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Christian Agnostics

09.11.2024

Christian Agnostics: Vanishing Utopias

We all know that utopias cannot ever exist. But, according to historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind ,...

Christian Agnostics

27.10.2024

Christian Agnostics: The Stars in their Courses

This is from an email I wanted to send to the office of the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters. However, neit...

Christian Agnostics

12.10.2024

Christian Agnostics: Gutenberg and Printing: A View from Strasbourg

Strasbourg, France, where I now live, is justly proud of Johannes Gutenberg (about 1406-1468), who invented the printing press. He was born...

Christian Agnostics

07.09.2024

Christian Agnostics: Happiness Is Fill in the Blank

I’ve been looking through a dull but well-intentioned book from 1937, 101 of the World’s Greatest Books. That is, five to ten page summar...

Christian Agnostics

10.08.2024

Christian Agnostics: As Always, Mark Twain

In the previous essay, I tried my hand at humorous creativity to shoot down the idea that a benevolent God is in control of the world. B...

Christian Agnostics

04.08.2024

Christian Agnostics: Philosophical Debate of Two Fetuses

I recently became aware, years later than everyone else, about a story that religious people use to “prove” that there can be life after dea...

Christian Agnostics

19.07.2024

Christian Agnostics: Gutenberg and Printing: A View from Strasbourg

Strasbourg, France, where I now live, is justly proud of Johannes Gutenberg (about 1406-1468), who invented the printing press. He was bo...

Christian Agnostics

13.07.2024

Christian Agnostics: White Superiority? Not.

I recently posted an essay (July 4), on my other blog about how the Founding Fathers thought they had found a natural basis for governm...

Christian Agnostics

05.07.2024

Christian Agnostics: Will America Celebrate July 4, 2025?

Of course we will. But it might be a profoundly different kind of celebration. Donald Trump consistently refuses to recognize the legi...

Christian Agnostics

18.05.2024

Christian Agnostics: By Their Fruits

Jesus famously said that “by their fruits you shall know them.” He made it clear that what he meant was that good people do good things, b...

Christian Agnostics

23.03.2024

Christian Agnostics: Fiction that Makes You Think

I have just finished reading my third science fiction novel by the twentieth-century French writer René Barjavel. I have written previously ...

Christian Agnostics

24.02.2024

Christian Agnostics: I Am Not Afraid to Die

I am not afraid to die, even though I am agnostic about the afterlife, if there is one—about judgment, bliss, suffering, and all the other...

Christian Agnostics

17.02.2024

Christian Agnostics: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

This is the phrase that celebrity physicist Richard Feynman used to describe the joy of scientific research. But it also describes the joy...

Christian Agnostics

03.02.2024

Christian Agnostics: The End of Creativity

Aldous Huxley wrote a short novel in which he saw a pickup truck speeding out of a Hollywood movie studio, overloaded with unsolicited scr...

Christian Agnostics

06.01.2024

Christian Agnostics: What is Faith?

As a scientist, let me start off by saying what faith is not . It is not simply believing something that somebody else has told you. F...

Christian Agnostics

08.12.2023

Christian Agnostics: What a Secular Society Looks Like

I have relocated permanently to Strasbourg, France, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. There are numerous small and large differences between life...

Christian Agnostics

22.10.2023

Christian Agnostics: Poverty and Blame: A Message from Fluff the Cottonwood

Hello, this is Fluff the Cottonwood Tree near Stan’s house in Tulsa. He has given me permission to post these observations on his blog. My p...

Christian Agnostics

13.10.2023

Christian Agnostics: The Climate Has Changed Before, so Don't Worry?

Nearly everyone now knows that climate change is real, and that humans are either causing it or making it worse. So I don’t discuss it wit...

Christian Agnostics

13.10.2023

Christian Agnostics: What Should the World Be Like? Republicans and Gun Violence

Republicans talk a lot about what the world should be like, following the example of the late hatemonger Rush Limbaugh in his book The Way...

Christian Agnostics

13.10.2023

Christian Agnostics: Christianity Used to be Interesting

I was an active fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA), and went to their national meetings whenever I could, mostly in the ...

Christian Agnostics

16.09.2023

Christian Agnostics: Thomas Gilcrease: Master of Altruism

As described in Connie Cronley’s masterful and readable biography of the Oklahoma progressive crusader Kate Barnard , young Native men and...

Christian Agnostics

01.09.2023

Christian Agnostics: Corporate War on Altruism

Altruism, which I have defined many times in many ways on this blog, is doing well by doing good. It is not selfless sacrifice. The altrui...

Christian Agnostics

25.08.2023

Christian Agnostics: Race and History, As If You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part two.

Jackson Barnett was an easy-going, illiterate, uneducated Creek Indian who lived near Henryetta, Oklahoma. The federal government forced h...

Christian Agnostics

18.08.2023

Christian Agnostics: Race and History, As If You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part one.

If there is one thing that conservatives are proud of in America, it is that rich people can do whatever they want with their money, so long...

Christian Agnostics

12.08.2023

Christian Agnostics: No Such Thing as Truth

It used to be, decades ago, the political left that believed in factual relativism. There are still a few examples today. But now factual ...

Christian Agnostics

05.08.2023

Christian Agnostics: The Brutal Truth

In science, literal truth is enshrined as the ultimate good. We like to imagine that we tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but t...

