The Old-Time Religion Underlying Disbelief in God.
Sigmund Freud famously described the psychological phenomenon known as projection, in which a person projects their own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors onto others. This allows one to avoid recognizing these traits in themselves, and avoid accepting responsibility for their actions. A good example would be a person who is having an affair and thereby…
Is God Real?
Is God real? In short, yes, and this is much easier to perceive when we first consider how our perception of reality has been distorted by our culture: Have you ever suspected that you are living in the matrix? If so, you are not alone. Many very smart people have considered this to be a…
Darwinism is wrong.
Darwinism is wrong. A little story helps to put Darwinism into the broader context of the history of science: Your neighbor Steve receives a knock on the door one day, and two police officers inform him that they are taking him down to station to answer some questions about a recent murder. He is brought…
The origin of life, and the man behind the curtain.
Much as Dorothy’s dog Toto pulled back the curtain to reveal a hidden man creating the illusion of the Wizard of Oz, one can pull back the curtain on the illusion of unintelligent natural mechanisms causing the origin of life. And when the curtain is pulled back on the most often cited evidence for these…