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Happy 4th! |
| From grandmother cells to tales of a great-grandfather a conversation with Horace Barlow [video, 1 hr. 11 min.] |
| Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code |
| Richard Dawkins and Craig Venter - The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews [video, 52 min.] |
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Is Scientology's Wall Cracking? by Kim Masters |
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| The Visible Universe |
| Video games develop behavioral benefits |
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The Dark Bible |
| The Bible describes
God as a wrathful, jealous and scatological. These quotes show the pornography,
atrocities, and questionable moral verses from the KJV Bible.
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Should we admire Jesus? |
| Does the character
Jesus in the Gospels merit the admiration that so many have bestowed upon
him? The Bible's own words throw doubt on the workable morality of the
alleged Jesus "the Christ."
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Did a historical Jesus exist? |
| Did a historical
Jesus actually live? All accounts of him come from hearsay writings and
no contemporary evidence exists.
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Martin Luther's dirty little book |
| Few Protestants
realize the venom and hatred that Martin Luther spewed toward the Jews.
In 1543, Luther wrote a book titled "On the Jews and their lies."
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Problems with Creationism |
| A refute to a proposed
Argument from Design from a Christian Creationist. Inconsistencies derived
from illogic, faith and a lack of evidence have produced an unworkable
hypothesis about a universe invented by a Designer (God).
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Hitler's Christianity |
| Hitler acted like Christians of the past and present. His actions agree with many God ordained horrors of the Bible. These articles use Hitler's own words to prove his Christianity and shows how the Churches supported Hitler's regime. | |
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Thomas Jefferson on Christianity |
| Although Jefferson
supported freedom of religion he did not believe in the superstitions
of Christianity. A few quotes from Thomas Jefferson on Christianity and
the Bible.
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The United States of America is not, in any sense founded on the Christian religion |
| Religious Right
groups have dishonestly attempted to rewrite history by claiming the U.S.
government derived from Christianity. This simply does not hold to the
historical evidence. Example: the Treaty of Tripoli explicitly reveals,
in a lawful document, the intentions of our Founding Fathers.
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History to consider |
| U.S. currency originally
never used the motto "IN GOD WE TRUST." The original Pledge
of Allegiance never mentioned "God." How the Christians stole
Christmas and Easter, and more. |
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Problems with Islam |
| Articles from ex-Muslims that show how the character of Islam involves violence, corruption, tyranny, poverty, and illiteracy. |
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The problems with beliefs |
| Does rational thinking
require beliefs at all? These articles suggest that one need not own any
beliefs to establish scientific facts, or to live a fulfilling moral life.
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List of common fallacies |
| A list and brief
description of the most common logical fallacies.
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Understanding E-Prime |
| English without
the use of essence words like "is" and "be" helps
clarify what we wish to explain. E-Prime provides a linguistic tool for
scientists and rationalists. |
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Freethinking about finances |
| If you wish to
live free, you will need the financial means to allow you to control your
life.
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A history of the knowledge of atoms |
| An epistemological
look at the models and theories about the atom that scientists have used
to explain and understand the working of the atomic nature of matter.
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Speculations: Does Light Exist Between Events? |
| An examination
of the claims of the existential nature of light.
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Death and Time Traveling |
If you want to get to the far future, you have to die. Speculations on time travel and how to do it. |
| Something to Think About: |  |
History aside, the almost universal opinion that one's own religious convictions are the reasoned outcome of a dispassionate evaluation of all the major alternatives is almost demonstrably false for humanity in general. If that really were the genesis of most people's convictions, then one would expect the major faiths to be distributed more or less randomly or evenly over the globe. But in fact they show a very strong tendency to cluster... which illustrates what we all suspected anyway: that social forces are the primary determinants of religious belief for people in general. To decide scientific questions by appeal to religious orthodoxy would therefore be to put social forces in place of empirical evidence... --Paul Churchland (Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind) |
