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The Great Accidental Illusion: Why Total Solar Eclipses Are Nowhere Close to Being Evidence for the Existence of a Creator
March 25, 2024Editor’s note: This article was originally published on our website in 2017 (https://secularhumanism.org/2017/08/cont-the-great-accidental-illusion/)when the last total solar eclipse was seen across the United States. Gregory Paul has updated his article considering the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. It will once again be seen across the United States. The Center for Inquiry headquarters …
The Bright Line between Good and Evil
Volume 44, No. 3April/May 2024
This article was adapted from a transcript of the November 7, 2023, episode of the author’s podcast, Making Sense. We have witnessed extreme moral confusion since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing approximately 1,200 people and taking over 200 hostages. Some of it has been just frank anti-Semitism, but much is actual confusion. …
Reflections on a Death Spiral
Volume 44, No. 3April/May 2024
“Don’t let them drive the tractor. They need to know their place.” It was 1992. I was living in Israel, breathing in the desert air, loving the family that adopted me on the kibbutz, and enjoying the company of the Palestinian day-laborers who came over from Gaza each morning to work. They had to get …
Myths about Overpopulation
Volume 44, No. 3April/May 2024
Editor’s note: As a publication based in secular humanist values, we frequently cover and discuss existential risks. In particular, the ecological impact of human overpopulation has resonated deeply with many of Free Inquiry’s writers over the years and has been frequently raised as one of our most serious threats. In his article “Save the Earth; …
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Have Christians Accepted the Scientific Conclusion That God Does Not Answer Intercessory Prayer?
Volume 39, No. 1December 2018 / January 2019
In 1982, a young cardiologist at the San Francisco General Medical Center named Randolph Byrd had a brilliant insight that would motivate several important investigations of prayer during the following two decades. He realized that the standard research paradigm known as the double-blind randomized clinical trial could be used to test the efficacy of intercessory …
Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice
Volume 36, No. 5August / September 2016
Why be pro-abortion? Because of all the genuine, unquestioned goods it makes possible.
The Importance of Being Blasphemous
Volume 35, No. 6October / November 2015
Looking back on the Satanic Verses affair from the time of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, it is clear that Western culture has hemorrhaged away its courage.
Popular Articles
Have Christians Accepted the Scientific Conclusion That God Does Not Answer Intercessory Prayer?
Volume 39, No. 1December 2018 / January 2019
In 1982, a young cardiologist at the San Francisco General Medical Center named Randolph Byrd had a brilliant insight that would motivate several important investigations of prayer during the following two decades. He realized that the standard research paradigm known as the double-blind randomized clinical trial could be used to test the efficacy of intercessory …
Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice
Volume 36, No. 5August / September 2016
Why be pro-abortion? Because of all the genuine, unquestioned goods it makes possible.
Looking Back
Introduction
Volume 36, No. 3April / May 2016
Social scientists don’t use the word secular like we do—just one of the revelations in this far-ranging cover feature.
Secularism and Social Progress
Volume 36, No. 3April / May 2016
Unprecedented secularization across the world isn’t just news; in innumerable ways it is good news.
Whither American Freethinking?
Volume 36, No. 3April / May 2016
The future of unbelief may lie in greater diversity—and less rhetoric about unbelief.
Introduction
Volume 36, No. 3April / May 2016
Social scientists don’t use the word secular like we do—just one of the revelations in this far-ranging cover feature.
Secularism and Social Progress
Volume 36, No. 3April / May 2016
Unprecedented secularization across the world isn’t just news; in innumerable ways it is good news.