Is there a Young Earth Creationist in your life? If not, just wait. The civilized world is currently enjoying a good chuckle at the news that unprecedented thousands of American children are now enrolled in schools where they are taught that the world is 7,000 years old, that dinosaurs and humans once co-habitated, and that the Grand [...]
Yet another study came out over the weekend, in this case in the Friday release of the journal Science, that equated rational, analytic thinking with a decreased likelihood of religious belief. This comes after previous studies have equated high intelligence with liberalism and atheism, and conservative beliefs with a tendency toward doctrinaire rigidity. That last [...]
The nation’s largest-ever gathering of irreligious people, the Reason Rally, took place in Washington D.C. over the weekend, and it very nearly escaped popular notice. An unscientific survey of the media landscape suggests the Rally commanded only slightly more of the national attention span than Miami’s concurrent Ultra Music Festival, which is put on every [...]
You already know this: while earning your college degree was informative and pleasant enough, plenty of us head in a different direction. Or maybe the experience wasn’t so awesome or helpful, but we’re sticking, steadfast and stubborn, to what we set out for in the first place. Joshua Miller, the executive director and founder of [...]
Venezuela has been in the media lately: following the death of Hugo Chávez, his chosen successor, Nicolas Maduro, beat challenger Henrique Capriles in the current election for presidency. It was a miniscule margin of a win—about 50.7%–and as of this write-up, a contested verdict. But if you’re the average United Statesian, you are less aware [...]
