By now, everyone knows about the devastating tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma on Monday, May 20th. This morning, on NBC's Today Show, I heard a touching story about a woman who was in labor when the tornado hit Moore Medical Center. After the chaos, [Shayla] Taylor said she heard not the freight train sound… Continue reading Miracles in Moore, OK
Category: Agnosticism
Religious Freedom in a Secular Society
A couple of weeks ago, there was a story in the news about a Texas high school track team that was disqualified from the state meet because one of their athletes pointed toward heaven after doing particularly well in his qualifying run. Apparently, it broke their rule against "excessive celebration." Despite being an atheist, I… Continue reading Religious Freedom in a Secular Society
Last Night on Colbert — AC Grayling: The Case for Humanism
Caught this last night and really enjoyed the interview (conducted in typical Colbert fashion). I'll definitely pick up this book, especially as it relates to some of the morality discussions we've been having on this blog lately. I had trouble embedding the video, so here's the link: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/425048/april-03-2013/a-c--grayling?xrs=share_copy
God Made Us This Way — It’s Only Reasonable He’d Be Angry About It
The blog Thomisic Bent has been doing a series lately on why it was perfectly okay for God to command the Israelites to slaughter entire ethnic groups in the Old Testament, even down to the women and children. I've felt obliged to comment on all of them, because toward the end of my time as… Continue reading God Made Us This Way — It’s Only Reasonable He’d Be Angry About It
Atheists Need to Fact-Check Better (Reblog)
Ran across this post over at The Musings of Thomas Verenna, and I think he makes a great point. He states that the image below is something that's going around Facebook right now, and what it claims is simply incorrect. If you'd like to see all the reasons why he finds fault with this image,… Continue reading Atheists Need to Fact-Check Better (Reblog)
The Ultimate Blasphemy
There's a blog I read from time to time called Thomistic Bent. The latest post is a short video that tries to give a good reason for why the Bible says God commanded the Israelites to commit genocide against the Canaanites. The reasoning of this explanation is almost as perverse as the stories themselves. As… Continue reading The Ultimate Blasphemy
The Evidence for Evolution Part 2
You can find the first post in this series here. Time Before we can really dig in (if you'll forgive the pun) to what the fossils tell us, we need to establish a timeline. Many (most?) detractors of evolution maintain that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, because if you take the Bible… Continue reading The Evidence for Evolution Part 2
3 Questions for Atheists — 3rd Question
The first post in this series is here. Here's the 3rd of unkleE's questions: 3. You live your life with some sense of purpose. But Richard Dawkins assures us that that purpose is illusory and the universe shows us just blind pitiless indifference, Professor William Provine, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, confidently asserts that… Continue reading 3 Questions for Atheists — 3rd Question
3 Questions for Atheists — 2nd Question
If you haven't read the first post, you can find it here. Otherwise, I'll assume we're all on the same page. Here's question 2: 2. You behave ethically. I suggest that is because you were brought up christian. Most atheists choose to behave reasonably ethically, but why? Are some things really right and wrong, if… Continue reading 3 Questions for Atheists — 2nd Question
3 Questions for Atheists — 1st Question
A week or two ago, friend and fellow blogger unkleE posed some questions to atheists, and instead of getting into them in that thread, I decided to address them here. 1. Do humans have choice to change the course of events? If so, how does it work in a physicalist universe? If not, who is… Continue reading 3 Questions for Atheists — 1st Question
Finding Truth 