We need a National “Back Up Your Hard Drive Day” for the fools among us.

You might think I’m being facetious, but I’m dead serious. Let's select one day per year to remind people to regularly back up their computer data.  I am utterly completely and bewilderedly tired of hearing people tell me “I lost all my data, songs and photos because my computer hard drive…

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Consilience and Religious Belief

It's not so much that beliefs clash, but that the basis for believing clashes between those who embrace extradinary religious claims and those who don't. Over at Daylight Atheism, Ebonmuse illustrates this topic well, asking why the extraordinary events of the Bible, many of them allegedly witnessed by thousands, fell…

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