinner as we ascend from Earth’s surface,…
Children’s right to education
Teachers in public school classrooms sometimes recite a Christian prayer or voice explicitly religious sentiments. Public school teachers aren’t supposed to do this. It violates the separation of church and state. But some teachers nonetheless view it as their religious…