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OPEN DISCUSSION FEBRUARY 2022

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In Memoriam, Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey is dead. The obituaries will list his many accomplishments. I didn’t know him well, but the week I spent with him as his guest in 1994, near Lamu on the Kenya coast, is a treasured memory which I tried to capture in mybook, A Devil’s Chaplain:- The engagingly filthy town of Lamu, one …

OPEN DISCUSSION JANUARY 2022

This thread has been created for discussion on themes relevant to Reason and Science for which there are not currently any dedicated threads. Please note that our Comment Policy applies as usual. There is a link to this at the foot of the page. If you would like to refer back to previous open discussion …

BOOK CLUB 2022

This is the 2022 follow-on from the original BOOK CLUB thread, which is now closed, though you can easily refer back to earlier discussions by clicking on the link. BOOK CLUB 2022 has been created to provide a dedicated space for the discussion of books. Pretty much any kind of book – it doesn’t have …

Myth Management

From the Richard Dawkins Foundation Newsletter. Subscribe here. Hello! The scientific method is, without a doubt, the best means of arriving at the truth ever devised. We flawed humans can and do make mistakes in its execution, but the rigorous application of science is what allows us to make discoveries and, perhaps most importantly, verify the …

Hitting the Books with TIES

Since 2015, the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES), a program of the Richard Dawkins Foundation, has been giving teachers the tools they need to effectively teach evolution and answer its critics. After producing hundreds of workshops, dozens of webinars, and troves of free resources and guided lessons, the people who power TIES have learned …

Unabated Unaffiliation

A decade ago, about one out of every five American adults were religiously unaffiliated, according to Pew Research, and that was a big deal. Today in 2021, that number has leapt to three-in-ten. A brand new survey from Pew shows the “rise of the Nones” shows no sign of abating, jumping to 29 percent of …

The One-Man War on Christmas

In 1993, Tom Flynn published the groundbreaking and controversial book The Trouble with Christmas, arguing that it was long past time for the abandonment of this Christian holiday, particularly for nonbelievers. It also brought to life Tom’s perennial alter-ego, the Anti-Claus.  Tom died suddenly this past August, and the latest issue of the magazine he …

The Jesus Debate

Christians believe that Jesus was the son of God and that he walked the Earth as a human being a couple millennia ago. Atheists obviously don’t believe in God, let alone that he produced offspring. But there is less of a consensus around whether the historical Jesus—a mere mortal member of Homo sapiens—ever existed. On …

Subsidizing Bigotry

On December 8, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Carson v. Makin in which parents are suing to force the state of Maine to pay the tuition for their children to attend explicitly religious high schools. Maine already pays for the private school tuition of students in parts of the state …