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Image: Victorian London street scene, by Frederick Smith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

“The Monster in the Sky”: Revisiting Atheism’s Creation Myth

The fact that Darwin’s evolutionary ideas could not be shown to be scientifically coherent remained for the uncritical a side issue. Read More ›
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The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Read More ›
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Interview: New Book Advances Skepticism as a Solution to Materialist Ideology

"The book's cover features Friedrich Nietzsche and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn holding opposite ends of a rope as they play tug of war for the soul of the West." Read More ›
Photo: Aurora Australis from the International Space Station, by NASA.

Cosmos, Chaos, and a Privileged Address in the Universe

What are we to make of this radical discontinuity between the Earth and the rest of the cosmos? Read More ›
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Image: "The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776," by John Trumbull, via GPA Photo Archive/Flickr (cropped).

Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights

Yuval Noah Harari deconstructs the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence. Read More ›
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Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, in the Cambridge University Library, by LegesRomanorum via Wikimedia Commons.

Learning Wonder from Denton’s Latest

Around 50 BC Titus Lucretius Carus wrote a long treatise against finding purpose in nature. Read More ›
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Photo: Teens help little old ladies cross the street, by klndonnelly via Flickr.

On Atheism and Morality, Study Confirms Voltaire?

Of the various questions raised in the theist/atheist debate, here's one that has, I believe, occasioned more witless commentary than any other. Read More ›
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Galileo, by Justus Sustermans, via Wikimedia Commons.

Erroneously, Evolutionists Recruit the Galileo Affair to Their Service

Writing here the other day, I looked at a new book co-authored by theistic evolutionist Dennis Venema. Read More ›

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