An effective test of a government’s commitment to religious freedom may be whether it protects the expression of organizations its leader’s dislike.
Why should membership of a particular religious institution confer political authority that no atheist, humanist or other religious citizen automatically receives?
When a Christian votes against Christian nationalism, are they voting against Christianity or against the use of state power to impose it?
Kim Davis owes a gay couple $565,000. A federal judge wants her to stop lying about her assets.
Will the new Democrats come to love their neighbors now that the hateful Christians numbers are declining? If the policy is just, can the new religious left justify it without quoting Jesus? And if they can, why do they need to quote him, even if the savior arrives from the elephant hunt on the back of a donkey.
Texas chief justice-elect seeks to end religious exemption for judges who decline same-sex weddings.
World of Woo: What evidence would convince you that this conspiracy theory is false?
Environment: What happens when the institutions responsible for solving a crisis become casualties of the crisis themselves?
With 5,412 confirmed measles cases now being reported, with the rise in child deaths end RFK’s reckless reign. What would the Crunchy Moms make of that?
The Standard Model of Cosmology might be telling us something is wrong with our assumptions rather than with our observations.
The Standard Model of particle Physics is a separate framework and the electron may still have something elementary to teach us
Even if we can’t point to a single privileged starting point, all complex systems evolve from simpler ones. If life emerged through a succession of ordinary chemical processes, at which step would a supernatural intervention become necessary, and what observation would establish that necessity? If we can engineer matter to manufacture its own machinery, regulate its movement and respond to its environment, which additional properties would it need before we could reasonably call it alive?
Before declaring that AI and Consciousness may never meet, we should establish exactly what both things are.
Is ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ a question awaiting an answer, or a question that assumes something as we have never established that nothingness was ever a possible alternative?
Coffee Break Videos: Goodbye Lauren Boebert. Why does evolution keep inventing mind control. Kalam debunked.
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