Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Pluto, Lovecraft, & the ‘REAL’ Reason Behind Cosmos
OK… OK… Hear me out on this one: Neil DeGrasse Tyson is an alien, or at very least working for an alien race known as the Mi-go who are described […]
Tag Archives: religion
3 Reasons Why God is a Nihilist; Or, Showing Sympathy for God
I want to start with a disclaimer and a qualification. First, this post isn’t about bashing God. This post is about understanding humanity. It’s about finding joy as flourishing individuals […]
The Failure of Liberation Theology: A Short Retrospective
Religion often serves as an apologia for the status quo. This is neither a novel nor a particularly profound insight, but it does hint toward the role that most Christian […]
The 6 Ways Altruism Could Have Evolved: Part 2, Commitment & Sex
In my first post in this three part series I focused on the first 2 of 6 ways – reciprocity and kin selection – that evolution by natural selection without […]
The Irreverent Trauma of Being Just a Human: Event Review of Salman Rushdie at Rutgers University
Last week, world-famous author Salman Rushdie appeared at Rutgers University as part of the English Department’s new Writers at Rutgers Reading Series. Hundreds of eager students, faculty, staff, and community […]
What Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction Has to Say About Storytelling & Humanism: Book Review of “MaddAddam”
The final installment of Margaret Atwood’s speculative fiction trilogy finally arrived this year, thus concluding her series which functions as a hypothetical answer to what may happen if we don’t […]
3 Explanations of the Groundings of Naturalistic, Non-Theistic Ethics
In a previous post about Cultural Relativism I proposed 4 arguments for relativism and then argued that none of them really work. It’s not that I had any arguments for […]
Three Atheists Walk into an Interfaith Dialogue….
Three atheists walk into an Interfaith dialogue… three opinions walk out. The Humanist Chaplaincy at Rutgers University recently led a group of Rutgers students as a Humanist delegation to the […]
Soul Talk: My Experience Researching & Teaching on Souls at Rutgers University
By Dan Ogilvie, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University A Sketch of the Present Debate A front page article in the August 26, 2013, edition of the New York Times reports […]
Are We Climbing the Same Mountain? Secular-Religious Ethical Disagreement and the Peter Singer & Charles Camosy Discussion
By James Goodrich, Rutgers Class of ’14 Many moral philosophers – or at least those who think there are objective facts about what is right and wrong – find widespread […]
Applied Sentience 