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January 10, 2018
What It Means to Believe Women
It's not a call for lower standards of evidence, but to evaluate women's claims by...
October 2017
October 23, 2017
Dictators Hate Education
The first step on the escalator of reason is the most crucial one, but it's...
May 2017
May 31, 2017
Skeptic Magazine’s Impotent Attack on Gender Studies
Many of our so-called thought leaders have forgotten a basic principle of rationality.
February 2017
February 01, 2017
Science Is For Everyone
This isn't "political correctness" but a core principle of the scientific method
December 2016
December 02, 2016
Facebook’s Fake News Poisons Democracy
In the past couple of months, I've noticed a significant dropoff in page views on...
October 2016
October 21, 2016
Scott Adams Can’t See the Elephant
The person who denies an existence claim isn't always the one who should be believed.
September 2016
September 26, 2016
Tell You The Truth? Not Our Job!
The media that will neither report when a candidate is telling the truth, nor call...
August 2016
August 31, 2016
Does Religious Diversity Undermine Religion?
Religious uniformity is inherently fragile.
August 17, 2016
Conservatives Trapped in Their Own Bubble
Some rare, albeit possibly too late, glimmers of introspection from Republican pundits.
April 2016
April 27, 2016
Repost: The Republican Stupid-Party Spiral Dilemma
[Author's Note: I wrote this in late 2012. In light of recent developments, I thought...
April 18, 2014
Atlas Shrugged: Publish or Perish
Atlas Shrugged, part II, chapter I The last few industrialists of Colorado are disappearing, and...
November 2013
November 04, 2013
More Than the Sum of Our Senses
I'm still reading Timothy Keller's book. He's very much a fan of presuppositional apologetics, like...
January 2013
January 14, 2013
Pushing Deeper Into the Bubble
After the election last year, I wrote about the conservative epistemic bubble that left Republicans so utterly...
December 2012
December 25, 2012
Miracle on 34th Street: The Value of Empiricism
Yes, you get a Christmas post! Atheists don't take the day off just because people...
December 07, 2012
The Republican Stupid-Party Spiral Dilemma
In an interview late last month, Republican senator Marco Rubio, who's widely viewed to be...
November 2012
November 13, 2012
Piercing the Republican Epistemic Bubble
I've written some overarching thoughts about last week's presidential election, but I wanted to dwell...
July 2012
July 02, 2012
Because I’m An Atheist…
This post was originally written for the "Because I Am An Atheist" series at The...
June 2012
June 06, 2012
Free-Floating Certainties
Most of us, especially if we follow the principles of critical thinking, go through life...
May 2012
May 02, 2012
Why I Identify as a Skeptic
My friend Sarah Moglia has written an essay, titled Why I Don't Call Myself a...
March 2012
March 02, 2012
Is There Progress in Religion?
I wanted to pull this exchange out of the comments, because I thought it was...
December 2011
December 02, 2011
The Purview of Skepticism
I may have mentioned that, at Skepticon IV, JT Eberhard gave a fantastic talk on...
October 2011
October 19, 2011
Worshipping the Holy Hair Dryer
My previous post, "The Blinding Fog of Religious Moderation", drew some criticism from people who...
October 29, 2010
How to Think Critically XI: The Null Hypothesis
So, you may have heard that Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, has a new...
September 2010
September 19, 2010
The Language of God: Prelude to Cosmology
The Language of God, Chapter 3 By B.J. Marshall Part 2 of this book, "The...
August 2010
August 23, 2010
The Language of God: A Doubtful Belief
The Language of God, Chapter 2 By B.J. Marshall Collins starts off this chapter noting...
August 07, 2010
The Language of God: And So It Begins
By B.J. Marshall In The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, Francis...
July 2010
July 24, 2010
Two Responses to the Theist’s Guide
Earlier this month, Greta Christina published a piece on AlterNet, based on my essay "The...
July 12, 2010
The Case for a Creator: Redefining Science
The Case for a Creator, Closing Thoughts The theory of evolution not only explains and...
February 2010
February 26, 2010
What Is Freethought?
I've often used the terms "freethought" and "freethinker" on this blog, but I've never explicitly...
January 2010
January 25, 2010
The Poisoned Cup of Theodicy
The world has seen and heard enough about the misery and destruction in Haiti this...
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