Epistemology

It's not a call for lower standards of evidence, but to evaluate women's claims by...

The first step on the escalator of reason is the most crucial one, but it's...

Many of our so-called thought leaders have forgotten a basic principle of rationality.

This isn't "political correctness" but a core principle of the scientific method

In the past couple of months, I've noticed a significant dropoff in page views on...

The person who denies an existence claim isn't always the one who should be believed.

The media that will neither report when a candidate is telling the truth, nor call...

Religious uniformity is inherently fragile.

Some rare, albeit possibly too late, glimmers of introspection from Republican pundits.

[Author's Note: I wrote this in late 2012. In light of recent developments, I thought...

Atlas Shrugged, part II, chapter I The last few industrialists of Colorado are disappearing, and...

I'm still reading Timothy Keller's book. He's very much a fan of presuppositional apologetics, like...

After the election last year, I wrote about the conservative epistemic bubble that left Republicans so utterly...

Yes, you get a Christmas post! Atheists don't take the day off just because people...

In an interview late last month, Republican senator Marco Rubio, who's widely viewed to be...

I've written some overarching thoughts about last week's presidential election, but I wanted to dwell...

This post was originally written for the "Because I Am An Atheist" series at The...

Most of us, especially if we follow the principles of critical thinking, go through life...

My friend Sarah Moglia has written an essay, titled Why I Don't Call Myself a...

I wanted to pull this exchange out of the comments, because I thought it was...

I may have mentioned that, at Skepticon IV, JT Eberhard gave a fantastic talk on...

My previous post, "The Blinding Fog of Religious Moderation", drew some criticism from people who...

So, you may have heard that Rhonda Byrne, author of The Secret, has a new...

The Language of God, Chapter 3 By B.J. Marshall Part 2 of this book, "The...

The Language of God, Chapter 2 By B.J. Marshall Collins starts off this chapter noting...

By B.J. Marshall In The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, Francis...

Earlier this month, Greta Christina published a piece on AlterNet, based on my essay "The...

The Case for a Creator, Closing Thoughts The theory of evolution not only explains and...

I've often used the terms "freethought" and "freethinker" on this blog, but I've never explicitly...

The world has seen and heard enough about the misery and destruction in Haiti this...