IHS NewsPresident’s Plan Has Been A Colossal Constitutional And Public Policy Failure, Says AU’s Lynn.
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Roberto Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University, will review the processes by which US intelligence agencies are stepping up efforts to recruit young people for IC (intelligence community) careers. In particular, he will examine the genesis and development of the multimillion dollar IC-CAE (Intelligence Community-Centers of Academic Excellence) program which has […]
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A celebration of Darwin’s birth has been held since 1980. Darwin gave humanity the concept of natural selection, which led to the theory of evolution. Lincoln gave humanity the Emancipation Proclamation which led to the theory of slavery as an abomination.
Western civilization now accepts that slavery is evil.
Some persons aren’t convinced about evolution, however.
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 20, 2008) — New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
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What have I done that I can neither cross my own threshold nor enjoy human company?
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Hear essay by Thomas De Zengotita: “Common Ground-Finding our way back to the Enlightenment”
Are universal enlightenment ideals something that the majority of human beings can relate to? What if we took the lessons learned from identity politics and reframed them in universal Humanistic terms so that we could make Humanism more relevant to people from […]
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The United States Constitution never uses the word “God” or makes mention of any religion, drawing its sole authority from “We the People.” However, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee thinks it’s time to put an end to that.
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Camp Quest West prepares for its third camp year, again providing a fun learning experience for children of parents who prefer avoiding connections to religious topics. This is not to say parents wish to avoid morality and ethical matters. Quite the contrary, they desire development of their children’s abilities to think responsibly for themselves. […]
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An intellectual war of words has broken out between two of the world’s leading evolutionists. Oxford University’s Richard Dawkins and Harvard’s Edward Wilson have gone head to head over the evolution of altruism in the animal kingdom, and whether it can have come about as a result of something called group selection.
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The TIME article called “Sunday school for Atheists” in December 2007 drew some attention to parents and children who are nonbelievers. As a parent who has a couple of children in the older children’s program, I felt that the TIME article didn’t really reflect our Sunday program. So, I thought to focus on the […]
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