Wounded Bull and Ice Age hunter with atl-atl (spear-thrower). From nearly 40,000 years ago to almost 10,000 BC, all across southern Europe in over 400 caves and rockshelters, Paleolithic Cave Continue Reading →
Once again, despite the insane Conservative backlash headed by Trump and his supporters, I am not only struck (and encouraged) by the modifying responses and outright defiant opposition by the Continue Reading →
Information Kills Religion. Yes it does. Science; modern knowledge, sweeps away the old myths, superstitions, repressions, and pessimism of religious thought. Normally, I would prepare one of these posts on Continue Reading →
Fewer children are dying from disease and malnutrition and more children than ever before are escaping extreme poverty, illiteracy, and repressive government. That’s the heartening message, and it isn’t “Fake Continue Reading →
A Xmas “gift” courtesy of ancient religious thought from the other side of the planet: abject homophobia built into another primitive belief system. Many ex-Christians I’ve known have embraced Buddhism Continue Reading →
Sometimes in my random review of current events, I read the futurist stuff, like Stephen Hawkings’ conjecture that we need to get off the earth in 600 years…, or else, Continue Reading →
The 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, signed by a number of researchers on the subject, declares that animals have consciousness because they have similar neural structures to those we humans Continue Reading →
The steady, inevitable, secular advance is readily apparent in the data cited by two recent articles describing significant changes in the US population. First up, James Haught, in an article Continue Reading →
From the Mythicist Milwaukee website: Our Mission Mythicist Milwaukee promotes dialogue about culture, religion and freedom of thought. Our Vision: A world free from religious oppression and bigotry. our core Continue Reading →
Jase Heap of The Untied Coalition of Reason reports that 367 out 1,041 incoming freshmen at American University in Wash DC identify as a “None” of some kind. “Nones” of Continue Reading →
