• A talk before the Space Coast Freethought Association on Oct. 1, 2006 Note to the web edition: A large part of the material reproduced in this talk is from other sources, specifically the late Dr. Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted Word: Science As A Candle In The Dark and Michael Shermer’s two columns written for Scientific American in November and …
The dishonest veto of stem cell research The photo op so carefully arranged by the Bush Administration after the president’s first veto points up the basic dishonesty of the fundamentalist minority in the debate over stem cell research. There was the president, surrounded by various young children and their parents, declaring, in his first-ever veto …
A talk given before the Friendship Fellowship at Pineda, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation, on Feb. 15, 2009. (This is a revised and updated version of a talk originally delivered at the Space Coast Freethought Association meeting on Feb. 5, 2006) Introduction: Charles Robert Darwin was born on Feb. 12, 1809—the same date as Abraham Lincoln—and …
By George A. Ricker Over the past month or so we have been regaled with complaints from many Christians about a so-called war on Christmas. The mavens of public morality have demanded—with threats of economic boycott for recalcitrants—that retail outlets wish customers a “Merry Christmas” instead of using such nonspecific, and entirely appropriate, phrases as …