Why Religious Experience Fails as Evidence
Subjective certainty is not evidence—why mystical experience cannot ground public truth claims about the divine
Why Prayer Studies Consistently Disappoint Believers
Controlled studies tested whether prayer heals—the consistent results reveal more about belief than about God
Why Fine-Tuning Arguments Miss Their Target
The universe looks calibrated for life, but the inference to a designer collapses under philosophical scrutiny
How Secular Grief Processing Honors Reality
Finding genuine comfort in mortality's finality without supernatural consolation
How Naturalism Answers Ultimate Questions
Naturalistic worldviews offer substantive answers to questions about origins, purpose, and meaning often claimed as religion's exclusive territory.
How Scripture's Origin Story Undermines Its Authority
The Bible wasn't delivered from heaven—it was assembled through centuries of human composition, political selection, and imperfect copying.
How the Cosmological Argument Self-Destructs
The classic argument for God's existence contains contradictions that dismantle it from within
Why Arguments from Morality Fail for Theism
How the argument from moral facts to divine existence falls apart at every step.
How Religious Moderation Enables Extremism
Mainstream believers may unintentionally provide the epistemic foundation that extremists need to justify violence.
Why Pascal's Wager Is a Losing Bet
Pascal's famous argument for faith collapses under the weight of competing gods, involuntary belief, and a suspicious view of divine priorities.
The Consciousness Problem Dualism Cannot Solve
Dualism doesn't explain consciousness—it relocates the mystery while creating new unsolvable problems.
Why Near-Death Experiences Don't Prove Afterlife
Profound experiences near death reveal the brain's capacity for construction, not consciousness surviving beyond it.
Why Historical Jesus Claims Are More Uncertain Than Presented
The evidence for Jesus is thinner and more problematic than scholarly confidence suggests
Secular Sources of Meaning Religion Cannot Monopolize
How human connection, creative contribution, and finitude generate robust meaning without supernatural foundations or cosmic validation.
The Secular Case for Ritual and Community
Why ritual, community, and contemplative practice don't require supernatural beliefs to deliver their psychological benefits
How Cognitive Science Explains Religious Belief
Cognitive science reveals why human minds generate religious beliefs—and why those beliefs tell us more about ourselves than about reality.
How Secular Ethics Grounds Morality Without God
Discover how philosophical analysis reveals robust moral foundations that stand entirely independent of divine commands or supernatural assumptions.
The Problem of Religious Diversity No Believer Can Escape
Why the accident of your birth determines your deepest convictions—and what this reveals about religious truth claims
Why Humean Skepticism Still Devastates Miracle Claims
Why rational belief in miracles remains impossible even with modern evidence and sincere witnesses
The Hidden Atheism in Theodicy Responses
Sophisticated defenses of God against evil succeed only by describing a deity most believers wouldn't recognize—or worship.
Why 'God of the Gaps' Arguments Always Retreat
How invoking divine explanation for scientific mysteries has failed consistently for centuries, revealing a fundamental flaw in supernatural inference from ignorance.