In Darwin’s time, it was believed that selection occurs at the level of an individual - that an entire creature is either selected or not. But as we learn more about what we are made of,…

No, not ‘faster than light’, but rather ‘for the lose’. And while I will continue to support him (he hasn’t actually made any policy proposals yet), this is perhaps the worst political calculation of Barack Obama…

This is a post I have been waiting to write.

This week I will take two finals, which I am confident I will pass, and then I am finished.

I am graduating from college.

My approach to college, like…

I have always thought of the Tree of Life and the fall of man as a metaphor for maturing.  A child is innocent and does not know right or wrong -  or about its own death…

I’m not sure if the news has penetrated the USA, but I feel like I need to provide a summary of the events that have led up to the temporary time-out of our government. Also, I…

Contributed by John Xu

One thing we atheists seem to pride ourselves more and more these days over religious folks is our sense of morality – if we do good without the need for a supreme supernatural…

Isn’t it amazing how language perpetuates itself? We tend to look at the world as a set of tangible objects interacting with each other. But there is so much more going on around us. A language…

Alright now.

Bare with me.

I am a naturalist. I have come to learn throughout my undergraduate education that science seems to indicate hat the universe has no teleology in of itself. And it seems that evidence, for…

No Respect Needed

If we are to progress as a species, we need to understand differentiation. And this lies in attributing respect, rights and sympathy to the right sphere in an individual. If anything, humans are…