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Calvin the Moth as He Relates to Will Provine

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Calvin the Moth as He Relates to Will Provine

Calvin the Moth as He Relates to Will Provine

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesYue Little grew a caterpillar into a pure, white moth, which she named Calvin. When I witness such things, imagining that somehow, through a blind process chock-full of errors, an organism arose which changes from a many-legged caterpillar into a two-winged creature of flight, is so preposterous as to be something out of a fairy tale. 

Idiots in Hateful Sky-Daddy Cult Once Again Giving Free Disaster Relief to Poor People

Idiots in Hateful Sky-Daddy Cult Once Again Giving Free Disaster Relief to Poor People

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDeranged religious cultists are once again spreading their intolerance and bigotry abroad.

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Live Not by Lies: Therapeutic Destruction of Meaning

Live Not by Lies: Therapeutic Destruction of Meaning

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Reading Time: 6 minutesIn an age that seeks to force you into mental compliance, because surely you alone are left, do not give in, no matter how the temptation is packaged. Live Not by Lies.

Pedophilia and Atheism

Pedophilia and Atheism

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Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the stranger things about atheism is that pedophilia isn’t a choice under it. Why? Because the laws of cause and effect outside of the head don’t stop in the inside of the head.

The 7 Stages of All Great Nations: End-Stage Guilt

The 7 Stages of All Great Nations: End-Stage Guilt

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Reading Time: 10 minutesKings and nations share one thing in common: they rise to power, and then they die. In this post I examine the 7 stages of all great nations, the deadliness of decadence and the self-loathing it leads to, as well as what Christians need to do.

Libertarian Atheist Preparing Sovereign-Citizen Defense Just in Case

Libertarian Atheist Preparing Sovereign-Citizen Defense Just in Case

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMark Nelson knows that there’s no God, but he’s been feverishly rooting through his copy of Black’s Law Dictionary “just in case.”

Is it More Logical to Say that the Universe Arose from Nothing?

Is it More Logical to Say that the Universe Arose from Nothing?

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Reading Time: 3 minutesIs it more logical to say that the universe arose from nothing? Also, advice on how to kiss your wife on your anniversary.

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An Infinite Past is Impossible in Our Universe

An Infinite Past is Impossible in Our Universe

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Reading Time: 2 minutesA thought experiment on the beginning of the universe. Open if you like dominoes. (Not the pizza.)

Can You Know That Your Life Isn’t Just a Simulation?

Can You Know That Your Life Isn’t Just a Simulation?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes“We must distinguish between truth, which is objective and absolute, and certainty, which is subjective.” —Popper

But is there a difference between knowledge and certainty?

You Are Not Responsible for Your Thoughts

You Are Not Responsible for Your Thoughts

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Reading Time: 3 minutes“You are no more responsible for the state of your brain in this moment than you are for your height…thoughts simply arise in the mind. But the idea that we as conscious beings are…responsible for the characters of our minds, simply can’t be mapped onto reality.”

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Atheism and Rape

Atheism and Rape

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDr. Michael Ruse has an excellent piece called, “Is Rape Wrong on Andromeda: An Introduction to Extraterrestrial Evolution, Science, and Morality.” He goes through a thought experiment utilizing his own point of view.  Let’s say that we start human evolution over again. Rewind it to the beginning and start out anew. Through randomization, a very different creature might evolve with different values and duties. Perhaps they act like bees, and…

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Do You Believe in Good and Evil?

Do You Believe in Good and Evil?

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDo 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 a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. I appreciate that when somebody says, “Love…

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Loving with Heart, Soul, and Mind—What Does It Mean?

Loving with Heart, Soul, and Mind—What Does It Mean?

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Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat 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

“Why Do Christians Have to Believe in Fairy Tales?” Laments Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in Free Will

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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.

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The Atheist’s Guide to Reality

The Atheist’s Guide to Reality

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere is no truth. You can take that to the bank.

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“Faith is One of the World’s Great Evils,” Declares Man Who Does Not Believe in Evil

“Faith is One of the World’s Great Evils,” Declares Man Who Does Not Believe in Evil

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Reading Time: 3 minutesFinally some good news in this world! In a stunning rebuke of all faiths everywhere, but especially of the really stupid ones, like Christianity, Professor Richard Dawkins has delivered a killing blow.

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Scientists and Atheism

Scientists and Atheism

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2009, the Pew Research group surveyed the American Association for the Advancement of Science with the goal of ascertaining levels of belief in God or a transcendent “spirit.” Surprisingly, 51% of scientists believed in some type of higher spirit or God, while 41% didn’t believe that such existed. Perhaps more surprisingly, in 1914, a similar survey was conducted among scientists by psychologist James Lueba. Of 1000 American scientists in…

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Atheism in Regards to Free Will and Personal Identity

Atheism in Regards to Free Will and Personal Identity

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Reading Time: < 1 minute “You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.” —Dr. Francis Crick, Human Genome Project  It’s this “no more than” that is important, I think. Under this view atheistic worldview, you don’t exist in a meaningful sense at the level of personal…

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