I think this was my first time in Michigan. All I knew about Detroit was what I’d seen in Kentucky Fried Movie, but there’s a good group there. Only 15 were expected to turn out to meet us tonight, but more than twice that showed up. The people there represented Detroit Atheists, Ann Arbor Atheists, […]
Living Science Videos
My wife, Lilandra is a secular activist like myself, advocating for improved education as I do, but she is also a science teacher and a curriculum specialist with the Next Generation Science Standards. One of the projects we do together is a series of classroom supplement science videos teaching biology at the middle school and […]
Philisophical empiricism vs metaphysical solipsism
In my previous post, as in the one before that, I criticized faith, as I always do. Someone always tries to rebut me, either by trying to say that faith isn’t really what it has always been consistently proven to be, or by projecting their greatest fault onto me by pretending that scientists are just […]
New Texas textbooks a bit light on historical facts
Although many concerned citizens, including Aron and me,[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RylrkgvtcZY[/youtube] testified in protest to certain claims like the theocratic dictator Moses having influenced the American system of government, Texas students will now learn that, and also about what an exceptional snowflake America is. It could have been worse had people not stepped in to remind the Texas State […]
Religious faith IS “belief without evidence”
In my previous post, I criticized faith, as I always do, and some believer predictably accused me of misrepresenting what Christian/religious faith really is. Usually the argument is an attempt to equivocate or project their own faults onto the opposition, as if science requires faith too, and that scientists are therefore “just as bad” as […]
What do atheists think?
This is my first submission to the Patheos network, where I am told there is much better chance that my posts will be read by religious believers. Good, because that’s who I mean to reach. When I read this article about evangelist John Lennox, I meant to reply to him, but then I realized that […]
Loaded question
So I got the following email from a financial adviser in New Zealand: Hi. As you strike me as an honest and sincere authority in the atheist worldview, could you please help me by advising me: How can I be an intellectually honest atheist when it seems to me that atheism itself, logically demands that […]
CNN: Chattanooga Tennessee shooting today possible “Domestic Terrorism”
It is some progress that it is being correctly identified as domestic terrorism rather than a deranged gunman, although the situation is grim. 4 Marines and the shooter are dead. At least one of the official in the video of Mayor Andy Berke’s press conference in the feed on the article, is saying it is […]
Monster on Sunday
There’s a new hard rocking atheist band called Monster on Sunday. On Friday, August 7th at 7:00pm, they’ll be at Ramona Mainstage with my friends, recording artist Shelly Segal and comedian Steve Hill. Seth Andrews told me he saw the band live in their home town of San Diego, and said they were amazing. Steve […]
The Purple and Blue People of Texas
Someone in Scotland was asking me, “We have all heard that Texas is a Minority Majority state, and that it is going purple then why are you still having problems with theocratic legislation?” (Paraphrasing it was a while ago) First this: people in Scotland know many more details about our state’s politics than we do […]