deism

Last night I watched Creation, a film about the life of Charles Darwin and how he came to write On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. What I found especially moving was his own struggle against the authority of religion and the beliefs of his religious wife. With religion he had no qualms, but the fear of breaking his wife’s heart almost stopped him from finishing his book.

I often hear religious people say that freethinkers are proud people, leaning on their own human understanding. The faithful claim to...

I would like to thank Wes for his invaluable contributions to this piece. Imagine a single-celled organism. Longing for life, it tries...

Oh you being of the heavens, I am praying In the middle of the battlefield of my soul I am crying, can you...