The physicist David Deutsch. I learn something each time I listen to this guy-its ridiculous. His writings and presentations really exemplify and explicate the SSP-Secular Scientific Perspective, especially with regards Continue Reading →
Two weeks ago I submitted a full-blown 25 page, 13,000 word book proposal on “The Obsolescence of Religious Thought” (TORT), to a book agent that publishes religious titles. Previously, since Continue Reading →
It is time to replace the pervasive “things are always getting worse” outlook that frets that “temptation and sin are always lurking around the corner” or that “disaster is but Continue Reading →
I am an unabashed scientismist. Scientism is often derogatorally described as an overuse, over confidence in science, and an arrogant refusal to see there are other “ways of knowing” usually Continue Reading →
8 classes, house projects, a bit of travel, WRITING A CHAPTER for an edited volume to be published hopefully it the next year or so, and squeezing in minimal research Continue Reading →
Well, here’s the YouTube channel banner graphics I just received yesterday. A take-off on the Apollo 8 photo (still copyrighted, I believe), that says what I want to express at Continue Reading →
The “Defenders of the New Enlightenment” (D.O.N.E.) YouTube channel of science and secular podcasts hosted by yours truly, Dr.Z, the Unbelieving Scum, is FINALLY in the works. I’m about a Continue Reading →
My new secular group, the McHenry County Freethinkers and Humanists, but 9 months old now, had a booth at the McHenry County Fair 2 weeks ago in my hometown of Continue Reading →
Gen Z, those born between 1995 and 2010, many of whom are 18-24 right now and of voting age are, according to this NYT article Young Voters Keep Moving Left Continue Reading →
I’ve blogged numerous times on the apparent inevitability of liberal progressive ideas eventually overcoming the undying resistance of Conservatism: here, Here, and HERE…and there are 1/2 dozen more blogs on Continue Reading →
