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This is an exciting time for the SSA! With our affiliate count growing exponentially (we have over 350 now!), we are expanding the staff as well so we can handle all of our growth! Our first new hire is Jessica Kirsner , who is our new Development Associate. Jessica is currently pursuing a BA in biology with minors in political science and anthropology at the University of Miami and will graduate in May, when she will join the SSA full time. This is her first job in the secular movement, but was active with UM’s SSA affiliate, SHAARKS.
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T he nonprofit Freedom From Religion Foundation works to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism, and to promote the constitutional principle of separation between church and state. The Foundation is the nation's largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics and skeptics) with over 17,000 members. Since 1978, the Foundation has acted on countless violations of the separation of state and church, and has taken and won many significant complaints and important lawsuits to end state/church entanglements.
Freedom From Religion Foundation
[Journalists] seem to feel let down when they discover that the real people aren't anything like the way they so relentlessly portray us; as if, since they've gone to the trouble of inventing extravagant caricatures of us, we should at least have the decency to live up to them in real life.
Dawkins Website
I briefly discussed the illusion of free will in both The End of Faith and The Moral Landscape . I have since received hundreds of questions and comments from readers and learned just where the sticking points were in my original arguments. I am happy to now offer my final thoughts on the subject in the form of a short book, Free Will , that can be read in a single sitting. The question of free will touches nearly everything we care about. Morality, law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, feelings of guilt and personal accomplishment—most of what is distinctly human about our lives seems to depend upon our viewing one another as autonomous persons, capable of free choice.
Sam Harris
Why Atheism?
Just about everyone is an atheist when it comes to other gods — the gods that other people believe in or that nobody believes in anymore. I’m an atheist about all gods because there's no reliable evidence for any god, or even for Jesus. There is also extensive evidence that Jesus and all gods are fictional characters — myths created mainly by primitive people who had little understanding of how our universe operates. We all like myths and other stories, but we don't have to believe them. If you were to the release third coin, what do you think would happen? If you could get ten good Christians to pray that this next coin wouldn’t fall, would it still fall?TalkOrigins
For your convenience, the archive's files have been divided into the categories listed to the left. Read the archive's FAQ for answers to questions that are frequently encountered in talk.origins. Check out the must-read files for detailed essays and FAQs on some of the central issues in the creation/evolution controversy. Try the index if you're looking for a FAQ or an essay on a specific topic. The outline is a site map that provides an alternative way to find a topic.
Iron Chariots
The upgrade to MediaWiki 1.18.1 is now complete, and the forums are restored. Thank you for your patience, I'm still working out what is the best way to update the new version in order to block the spam. "And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron - Judges 1:19 " Iron Chariots is intended to provide information on apologetics and counter-apologetics .
Atheists Know More About Religion Than the Pious - Truthdig
Posted on Sep 28, 2010 Well, this is awkward. The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life undertook a study in which nonbelievers correctly answered more religious knowledge questions than the devout. Mormons and Jews also scored well and, like atheists, know more about Christianity than Christians. Here are some of Pew’s surprising findings:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority , mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes. [ 1 ] Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding.
Dunning–Kruger effect
Jesus' burial is important because without it, there can be no tomb from which Jesus can arise in three days. It's also historically implausible: crucifixion was intended as a shameful, horrible execution which included allowing the bodies to remain nailed up until they rotted off. It's inconceivable that Pilate would have agreed to turn the body over to anyone for any reason. This may have something to do with why the gospel authors all have different stories about it. If the mind weren't ultimately a product of physical, material processes then we shouldn't expect to find that the functioning of the mind is significantly influenced by physical forces like gravity -- but that seems to be exactly what's going on.
Agnosticism / Atheism - Skepticism & Atheism for Atheists & Agnostics
Vertebrates are modified segmented worms; that is, their body plan is made up of sequentially repeated units, most apparent in skeletal structures like the vertebrae. Arthropods are also modified segmented worms. Look at a larval fly, for instance, and you can see they are made up of rings stacked together. So here’s a simple and…