Social Justice

Sometimes – actually oftentimes – we can get pretty sloppy and careless in our use of words. Take the use of the words “proof” and “evidence”. Proof and evidence, like speed and velocity, or theory and guess, have colloquial definitions that often lead to confusion. In order to smooth the progress of communication and avoid misunderstanding, these words have been given technical definitions in science and philosophy...For example, we prove a mathematical theorem instead of “finding evidences” for its truth, while we accumulate the evidence for a particular scientific theory but we never “prove” a theory. What’s the difference? The distinction is best illustrated by examples.

"Not much experience is needed to be fully aware of human weakness and to understand that human beings—and especially the young, who are so exposed to temptation—need incentives to keep the moral law, and it is an evil thing to make it easy for them to break that law."

Secularism won’t come as a gift or magically sprout overnight. It is like any human achievement – we MUST work to get it.

Poe's law may have been originally coined for fundamentalism, but it actually works on any crackpot theory (like the whole shebang...

Whenever believers try to defend their faith in an intervening God using reason (or more precisely, pseudo-reason), the critical thinker cannot help but point out the fallacies. There is this email being circulated that tries to explain the problem of evil and why God allows pain and suffering.

In Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, Judas sings Heaven On Their Minds, expressing his concern about how Jesus' influence was getting dangerously out of hand. With a hindsight of 2000 years, let us look at how Judas' forewarning fared over the centuries.

The resurrection represents Christ’s triumph over death and is the proof of his divine nature and the truthfulness of life after death. It appears, however, that even the people at the time of the Bible weren’t very interested in the raising of the dead.

He was showing everyone the sign to warn them of impending doom. No loud voice, no in-your-face tactics, just gestures and the waving sign.

Robert Sapolsky, renowned neurobiologist, explains how we are not as unique in the animal kingdom as we like to think. Begin at...