Thoughts from the Boonies

One of the more irritating tactics of evolutionary apologists is their habit of hand-waving. An example of this is when people express doub...

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, B...

If I were Grand Inquisitor, I would try to burn out of the world not so much certain beliefs as certain phrases. I would argue with people a...

"It is a serious thing," says Lewis, "to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and m...

Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life? Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wr...

Philosopher Glenn Peoples evaluates the Bill Craig versus Sam Harris debate, and finds it to be just as bad as I feared. Although he is c...

Delusion Damage has an essay on those who use violence as part of their regular communication, and warns against doing more than instructed...

One of the prevailing arguments in Christianity is whether we are predestined to be saved, or whether we choose to be saved. In my view th...

Orson Scott Card presented an argument of why the culture of the West is in decline. The greatness of a society does not arise from their ...