Christian Agnostics

29.07.2023

Christian Agnostics: Just Go Dump Your Mining Wastes on the Native Americans: A Recycling Story

The Quapaw Native American town of Picher, Oklahoma once had the biggest lead mine in the world. Half of all the zinc and lead used by the U...

Christian Agnostics

21.07.2023

Christian Agnostics: La Bête Humaine

This is the title of an 1890 French novel by Émile Zola. I read an English translation that retained the original French title. (The e-cir...

Christian Agnostics

14.07.2023

Christian Agnostics: Hell: An Update

On April 29, I posted an essay on this blog in which I said that eternal torture in Hell was impossible because any mind, even artificial in...

Christian Agnostics

20.05.2023

Christian Agnostics: And He Became a Living Soul

I do not write in this blog very much about abortion, since I do not fully understand the issues. But I heard an interesting news report f...

Christian Agnostics

11.05.2023

Christian Agnostics: Uncommon Happiness

How many people are really happy? Assuming we can even define happiness. The one thing we can be sure of is this: far fewer people are happ...

Christian Agnostics

06.05.2023

Christian Agnostics: What I Learned from Robert Ripley

Do you remember the cartoonist Robert Ripley, who ran a series called Believe It Or Not! in newspapers across the country (and probably t...

Christian Agnostics

29.04.2023

Christian Agnostics: The Mind and Eternal Torture in Hell

One of the most important abilities of the human mind is the ability to “tune out” sensory information that is constant and ongoing. This al...

Christian Agnostics

23.04.2023

Christian Agnostics: Yet Another Earth Day

Every April 22 since 1970, we have had a worldwide Earth Day celebration. Back in the early days, there seemed to be a lot of enthusiasm for...

Christian Agnostics

15.04.2023

Christian Agnostics: Fiction Can Make Us More Humane

I have been reading recently about how white Americans have slaughtered Natives in gruesome ways, hundreds or thousands of times. This is ou...

Christian Agnostics

11.02.2023

Christian Agnostics: Insights from Old Notes

I have been going through old notes and papers from thirty years ago, when I was still religious though not a creationist, and recycling mos...

Christian Agnostics

15.01.2023

Christian Agnostics: Slavery and Natural Selection

I have been reading the book about runaway slaves by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger . It is an overwhelming book because it contai...

Christian Agnostics

06.01.2023

Christian Agnostics: January 6 and the Legacies of Slavery

Can you believe it, I have only now read Uncle Tom’s Cabin? This was Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, which began serialization in 1851, abou...

Christian Agnostics

05.01.2023

Christian Agnostics: "The Bible says..." about Slavery

Fundamentalist Christians universally claim, “The Bible says it, I believe it, and that settles it.” But this statement is, even from a lite...

Christian Agnostics

01.01.2023

Christian Agnostics: John Muir's Campbellite Father

John Muir’s father, on his farm in Wisconsin, was a Campbellite. And so, about 150 years later, was I. What does this mean? Following the ...

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Christian Agnostics - Science

Christian Agnostics: Vanishing Utopias

Christian Agnostics: The Stars in their Courses

Christian Agnostics: Gutenberg and Printing: A View from Strasbourg

Christian Agnostics: Happiness Is Fill in the Blank

Christian Agnostics: As Always, Mark Twain

Christian Agnostics: Philosophical Debate of Two Fetuses

Christian Agnostics: Gutenberg and Printing: A View from Strasbourg

Christian Agnostics: White Superiority? Not.

Christian Agnostics: Will America Celebrate July 4, 2025?

Christian Agnostics: By Their Fruits

Christian Agnostics: Fiction that Makes You Think

Christian Agnostics: I Am Not Afraid to Die

Christian Agnostics: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Christian Agnostics: The End of Creativity

Christian Agnostics: What is Faith?

Christian Agnostics: What a Secular Society Looks Like

Christian Agnostics: Poverty and Blame: A Message from Fluff the Cottonwood

Christian Agnostics: The Climate Has Changed Before, so Don't Worry?

Christian Agnostics: What Should the World Be Like? Republicans and Gun Violence

Christian Agnostics: Christianity Used to be Interesting

Christian Agnostics: Thomas Gilcrease: Master of Altruism

Christian Agnostics: Corporate War on Altruism

Christian Agnostics: Race and History, As If You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part two.

Christian Agnostics: Race and History, As If You Needed Another Example: Jackson Barnett, part one.

Christian Agnostics: No Such Thing as Truth

Christian Agnostics: The Brutal Truth

Christian Agnostics: Just Go Dump Your Mining Wastes on the Native Americans: A Recycling Story

Christian Agnostics: La Bête Humaine

Christian Agnostics: Hell: An Update

Christian Agnostics: And He Became a Living Soul

Christian Agnostics: Uncommon Happiness

Christian Agnostics: What I Learned from Robert Ripley

Christian Agnostics: The Mind and Eternal Torture in Hell

Christian Agnostics: Yet Another Earth Day

Christian Agnostics: Fiction Can Make Us More Humane

Christian Agnostics: Insights from Old Notes

Christian Agnostics: Slavery and Natural Selection

Christian Agnostics: January 6 and the Legacies of Slavery

Christian Agnostics: "The Bible says..." about Slavery

Christian Agnostics: John Muir's Campbellite Father

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