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This is how I lost my faith: Science helped, yes — but finally I accepted the holy texts were written by man
I thought religion and sacred texts held absolute truth handed down from God. I was so powerfully wrong
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Building Bridges Between Faith and Doubt
Half a century ago, most people in your community had roughly the same background and they probably saw eye-to-eye on big things even if they often feuded over the little things. The character of our disagreements was different, less bitter, less desperate. There’s an edge to our quarrels today that suggests people feel at risk in a way we didn’t feel before, as if we fear our core indentities are being threatened.
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Is Richard Dawkins destroying his reputation?
The scientist and bestselling writer has become the face of a new crusading atheism. But even his closest allies worry that his online provocations do more harm than good
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Why have we stopped seeing UFOs in the skies?
Ghost and UFO sightings are down. Psychics are in decline. Are we more discerning now, or just afraid to trust anything?
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Prelude to a Robot Uprising
Technology Begets Technology. I’ve been staring at this banner at the DARPA Robotics Challenge for what feels like a solid minute, trying to figure out what the hell it means...
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Giving Ghost App Ghosts a Face and Name
May 14th 2014 a woman by the name of Laura Harrison posted a photo of what she claimed her daughter's boyfriend took a picture the night her daughter was going to have their baby. Suddenly, June of 2015 the photo has gone viral as a "great catch". For me, it was immediately obvious that this was a ghost app...
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Ritual Killing And Skepticism In Zambia
Zambia has just recorded its "first case" of albino killing. Suspected ritualists butchered a 37 year old albino woman in the eastern district of Lu.
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Tales from the eBay Crypt
On eBay, do a search for “haunted” and you’ll get dozens of dolls, boxes, crystals, Ouija boards, and other pieces of regular-looking furniture that contain a little something extra special inside of them. These items are hawked by a slew of sellers, from full-fledged businesses that specialize in only selling ghost-enhanced artifacts, to regular folks who just want Uncle Wally’s old stuffed animal out of the house.
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A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne
Hugh Aldersey-Williams takes a tour through Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a work which sees one of the 17th-century's greatest writers stylishly debunk all manner of myths, in particular those relating to the world of animals.
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The Attack on Truth
We are entering an age of willful ignorance. By Lee McIntyre.
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The Admiral of the String Theory War
After a decade, Peter Woit still thinks string theory is a gory mess.
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Do We Need to Rewrite General Relativity?
General relativity, the theory of gravity Albert Einstein published 100 years ago, is one of the most successful theories we have. It has passed every experimental test; every observation from astronomy is consistent with its predictions.... Yet most researchers think general relativity is wrong.
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Hooking up: zapping your brain
Meet the scientists and DIY enthusiasts firing electricity to their brains to see what happens next. By Lucy Jones.
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The Dick Delusion
I’ve been getting slapped upside the head with this “dick” meme that’s roaring through the skeptic community lately, largely because it seems that any time someone makes a generic criticism of rude, abrasive, confrontational critics of foolishness, the audience all thinks of the life-size poster of PZ Myers they’ve got hanging on their bedroom door…
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Doc Says Anti-Vaxxers Are Treated Like Jews in Nazi Germany
With the exception of actual catastrophic mass killings, it’s a really terrible idea to compare anything to the Holocaust. That anyone would lack the common sense or decency to need reminding of this is truly astonishing. And yet, someone needs to tell Dr. Bob Sears.
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Atheism and the "Shut Up, That's Why" Arguments
There’s something I’ve been noticing lately in theists’ arguments against atheists. When you start paying attention, you notice how many of them aren’t really arguments. And no, I’m not even talking about the “I feel it in my heart” or “‘Cause the Bible tells me so” non-arguments. I’m talking about the “Shut up, that’s why” arguments. I’m talking about the arguments that are meant to stop the discussion entirely.
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Return of Electro-Cures Exposes Psychiatry’s Weakness
TMS and other ‘electro-cures’ for depression are becoming popular in spite of limited demonstrated effectiveness
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The Tyranny of Physicalism: You’re Either a God or a Goofball
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination” - John Lennon
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The Curse of the Pixar Universe
For all the cleverness of “Inside Out,” I was jolted from the start by its deformation of children and of mental life. By Richard Brody.
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The Theist’s Guide to Converting Atheists
Thus, in the spirit of proving that atheists’ minds are not closed, I’ve assembled below a list of everything I can think of that I would accept as proof that a given religion is true. Also included are things that I would accept as circumstantial evidence of a particular religion’s truth and things that would not be acceptable to me as proof of anything. While I do not claim to speak for all atheists...
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