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April 2006

April 03, 2006
What does it mean to make a choice? This question is at the heart of...
April 02, 2006
A recurring topic of debate among atheists is just how much respect we should pay...
April 01, 2006
Clearly, what is immaterial in the human mind can influence the physical world, or our...

March 2006

March 31, 2006
The forces of theocracy are on the march, and Daylight Atheism is keeping a close...
March 30, 2006
A new essay, "Into the Clear Air", has been posted on Ebon Musings. The article...
March 30, 2006
For most of human history, philosophers have believed that only the possession of an immaterial...
March 29, 2006
Much mention has been made lately of a recent Pew Research Center study showing that...
March 28, 2006
Over the ages, the question of whether we have free will has engaged, confronted, and...
March 26, 2006
In a previous post, I defended the conclusion that atheists should, under certain circumstances, evangelize...
March 24, 2006
Turn on the TV, turn to the back pages of a newspaper, or peruse the...
March 23, 2006
My post yesterday, "The Quiet Revolution", discussed some of the positive ways in which atheists...
March 22, 2006
In a previous post in the Garden, "An Inspiring Story", I discussed two ways in...
March 20, 2006
It is a perennial question, among atheists, of whether we should evangelize in favor of...
March 18, 2006
It was in late December of last year that I visited St. Patrick's Cathedral in...
March 16, 2006
The recent fiasco over the cartoons of Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper shows that...
March 14, 2006
One of my favorite short-story authors is the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges. Many of...
March 12, 2006
The United States of America is populated overwhelmingly by Christians. Poll after poll shows that...
March 10, 2006
Has anyone else ever noticed that, as far as theists are concerned, atheists just can't...
March 08, 2006
(Note: This post was written for Blog Against Sexism Day.) One of the greatest enemies...
March 07, 2006
The previous post in the Observatory, "On Presuppositions", discussed a few of the many ways...
March 06, 2006
Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars has drawn my attention to a story...
March 04, 2006
There has been considerable buzz in the blogosphere lately about a bill pending in Missouri...
March 03, 2006
Daniel Dennett is one of my favorite philosophers. Few write with his clarity or liveliness,...
March 01, 2006
One of the most fundamental differences between atheism and religion is that a religion is,...

February 2006

February 27, 2006
Malcolm Gladwell. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Little, Brown and Company: New York,...
February 26, 2006
One of the questions I am frequently asked is how I came to be an...
February 25, 2006
John Loftus of the blog Debunking Christianity has very kindly linked to my recent post,...
February 24, 2006
A Response to John Searle's Chinese Room Analogy John Searle. "Minds, Brains, and Programs." Behavioral...
February 23, 2006
Sheryl Kay. "Ex-minister walks atheist path." The St. Petersburg Times, February 17, 2006. His message...
February 21, 2006
Michael Luo. "Reform Jews Hope to Unmix Mixed Marriages." The New York Times, February 12,...
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