Morality; Objective or Subjective? — Atheists often rant about apologists who say, “You reject God because you want to sin.” I get why that trope is as annoying as an IRS audit. …

If I knew how to get something from nothing, I wouldn’t be writing for Medium’s low wages; I’d have a safe that made gold out of thin air. Can You Get Something from Nothing? What People Think Versus What They Really Know Common sense informs us that you can’t get something from nothing; nobody’s ever seen ex nihilo creation happen, or so they say…

When vetting new Twitter followers, if one has apparent hints it is a bot: • Ignore, • Remove, • Block?

Here’s what I mean by abuse. — I keep DMs open on social media because I want other writers and readers to be able to message me without my having to share my email address. But with over 35,000 followers on social media, I have to block those who abuse DMs I’m sure it is difficult to…

It’s Easy to See What Is. Why Do so Few See What Could Be? — I’m a little over halfway through Future Shock; shocking though it might be that I delayed reading the bestseller for 52 years. For those who haven’t read it or who read it so long ago, you no longer recall what it said; I can provide a brief snapshot of my…

Learn When We Were Great and Why We Faded. — Ronald Reagan famously said, “America is a shining city upon a hill whose beacon light guides freedom-loving people everywhere.” It was when it was founded, but it has not merited such praise for a very long time. Let’s relight that beacon of greatness. Right now, you might be asking yourself…

TAG, Transcendental Arguments for the Existence of God — TAG arguments for a god assume that A is required for B to exist. B exists; therefore, A must necessarily exist. The devil is in the details of the two premises. TAG arguments take the form of a syllogism, and there is nothing wrong with using syllogistic logic. So long…

Why is Big Media Propaganda Helping Them? — Of course, the media, giddy about the GOP’s embrace of fascism, will falsely claim Joe Biden’s ‘reckless spending’ is causing US inflation. They will insist the pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — the primary drivers of inflation — had little or nothing to do with it. They will pretend…

Curb pollution now, or most of Earth’s 7.9 billion humans will die. — It’s sweltering here in usually cool New England — and just about everywhere else in the Northern Hemisphere. Hell, even the Southern Hemisphere is cooking, and it’s supposed to be the middle of their winter. …