This is the fourth in a new series of posts on Science and Philosophy, featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of science. Previous interviews featured Bas van Fraassen, ...
Church attendance has been steadily falling in the U.S. and other developed countries for decades, causing a rise in people who tell pollsters that they are unaffiliated with any organized faith.
Many atheists think that their atheism is the product of rational thinking. They use arguments such as "I don't believe in God, I believe in science" to explain that evidence and logic, rather than ...
Many atheists think that their atheism is the product of rational thinking. They use arguments such as “I don’t believe in God, I believe in science” to explain that evidence and logic, rather than ...
The great 17th-century philosopher Gottfried Leibniz posed what is perhaps the most basic of all philosophical questions when he asked why there is something rather than nothing when it would have ...
Critical thinking is a good thing! (B. Dehler) The Center for Philosophical Naturalism is hosting a discussion group in Beaverton on the night of Wed. 2-18-15 to discuss whether Christian beliefs harm ...
Chief Editor of RealClearScience, Steven Ross Pomeroy, has previously argued that atheism — which he and Carl Sagan define as “certain[ty] that God does not exist” — is unscientific. His claim was in ...
You can’t be on Twitter these days without being bombarded with atheistic smugness. You know what I mean. People who can’t just profess that they don’t believe in God — they have to taunt religious ...
What is the atheist moral code? We all know what the Christian and Jewish moral codes ask of its adherents. We also know that all of the evil committed by Jews and Christians was the result of ...
This is the fourth in a new series of posts on Science and Philosophy, featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of science. Previous interviews featured Bas van Fraassen, ...