The next morning we were up at 6 a.m. to see Española (Hood) Island at Punta Suarez. The guide for our group was Grace. Animals spotted: Sea lions, blue-footed boobies, red-headed (lava) lizards, mockingbirds, pink iguanas, Sally Lightfoot crabs, albatrosses, gulls, Nazca boobies, heron, Galápagos doves in the rocks on the path, and finches – […]

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Before lunch that same day we enjoyed a lecture by Richard Dawkins, “Responses to The God Delusion,” then one after lunch by Eddie Tabash, “The Present Threat of the Religious Right to Our Modern Freedoms.” (I will summarize these in another post.) Then we landed at Punta Cormorant on the island of Floreana. The island had […]

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Many of us fought against Intelligent Design in the early 2000s, and for evolution to be taught in our nation’s science classes without mystical inclusions, fake “controversies” or impeaching strawmen. That battle was won, and in the wake of our triumph I speculated on how the next specter of creationism would rear its head. It […]

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In the mid-2000s the Intelligent Design, “Climate Skepticism,” and the Left Behind movements unified atheists to fight for sound science in our nation’s classrooms and a popular refutation of the negative, apocalyptic claims of the End Times and the Rapture. Sadly today, after noted victories, atheists are divided by similar apocalyptic, pessimistic claims about racism, […]

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Love horror movies but weary of supernatural explanations? Want a suspense/thriller with a rational approach for a change? Looking for a universal message grounded in plausibility? Or just want to escape ludicrously contrived plot twists and two-dimensional characters that insult your intelligence? Look no further, for below is a list of films, TV shows, and […]

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(Editor’s note: we’re including some original fiction on the website in the week before Halloween. The artwork is by Joe Aubrey.) Imagine a region in the grip of a religion pushing a cursed remedy on its populace. A world brimming with Eldritch terrors and bloodborne contagions. No one can be trusted and even the holy […]

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History is old and has existed long before our modern society. The words of The Bible, however, have existed since even before history which science has proved to have begun around 60 years ago.  Up until the Babel incident, and the subsequent murder of George Floyd, mankind lived in relative hominy where misunderstandings, deja vu, […]

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That first afternoon, we landed at Las Bachas on the island of Santa Cruz. To the right are turtle nests. To the left is an interesting intersection of tracks (an iguana and turtles). This beach is the home to the Pacific Green Sea Turtle, the Sea Iguana, the Great Blue Heron, flamingos, and various other […]

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I was born into a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses and as a conscientious young man I spent a lot of time analyzing religious teachings and trying to understand the world around me. I was taught that if I saw some problem with my religion that it wasn’t a problem with the religion but rather a […]

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In May of 2007 I went with the Center for Inquiry on one of their cruises, with the express purpose of meeting Richard Dawkins and Paul Kurtz. Unfortunately, Paul was unable to make this cruise so Eddie Tabash came in his place. (I was to meet Paul later at a conference.) The title of this […]

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I remember when the whole concept of a conservative, or at least right-leaning atheist, came across as a foreign concept. Back in 2014, the non profit organization American Atheists was disinvited from CPAC, which was the topic of a few opinion columns discussing how unwilling conservatives have been to accepting atheists. It’s ironic that nowadays […]

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A false conclusion which seems to have become the mainstream opinion nowadays is that everyone is equal. It is perhaps derived from the belief that all people should be equal before the law and have the same rights and same vote. I believe that people should have the right to the same opportunities and that […]

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