Similarities to Other Stories Unavoidable Contradictions The Logical Explanation…
How Many American’s View Atheism
What I mean by this title is that there are many American’s who are sympathetic…
Studying Religion and Atheism From Different Perspectives
I read in a review of Christopher Hitchens’s book God Is Not Great that…
The Real Reason Education Matters
I think a lot about education. What it is, how it’s best carried out, and…
Why Atheists Should Consider Discussing Religion With Their Moderately Religious Friends
This is an absolutely amazing post on perhaps the most important issue facing…
Atheism and the Substitution Phenomenon
Many atheists that I’ve known, including myself, exhibited an interesting…
No, Einstein Wasn’t Religious
I grow tired of hearing people ramble on about how religious Einstein actually…
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: The Key To Successful Civilization
It’s amazing what education can do for a civilization. So much pain and…
The Definition Of Atheism, And Why It Is NOT A Belief
One of the common arguments from Christians is that atheism is a belief analogous…
Free Will: The Necessary Delusion
One of the more interesting sub-debates associated with Atheism vs. Religion is…
More On Incentives
In my last post I spoke about how tracking incentives can lead to the answers…
America and the Satanist Next Door
If you live in America, you probably live within a few blocks of at least one…
The Ubermensch
This blog post points out some very interesting philisophical issues with Pixar’s…
The Best Argument I’ve Ever Heard For Why Someone Believes in God
A new friend and I had an extraordinarily productive and meaningful discussion…
Is Pre Big-Bang Agnosticism a Belief?
I’ve been having a conversation with a friend about whether atheism and…
Don’t Anticipate Greatness
Anticipation of greatness is a near guarantee of mediocrity. It sucks to have…
Being Wrong Helps Most
Being right is boring, not knowing is through-provoking, but being wrong is absolutely…
Certainty=Cluelessness
If you are not torn on complex moral issues, you are probably wrong. [ Apr 17,…
Humor Limits
When is it o.k. to draw humor from a subject or situation that is painful to others?…
Question Holes
The more questions you have floating around in your mind at any given time, the…
We Want What’s Transient, and Ignore What’s Already Ours
Why is it that nothing at all is of interest when you have 40 channels of T.V.…
Entropy
Entropy is utterly depressing. [ Nov 25, 1996 ] [ UPDATED November 2014 ] I remember…
Weaknesses
Understanding other peoples’ weaknesses doesn’t make your own any…
Intellectual Comfort
[ Nov 20, 1996 ] I must ensure that I do not, as I age, come to the conclusion…
