I’m usually taken aback when I have conversations similar to the one I had yesterday afternoon. It was my day off, and I went out for lunch by myself. It was a spontaneous lunch out, but of course I had a book with me (those who know me somewhat well know that I’m seldom without […]
The less that parents “walk the walk” about religious beliefs, the more likely their children are to walk away. In 2009, Joseph Henrich, a professor in the Psychology and Economics departments at the University of British Columbia (now at Harvard), proposed the idea of Credibility Enhancing Displays (CREDs). He was looking for a term to signify people […]
written by John Waddington Why do we have religions? They are everywhere. In the present we are down to a few big ones, but it wasn’t always that way. It seems that our ancestors had belief in many gods – explanations for the operations of the world around them that they did not understand, which was […]
written by John Waddington For over one hundred years, evolution of organic creatures has been accepted as a fact. That over millions of years life has developed and improved from simple designs in the distant past, to the complex ones we see today. Most of us accept this without thinking much about it, assuming that we […]
These articles and links are from the BC Humanist Association’s website. So let’s dig into the background first. This case centred on whether the Law Society of BC has the authority to refuse to approve a proposed law school at Trinity Western University. TWU is an evangelical private school which requires all of its […]
written by Tania Kuehn A few days ago, I was at work and mentioned to a co-worker that I’d had a somewhat frustrating morning due to a few incidents that had had happened during my shift so far. She nodded sympathetically and suggested that, how about on my coffee break, I head out for a […]
written by Tania Kuehn It’s been a year of babies, here in my little world. A couple weeks ago, a friend called and we chatted briefly, as we do a few times a year. When a baby started to fuss in the background, she told me that — surprise! — she’d had a baby recently. […]
Internal policies within the Jehovah’s Witnesses may be preventing pedophiles and sex offenders from being brought to justice. Click on the link below to watch the CTV’s W5 documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ja8dMEmPY Read more on the ‘Michigan Skeptics Association’ website. http://www.miskeptics.org/2016/03/do-jehovahs-witnesses-still-have-a-major-pedophile-problem/
written by John Waddington It seems to me that the various individuals – Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, et al. who have written books, appeared on talk shows, presented comments on the internet (youtube for instance) all describe quite clearly what they are against but not so much what they are for. Mostly they […]
