Comment Policy 2.0
There has been a sharp increase in the amount of comments lately. This makes me very happy, and I hope it continues. It all seemed like a good time to […]
September 2011
Imagine no religion
I have now been imagining no religion…or at least dreaming of it for 500 blog posts. Who would have thought I could pull that off?
I can’t believe it’s been 10 years
On July 9, 2001 the other members of my senior class and I left Milo Adventist Academy and traveled about 15 miles into the mountains for a week of wilderness […]
An Atheist Alter Call
Growing up in the Adventist church I hated alter calls. They weren’t all that common, but each and every time they were little more than a manipulative move into guilting […]
What would Jesus do?
Wouldn’t it be nice if more Christians actually did what Jesus said? In case you’re not convinced, I’ll let him do most of the talking. Let’s start with oaths. Jesus […]
What computers say when we’re not around
For a while now programmers have been trying to develop chatbots that can fool people into thinking their human. They’ve gotten pretty good, but in the competitions the judges can […]
Thursday Question – Is naturalism justified?
I will again be responding to an excerpt from an email from my old college buddy “Bill.” The excerpt is printed without further editing, so please excuse the grammatical errors. […]
Gnosticism Part 3: The destruction of a heresy
By the fourth century, Gnosticism was on the decline. Libertine Gnosticism was always a very minor view point, even among Gnostic circles, likely due to people having a hard time […]
Tuesday Science News – stem cell conservation, jumping genes, lunar pizza, and more!
Scientists have created stem sells from the skin of a northern white rhino, a species that may now be extinct in the wild, and the drill, an endangered African monkey. […]
Not again
I hate to bring this up again, but then again, I also wish it hadn’t happened again… Over the last two and a half months I’ve had more opportunities to […]