Toastmaster’s Speech about Evolution
I gave my third speech for Toastmasters today, and the title was “Why Evolution Matters.” My objective was to inform the audience of about the lack of acceptance of evolution in the United States when...
View ArticleDarwin Day 2010 at CFI Indy
Last Saturday I had the great opportunity to go to the Darwin Day 2010 conference in Indianapolis. It’s not the first time I’d made the two-hour trek from Louisville to Indianapolis for a Center for...
View ArticleDarwin Day 2010 Part 2
As promised, here is part 2 to my previous Darwin Day post. The next speaker in the lineup after Barbara Forrest was Denise Marie Sobieski. She is a high school science teacher in Indiana, and has been...
View ArticleWhat does atheism have to do with evolution?
In actual fact, very little. Let me explain. At the American Atheists convention I wrote about in my previous post, I got a hear a few very good and thought-provoking speakers. One was Massimo...
View ArticleSentience more important than Life
When I was growing up, I used to watch “Star Trek: The Next Generation” with my parents almost every Saturday. The shows that appealed to me most were the ones that dealt with some deep philosophical...
View ArticleIUS Darwin Day 2011
Last night I had the great pleasure of going to a Darwin Day event with the Freethinkers for Education and Morality at Indiana University Southeast. Yep, now that I am four years out of college new...
View ArticleWhy I am An Atheist: Science is better than Faith
Since I am recently talking about The God Virus, it bears mention that religion is not the only viral idea out there. In my youngest years the “god virus” (to use the metaphor) was not the only viral...
View ArticleMy Homeschool Story
The Thinking Atheist had a podcast about homeschooling last Tuesday. I wish it had been a day that I could listen to the show live, because I might have called in if it was. I was a home schooled kid...
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