The Center For Inquiry is hosting their Student Leadership Conference this summer from June 15-17 at CFI’s headquarters in Amherst, NY (near Buffalo). If you’re a secular college student, a leader in a secular organization, or would like to start a group up on your campus, you are encouraged to attend. Registration, food, and lodging all come included in the $35 fee! Still concerned about the price of the plane ticket to Amherst? (Or, perhaps even worse, the soaring gas… Read more
I’m heading to the American Atheists convention for a few days. If you’re there, please say hello 🙂 The rest of you, be good while I’m gone! Hopefully, the spambots won’t come back and make crazy comments. And if the hotel makes me pay for Internet use, I’m going to be grumpy when I return. There must be free Wi-Fi somewhere in Seattle… Read more
Jimmy at Fluid Faith asks an interesting question: Why doesn’t anyone pray for God to suspend or violate the Laws of Math? People always pray for God to intervene in scientific realms like helping a patient deal with a biological disease, but they never pray for the rules of math to be broken. For example, Jimmy writes, you would never hear the following prayer: “God, we pray that these Ds and Fs that Sean has earned in his classes will… Read more
There’s been a big brouhaha in the secular community over the use of the word “fundamentalist” to describe people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. The word just doesn’t seem appropriate, especially when that word is used to describe religious people who adhere to the literal words in a holy book regardless of what common sense and science will tell them. The vocal atheists have reason and logic behind their beliefs. That alone makes them stand out. Dawkins himself has… Read more
