Religious people seem to effortlessly navigate between two modes; reality-based, fact based thinking, and mystical spiritual religious thinking. And the latter is never refuted by the former. For example. One often hears from the pulpit, references to Adam as the first man, and Noah, with his story. These are accepted in the believer’s mind without […]
Read MoreMany of religion’s teachings are palliative — and they don’t hide it. It’s one example of religion giving people what they want.
Read MoreDoes God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions Some insightful and straight forward answers to common questions From the WSJ Blog: blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/22/does-god-exist-ricky-gervais-takes-your-questions/ Excerpt: Q: In your piece you write, that “Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesn’t know.” In fact, mainstream scientific thought has sometimes been wrong, and […]
Read MoreEasy to understand evidence for a common ape-like human/chimp ancestor. One of thousands of collaborating pieces of evidence, but this one is very conceptual. Whip it out anytime a creationist starts preaching. …from the human genome, we can see our origin. <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/dK3O6KYPmEw” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>
Read MoreChristopher Hitchens and Dinesh D’Souza at Macky Auditorium, CU Boulder, January 26, 2009 “…I can assert; i can ask you to consider that the person in charge of this is … very incompetent, very tinkering, very capricious, or very very cruel. I think that our moralities are innate, our ethics are innate to us, as […]
Read Morei heard on tv once, the personal-financial pundit Susan Orman say to a person, “You can’t do that.” …speaking to someone about their desire/choice to give donations to a deserving organization. Her point was (to this person) if you don’t have the means, if you aren’t earning enough to care for yourself, then you can’t […]
Read MoreI have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that God is a fabrication of man. The bad news is that it will cost you to learn that this good news is true. …(Cost you time, study, some friends, family associations, labor to un-learn and then to acquire true principles of […]
Read MoreAs I ponder a world without superstition, and what would be required for a free society to arrive at such a state, I always get stuck on one problem: ignorance is perennial. In other words, every generation must become educated. In a free society, people can choose to stay ignorant of science and history. Learning […]
Read More1. It literally happened as stated in the Bible. All humankind was killed except for Noah and his companions on the ark. 1. It literally happened around 2000 B.C. 1. It is fiction, meant to be didactic. (to teach) 1. It is a story that is improbable, given modern knowledge. – – – Note: If […]
Read More1. Yes; >> see BRANCH(Yes) 1. No; >> see BRANCH(No) BRANCH(Yes) 1. Experience 1. Personal spiritual witness 1. Answer to prayer 1. Dream or a vision 1. My parents’ teachings 1. Influences of my social group / my culture. BRANCH(No) BRANCH (Yes) + BRANCH(NO) 1. Education 1. Study of History 1. Satan or Satan’s influence […]
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