‘I don’t need a Hell to fear to be ethical, or a paradise to reward me for my good.’… Read the rest

‘What could be more foolish than to base one’s entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at that time, now appear to be quite erroneous?’… Read the rest

Azam Kamguian on what the anti-secularist backlash has done to education.… Read the rest

How Intelligent Design Creationism Is Wedging Its Way into the Cultural and Academic Mainstream… Read the rest

Don’t essentialize Indianness, but you’d better get the Real India right.… Read the rest

‘We are born of primordial slime, not at the hands of a benevolent and concerned supreme being who lovingly crafted us from clay.’… Read the rest

Deniers distort history in order to promote antisemitism and white supremacy.… Read the rest

‘The protection built into Theory…is composed of layer on layer of ignorance.’… Read the rest

‘To concede that no one ever believes something solely because it’s true is not to deny that anything is objectively true.’… Read the rest

Confusing religion and race is a clever trap the religious have laid for a worried government rightly anxious about race. … Read the rest

‘The Epistemological Situation of Astrology in Relation to the Ambivalent Fascination/Rejection of Postmodern Societies’… Read the rest

‘Among intellectuals and in the academic world, any attempt to blame Islam for women’s oppression is stamped as Orientalism.’… Read the rest

‘A superficially historicist, materialist case – our beliefs and assumptions are embedded in our practical forms of life – leads not only to a kind of epistemological idealism, but to the deeply convenient doctrine that our way of life cannot be criticised as a whole.’… Read the rest

Alternative to what? Testing and evidence?… Read the rest

TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

(1) Check out that tree. Isn’t it pretty?
(2) Therefore, God exists.… Read the rest

Why do people believe or disbelieve?… Read the rest

‘the findings were nicely congruent with the hypothesis’ – yes, they always are, that’s the problem.… Read the rest

‘psychoanalysis, unlike a scientific theory but very much like certain religious or political movements, has essentially been immune from attacks leveled at it either from inside or outside the movement.’… Read the rest

‘the claims of psychoanalytic theory are not interpretations but determinate propositions about how the mind regularly works’… Read the rest

In fact Patriot University seems to have no standards.… Read the rest