Adolf Grunbaum Comments

Some Comments on William Craig’s “Creation and Big Bang Cosmology” Adolf Grünbaum   University of Pittsburgh   [This article was originally published in Philosophia Naturalis, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 225-236, 1994.] I. Introduction Craig makes a whole array of assertions, some of which call for much more detailed scrutiny than is possible in a […]

A Hindu Woman Answer to Hindu

Answer to Why I Am Not a Hindu by A Hindu Woman I First, I wish to make clear that I have no quarrel with Mr. Ramendra Nath for declaring that he is not a Hindu. He has listed four reasons for declaring why he is not a Hindu: “I do not believe in the […]

Yours, Isaac Asimov : A Lifetime of Letters

Yours, Isaac Asimov : A Lifetime of Letters
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Isaac Asimov was one of the most prolific authors of our time. When he died in 1992 at the age of seventy-two, he had published more than 470 books innearly every category of fiction and nonfiction. Asimov was a prodigious correspondent as well as a prolific author. During his professional career he received more than […]

Women Without Superstition

Women Without Superstition
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An outstanding collection of the writings of women freethinkers of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries, including Susan B. Anthony, Annie Besant, George Eliot, Catherine Fahringer, Anne Nicol Gaylor, Ruth Hermence Green, Taslima Nasrin, Katha Pollitt, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Barbara G. Walker, and much, much more!

Women and the Koran

Women and the Koran
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In Women and the Koran, Anwar Hekmat challenges the mullahs who would stifle freethought and open discussion of how Muslim holy writ debases and dehumanizes women. From arranged marriages of female children (some only nine years old!) to religious laws that dictate what women can learn, how they must dress, where they may be seen […]

Without a Prayer: Religious Expression in the Public Schools

Without a Prayer: Religious Expression in the Public Schools
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An alarming number of school districts are bending to pressure by those on the religious right to allow prayer, Bible readings, and other religious activities in classrooms, while directly infringing upon the rights of many students, believers and nonbelievers alike. Now, for the first time, noted author Robert S. Alley thoroughly examines school prayer, bringing […]

Wisdom Without Answers

Wisdom Without Answers
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Wisdom Without Answers is a simple yet profound introduction to philosophy ideal for those unfamiliar with philosophy. Rather than introducing the reader to a lot of complicated philosophical jargon, Kolak and Martin delve into several traditional philosophical problems in small separate chapters using a Socratic questioning style. This small book probes deep issues in a […]

Why the Holocaust Happened: Its Religious Cause & Scholarly Cover-Up

Why the Holocaust Happened: Its Religious Cause & Scholarly Cover-Up
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This is the first work ever to examine the thousands of pages of Adolf Hitler’s personal notes, letters, and statements to intimates and supporters, in order to answer the question: Did Hitler himself explain, to himself and to those in whom he confided, why he was so obsessed to exterminate “the Jews”? It turns out […]

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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UFO abductions… television psychics… creationism… Holocaust denial. Faced with the rapid changes and anxiety of modern life, many people are turning to the alluring comforts of pseudoscience and the occult. In Why People Believe Weird Things, science historian Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic magazine and director of the Skeptics Society, explores the very human […]

Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism

Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
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Is Darwinian evolution established fact, or a dogma ready to be overtaken by the next scientific revolution? The intelligent design movement argues the latter. Why Intelligent Design Fails assembles a team of physicists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and archaeologists to examine intelligent design from a scientific perspective. They consistently find grandiose claims without merit. Contributors […]

Why I Am Not a Muslim

Why I Am Not a Muslim
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Appalled by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism, Ibn Warraq offers in response a reasoned examination of the world’s second largest religion. Having been raised as a Muslim himself, Warraq has personal experience with Islam as well as a thorough knowledge of Islamic scholarship. Warraq presents a critical analysis of the life of Muhammad, the factors […]

Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith

Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
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Description Richard Carrier explains the four reasons he rejects Christianity, describing the four facts that—were they different—he would be a believer. Those four facts are God’s silence, God’s inaction, the lack of evidence, and the way the universe looks exactly like a godless universe would, and not at all like a Christian universe would—even down […]

Why I Am Not a Christian

Why I Am Not a Christian
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Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself — questions about man’s place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He […]

Why I Am an Agnostic

Why I Am an Agnostic
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The renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) was also an impassioned defender of intellectual freedom, individual liberties, and social injustice. In these wide-ranging essays, Darrow attacks beliefs in the inerrancy of the Bible, the immortality of the soul, miracles, and heaven as being completely at odds with human experience and science.

Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief

Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief
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Over the centuries, theories have abounded as to why human beings have a seemingly irrational attraction to God and religious experiences. In Why God Won’t Go Away authors Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene D’Aquili, M.D., and Vince Rause offer a startlingly simple, yet scientifically plausible opinion: humans seek God because our brains are biologically programmed to […]

Why Evolution Is True

Why Evolution Is True
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Book Description Among the wonders that science has uncovered about the universe, no subject has sparked more fascination and fury than evolution. In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant “intelligent design,” there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned–the evidence, the empirical truth of evolution by natural […]

Why Christianity Must Change or Die

Why Christianity Must Change or Die
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John Shelby Spong, Episcopal Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, argues that if Christianity is to survive in the modern age of science, it must shed some of its traditional beliefs. See why this book has traditional Christians in such a tizzy!

Why Be Moral?

Why Be Moral?
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Noted philosopher Kai Nielsen offers an answer to this fundamental question – a question that reaches in to grasp at the very heart of ethics itself. Essentially, this innocent inquiry masks a confusion that so many of us get caught in as we think about moral issues. We fail to realize that there is a […]

Why Atheism?

Why Atheism?
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George H. Smith, defender of reason and personal liberty, examines the following issues: the positive dimensions of atheism; the burden of proof; the nature of religious experience; problems in proofs of God’s existence; the ethics of Jesus; sex and guilt; Christian values in American society; religion and culture; the lure of “afterlife”; concepts of heaven, […]

Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth

Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth
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Description Burton Mack proposes that the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities for various purposes and are only distantly related to the actual historical Jesus. Comment “Certainly Mack’s book should take a place in the front ranks of the many fine introductions available to students of the New Testament in both academic and […]

Who Wrote the Gospels?

Who Wrote the Gospels?
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The names we associate with the gospel writers are all second century guesses. If this comes as a surprise, welcome to the cutting edge of modern biblical scholarship. According to Helms, the gospels were written to convert or confirm their highly colored arguments of powerful authors, not just transparent windows upon the historical Jesus. If […]