“Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody … had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge … Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the […]
Month: April 2019
Pascal’s Wager
Blaise Pascal considered the question of belief. “Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.” I have […]
Why I am not a Catholic
It was around year 11 of my 16 years of catholic education when I started to realize that praying was simply talking to myself. I was open to hearing some response but there was none. This realization came gradually. It was only a few years earlier that I figured out that Santa Claus isn’t real. […]
The DBAD Speech
At The Amazing Meeting in July of 2010, astronomer Phil Plait gave a memorable talk informally labeled DBAD or “Don’t Be a Dick”. You can hear this talk on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrFRbGjUtJk He makes the point that most people don’t move from being credulous to being a skeptic because someone jumped in their face and called […]