George Neumayr gives a post mortem (should we say a post vitam ?) on the Pope's visit to England: In World War II, Great Britain surviv...

Many Protestant Christians talk about the doctrine of sola Scriptura to mean the belief that the Bible alone is the source of knowledge. B...

Marcelo Gleiser, a professor of natural philosophy, physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College--and apparently no theist himself, argues tha...

President Obama wants to improve education in America by extending the school year, which is sort of like improving a bad recipe by adding ...

It's Banned Books Week again: You know, the week where we talk about all of the books religious parents have objected to in schools, bu...

One of the frequent commenters on this blog has been pestering me for an answer to one of his questions that resulted from my post on Steph...

Biologist Jerry Coyne expresses his extreme discomfort that National Institutes for Health director Francis Collins is praying for famed a...

The next time you hear the latest news on some government pension plan that is facing a multi-million dollar shortfall and threatening the b...

The Philosophy of Life .

When a great thinker is misunderstood, the first question to ask is whether it is the fault of the great thinker or the fault of those who m...

The Vulgar Moralist has weighed in on the ongoing debate concerning the rational justification for morality. His response contains the sa...

In the U. S. Senate race in Kentucky between Rand Paul and Jack Conway it is being reported that the Conway has agreed to debate Paul on Fo...