1. Belief, God Genes, and the Findings of Science
(Religion/Atheism)

... in the supernatural. Dawkins explains this lucidly in The Selfish Gene, that the Universe we observe has precisely the characteristics that we would expect if there was no design, no purpose, no e...

2. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

...at is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the colour of their skin.” (Rudolf Steiner, “Farbe und Mensch...

3. An Atheist Manifesto
(Religion/Atheism)

...cted a little girl. Soon he will rape, torture and kill her. If an atrocity of this kind is not occurring at precisely this moment, it will happen in a few hours, or days at most. Such is the confiden...

4. Put a Little Science in Your Life
(Science/General)

...aithfully communicated to students independent of those details; in fact, those insights and discoveries are precisely the ones that can drive a young student to want to learn the details. We rob scie...

5. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...am proud to have written), had its stock banned from every Borders and Waldenbooks in the country. These are precisely the sorts of capitulations that we must avoid in the future. The lesson we shou...

6. What would Darwin have made of the Human Genome Project?
(Science/General)

...t there are many bits of the supposed junk DNA whose sequence is ultra-conserved throughout the vertebrates. Precisely why they are conserved remains unclear, but junk they are not. We also now know t...

7. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...weirdness of the quantum world (such as Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which states that the more precisely you know a particle’s position, the less precisely you know its speed, and ...

8. I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions
(Medicine/Self Help)

...l autobiographies, consumerism, and the preoccupation with addiction, abuse, and problem-solving techniques. Precisely how each group, tribe, or subculture is affected by these phenomena I leave to po...

9. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

...s been made that the particles and interactions we observe are not chosen at all randomly; instead, they are precisely tuned so as to allow for the existence of human life (or at least, complex struct...

10. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ld attribute to intelligence. Living organisms are too complex to be explained by any natural—or, more precisely, by any mindless—process. Instead, the design inherent in organisms can be ...