1 Healthy Question: If God Created the Universe, Who Created God?
Reading Time: 13 minutes A timeless question that brilliant people have answered. Bonus discussion on actual infinites within spacetime.
Urbanization Is Associated with Increased Levels of Mental Illness
Reading Time: 2 minutes Urbanization is associated with increased levels of mental illness, but it’s not yet clear why. It has been suggested that decreased nature experience may help to explain the link between urbanization and mental illness. One mechanism [toward increased mental illness—Luke] might be the impact of nature exposure on rumination, a maladaptive…
Creeping Determinism Gets You to Beat Yourself Up
Reading Time: < 1 minute You kick yourself for making that dumb decision! What were you thinking? The team tried a play that just didn’t work—gah! Why’d they blow it? Introspection is important, but there’s a subtle, insidious error that can slither into our thinking—creeping determinism. It’s a phenomenon where, over time, we begin to…
Do You Believe in Good and Evil?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you believe in good and evil? Professor Michael Ruse, a noted atheist and philosopher of science, has correctly noted what morality is in a world without God. In “The Darwinian Paradigm,” he noted: “Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth. Considered as…
Christian Opportunity Paralysis
Reading Time: 2 minutes Scientifically, humans are happier when they have shorter menus. Long menus present something called “opportunity paralysis” (also called “option paralysis,” “analysis paralysis,” etc.), which agonizes us. “So many choices…what if I make the wrong one?” The old covenant was a system of rules and regulations, written in stone for all…
Loving with Heart, Soul, and Mind—What Does It Mean?
Reading Time: 2 minutes What does it mean to love with the heart, soul, and mind? How does the mind relate to the brain? What does science teach us?
“Why Do Christians Have to Believe in Fairy Tales?” Laments Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in Free Will
Reading Time: 2 minutes “You dummies,” he added. “You can do what you decide to do, but you cannot decide what you will decide to do!” He quickly asked an aide if he’d used a double-double single negative-positive and if his last statement made any sense whatsoever.
The Atheist’s Guide to Reality
Reading Time: < 1 minute There is no truth. You can take that to the bank.