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Secular nations and abortion law

By Damion Reinhardt • Mar 10, 2014 • 11 comments

Apparently there is an ongoing kerfuffle involving whether there is any secular argument to be made against any form of…

Say Something Positive

By Damion Reinhardt • Mar 9, 2014 • 15 comments

Over at Skepchick, Amy Roth has issued the first of her “Do Better” challenges: I challenge YOU to go out…

Complex Specified Information

By Damion Reinhardt • Mar 3, 2014 • 52 comments

This post is for any cdesign proponentsists ID-ists who would like to expound on the concept of complex specified information. How…

Monday Morning Musical Meme – Hoofprints in the Sand (REPOST)

By Damion Reinhardt • Mar 3, 2014 • No comments

There may be other songs, somewhere in the universe, that talk about closet believers coping with atheist peer pressure, but…

About last night

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 26, 2014 • 71 comments

We were halfway into the commute between UCO and OSU last night when we got the call that there would,…

A Series of Improbable Events

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 23, 2014 • 20 comments

Content warning: copypasta, violated expectations On the sixth of this month, Amanda Marcotte wrote something which made a lot of…

Freethought #FridayReads – Imaginary Friends

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 21, 2014 • No comments

If you’ve already read Rebecca Bradley’s fine review and recommendation of Imaginary Friends, by Alison Lurie (1967) and you were…

On IQ-related pejoratives

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 16, 2014 • 6 comments

I honestly don’t see the point in calling someone “stupid” or “retarded” or “moronic” or “idiotic” or what-have-you. If they really…

The Moral Landscape Challenge

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 11, 2014 • 14 comments

If I was a praying man, I’d be interceding with the gods on behalf of Russell Blackford, wishing him boundless…

Attacks against speech are attacks on us all

By Damion Reinhardt • Feb 9, 2014 • 74 comments

Over the weekend, someone launched distributed denial of service (DDos) attacks against at least three outspokenly feminist websites: Freethought Blogs, Skepchick,…

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