Journalist Ron Rosenbaum castigates atheists as believers in a religion of science. I argue that he’s wrong.
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Global warming cynics reject the science supporting climate change. Does that make them “deniers”? I explore the mechanics of denial to answer the question.
Many people can’t imagine life without God. But I have soundly rejected the concept. In honor of Christmas, here’s why.
David Hume said humans, in observing pain, experience that pain, too. Therefore, we want to alleviate the pain of other people, to ameliorate the suffering it causes within us. This empathy for our fellow humans constitutes the basis for treating them decently.
Hume’s best friend Adam Smith, in his 1759 work The Theory of Moral Sentiments, [...]
On the basis of what the American national media has covered most intensely recently, one would think the most pressing concerns of our country were the Michael Jackson trial and a missing teenager in Aruba. A short while before that, the most important issue of the United States, from the media’s perspective, was a vegetative [...]
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