Intellectual Atheism
Here you will find articles of a more scholarly nature from our contributors, for those interested in a more academic understanding of religions.
The Sacred and the Profane
Mircea Eliade, a prominent historian of religion, philosopher, and fiction writer from Romania, profoundly influenced the study of comparative religion. His work The Sacred and the Profane (1956), ori...
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (50th Anniversary Ed.) – A Humanist Spacetime Review
Introduction This review begins with a confession: I recently had a transcendent experience. In its aftermath, I turned to The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra, curious whether his insights might reson...
Belief and the Human Mind
A 2009 study by the National Institutes of Health cognitive neuroscience program found that the human brain makes no distinction between how it perceives deities or humans. “God” seemed to have the sa...
Video Summaries of Religious History
Jason Sylvester, host of the AAI Podcast, has a YouTube channel dedicated to the history of religion. Based on writings for a book, in progress, on how the world became secular, each video tackles a s...
Probabilistic Calculations Are Flawed – Amino Acids
In last April’s blog Probabilistic Calculations Are Flawed – Words and Letters, I reviewed scientist David Foster’s calculations in which he used Wordsworth’s Daffodils to argue for life as a creation...
Abiogenesis
An acquaintance told me that he doesn’t believe in the theory of evolution because it’s like believing that life came from nothing. I replied that, on the contrary, at the moment of the emergence of l...
Probabilistic Calculations Are Flawed – Words and Letters (Part 2)
In my blog of last October “Humans Impose Themselves on Nature”, I stated that people view nature from their perspective, thereby giving nature properties and qualities it doesn’t have: When religions...
Probabilistic Calculations Are Flawed – Words and Letters
In his book The Philosophical Scientists, scientist David Foster performs calculations in an attempt to show that life could not have evolved by chance. He chose Wordsworth’s Daffodils, specifically t...
Entropy and Inter-connectivity in Evolution
In a gas, if atoms aren’t bound to each other, motion is random, and we have maximum entropy. For instance, the atoms in a tank of hydrogen. The second law of thermodynamics states that a system alway...
Randomness in Evolution
In my previous post, I presented an analogy that made me realize a few years ago that DNA mutations must indeed be random, as evolutionists claim. Being a creationist most of my life and at that time ...
An Analogy in Support for Random Mutations
Until two years ago, I was a creationist, but not a fanatical one. I agreed with Darwin’s principles of evolution. However, I believed that an intelligent agent, God, drove them. It’s not scientific f...
¿Por qué creería en propriapros*, o en conejos subatómicos o en algún dios? / Why would I believe in propripraps*, or in subatomic rabbits, or in any god?
* Propriprapo es el nombre que inventé para referirme a las infinitamente pequeñas mentes eternas, característicamente bromistas, que atraviesan las entidades materiales, dando impulso a todas las cos...