Having written much about Aleister Crowley and his influence upon pop-occulture I will herein continue considering personages who have looked to the to mega therion / the great beast for inspiration. Find our previous articles on Crowley here—which range from L. Ron Hubbard’s Scientology to Damien Echols (of the West Memphis Three-WM3 murders infamy) and…

University refers to only to a supposed institute of higher learning but to that which such an institute is supposed to promulgate; a whole, aggregate, entire, etc. view of the world. Ask the question, “What is a human being?” for example, of a biologist, a physicist, a theologian, a mathematician, an economist, a politician, an…

How would you answer the question, “Do you believe in evolution?” “Yes” or “No” would actually be quite inadequate. We must define our terms. Thus, the answer to the question, “Do you believe in evolution?” ought to be, “What do you mean when you say ‘evolution’? Answer me that question and only then will I…

In a fascinating article, we learn what happens when a scientist wastes his God given talent turning his scientific pursuits into seeking to do away with God. Dominique Mosbergen wrote Stephen Hawking Says ‘There Is No God,’ Confirms He’s An Atheist (Huffington Post, September 25, 2014 AD) wherein she notes: Stephen Hawking says he’s an…

This essay will focus on one biblical instance of an appearance of God in human form millennia before the time of Jesus and the polemical issues which orbit around it. Part 1: Considering the Text Part 2: Considering the Polemic Part 3: Considering the Polemic (continued) Part 4: Anthropomorphic Idolatry Part 5: Face to Face…

Some of my books, all of which you can find here or here: Social networks: My Amazon author’s page Facebook Twitter YouTube Archive video site Ken Ammi’s Product Reviews My CafePress shop Google + Norm Geisler references TrueFreethinker.com: Apologeticspress.com’s Kyle Butt references TrueFreethinker.com: Read the article about which Gary Habermas, PhD (Distinguished Research Professor &…

Massimo Pigliucci treks from science and philosophy to urging us to “reject religious nonsense” and affirming that “no scientist today would defend…the original version of Darwin’s theory.” Pigliucci is the professor of ecology and evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Lehman College.…

The Art of Public Speaking 1946 AD book by Stephen Lucas is a book that has gone through a lot of updating. In this case, I am dealing with the 10th edition which McGraw Hill published in 2009 AD as part of its Higher Education series. This version of the book is a finely crafted…

You may think that considering life to have come about when lightning struck a swamp (or, plump this up with the impressive sounding scientific language of your choosing) is the stuff of the Victorian Era—oh my, why, I’ve never! That’s, like, so 141 years ago! Well, no, no, no, no one believes that anymore as…

Step 1: define “science” as only dealing with the natural / material. Step 2: define “God” as supernatural / immaterial. Step 3: conclude that there is no scientific evidence for God. In this way, they not only conclude that there is no scientific evidence for God but they construct a worldview according to which it…