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A Future Without God

A Future Without God

Some people think they can do without God.  They are wrong.  Their assumption is based on past performance, a form of normalcy bias in which historical trends are projected to continue into the future.  “I have gotten along fine without God thus far” they say, [a debatable proposition, but let that go] “and I see no reason to believe that I cannot keep doing so indefinitely.”  But if experience teaches us anything, it’s that conditions can be counted on to change, often without warning,…

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The First Skeptics

The First Skeptics

We live, we are told, in a “post truth” world, in which eternal verities are said to be irrelevant and reason, superfluous.  It is a place where critical thinking is neither valued nor practiced, and the good faith exchange of logical arguments in debate is a thing of the past. How did we get here?  By rejecting “absolute truth,” by which facts are distinguishable from falsehoods, fantasies, and errors based on objective, empirical data.  The fixed and finite nature of absolute truth is…

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Whistling Past The Impossible

Whistling Past The Impossible

All things deemed “impossible” have at least one qualifying feature in common: they haven’t happened—at least, not yet.  For if something classified as impossible were to occur, it could not, by definition, remain so classed.  It would have to come off the list. Not only would the occurrence of an “impossible” event disprove its impossibility, it would reveal that the impossible had in fact been possible for some period of time—perhaps for only a moment, but perhaps from the very beginning.  During this interval,…

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