I am a graduate of medicine and theology with a Ph.D in medical ethics. I tutor in medical ethics at the University of Melbourne, am an (occasional) adjunct Lecturer in Ethics at Ridley Melbourne, and a voluntary researcher with Ethos. I am also a Fellow of ISCAST and a past chair of the Melbourne Chapter of Christians for Biblical Equality. I have special interests in professional ethics, sexual ethics and the ethics of virtue.
This post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the American Humanist Association … I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone an excellent National Day of Reason! In those elusive two weeks of spring in the Washington, DC area between freezing and baking, my girlfriend and I went to visit the National Monuments. When we were at the Jefferson Memorial we saw an elevator which took us underground to a section I’d never known about. Along the… Read more
This post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the American Humanist Association. He usually blogs at Rant & Reason. … Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoonist, has said silly things about evolution and religion. But his recent blog post entitled The Power of Ridiculous Reasons brings up an interesting idea worth contemplating: The human mind is wired to accept ridiculous reasons as if they are legitimate. Studies have shown that people are more likely to agree to a favor if the… Read more
This post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the American Humanist Association. He usually blogs at Rant & Reason. Jesse will now be a regular contributor to this site, so please welcome him to the group! … PZ Myers and Jerry Coyne each have posts mocking BioLogos, the Templeton Foundation-funded website by Francis Collins. Myers describes it as “fluffy bunnies and pious weasels to reconcile science and faith. It’s a rich vein of the worst of pseudo-scientific apologetics, and… Read more
This guest post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the American Humanist Association. He usually blogs at Rant & Reason. … This is the second time this month I’ve agreed with Steven Waldman. Uncanny and unexpected. In his piece on Beliefnet, he makes the case that our abortion policy shouldn’t focus on a distinct line between life and not-life. It’s a gradual process in which the embryo develops into a fetus and eventually into a conscious being. [C]onsider this… Read more
This guest post is by Jesse Galef, who works for the American Humanist Association. He usually blogs at Rant & Reason. … Read this exchange and tell me who you think the speaker is: Question: “Immanuel Kant said that without the afterlife morality couldn’t survive. What’s your response to that idea?” … “God is blackmailer. God is warden of the prison. He created us all in his image — probably a mistake — and then allows us to run wild… Read more
