New Athiest

by kiwichick posted: 25 May 2013 Category: Religion 30

Hi All I am an Ex-Mormon, Over the past few months I have been feeling quite depressed. A few weeks ago I gave in my resignation to leave the Mormon Church, who...

Linguistic relativity, an adressable issue in an atheism awareness raiser?

by Steven93 posted: 25 May 2013 Category: Atheism 11

As professor Dawkins labours to raise awareness of the importance of critical thinking and of how religion is a hinderance to it, he raises the interesting point of not labeling children as a 'Christian child' but rather as...

Abiogenesis , multiple times?

by degeus posted: 23 May 2013 Category: Science 21

Hi there, Somebody asked me why Abiogenesis happened only once. My response was that it may very well have happened multiple times but that the Earth's atmosphere transitioned from...

Consciousness and Life

by Cairsley posted: 22 May 2013 Category: Science 52

Having read Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett, I am very grateful to the author of this excellent book for setting out what amounts to a promising basis for furthering the understanding of consciousness, which...