The Humanist

"People, including me, would rather believe that significant human biological evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups are biologically equivalent."--Steven...

IF SOMEONE THREW a party in your honor, would you go? Now, before you say yes and then ask where, when, and if you should bring your dance moves, consider the full question: If a Godless American threw a party in your honor, would you go? Certainly...

EVERY SUMMER, our church held a revival. Brother Joe H. West, our grandfatherly pastor, invited Baptist preachers from all over the country to travel to San Antonio and speak to us. It was a week-long event, Sunday to Sunday, with two sermons a night...

SINCE THE Kitzmiller v. Dover case landed on my docket in December of 2004, I have had an astonishing, almost mind-bending odyssey. That I--a Republican, Bush-appointed judge and a Lutheran from Pennsylvania--accepted the Humanist Religious Liberty...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP has always existed between humankind and nature. The development of entire cultures has been dependent on environmental factors: the ease of collecting food, the shifting of seasons, the availability...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CHARLES DARWIN'S On the Origin of Species appeared in 1859 and revolutionized how the "science and religion enterprises viewed human nature. Scientists proceeded to populate the many rooms, nooks, and crannies of Darwin's...

DID YOU KNOW that the existence of the Judeo Christian God is easily proved through a number of scientific laws and well-placed quotations from the Old Testament? Dr. Hugh Ross, an astrophysicist who is also an Old Earth creationist and the president...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] YEARS AGO I asked a PR specialist how I could know if a publicity stunt I cooked up might be effective. He answered, If you re" embarrassed to tell your family about it" In other words, it has to be taboo-breaking, silly,...