Read More Atheists for Liberty With headlines about how various celebrities ranging from Ozzy Osbourne to Russell Brand have “found God”, one might think that religion has been regaining some of its lost ground in mainstream culture. But if the new Hulu comedy series “This Fool” is any indication, Catholicism and religion in general is […]
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This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 19, Issue 2, from 2006. I usually find magic irritating and certainly didn’t think I knew how to perform any myself, so I was most surprised, while watching Derren Brown on TV (Channel 4, 2003), to see a trick which I know how to do. He goes
Read More Skeptic Shermer, Tupy, and Pooley discuss: why we long for the “good ol’ days” • the Malthusian trap • Ehrlich’s predictions on overpopulation • the birth dearth • the Simon Abundance Index • compound interest • What does it mean for the economy to grow 2–3% a year? • accumulating wealth • what
Read More Skeptic As computer’s grow ever more powerful and computer programs—especially those involved in voice and image manipulation—the threat of “deepfakes” grows, and with it the problem of both personal and national crisis looms. Personally, someone could created a deepfake sex tape of someone and blackmail them; nationally, a foreign power could create a
Read More Atheist Republic Senate bill 797 requires Texas public schools to display donated “In God We Trust” posters. The law was authored by Texas Republican senator Bryan Hughes, the same man who wrote the infamous Senate bill 8, also known as the Heartbeat Bill, which bans most abortions after the first six weeks before
Read More Atheist Republic On August 17, a Nigerian federal appeals court ruled that Islamic Sharia (law) does not violate the country’s secular constitution in a two-to-one decision. It was also decided that Sharia courts have jurisdiction over blasphemy cases. The appeal was filed in the case of twenty-two-year-old Yahaya Aminu Sharif, an Islamic gospel
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Read More Atheist Republic Islamic extremists attacked a man from Maumo village in the Luuka District of Uganda on July 26. Forty-two-year-old Musa John Kasadah, a father of six, converted to Christianity in an outdoor service on June 17. His wife and children also converted in the ceremony, and the family began attending church. After
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