Dana Severance

The first in my series on logical fallacies, the appeal to belief, is simple. It is the fallacious argument that because you, I, or anyone else believes something, that belief somehow confers validity to the argument. Traditionally, it’s similar to an appeal to populous, but I’ve been hearing it applied more and more recently to [...]

I would like to start this off with everyone being very clear that I am an atheist. I do not believe in any deities. There simply isn’t sufficient evidence to prove them empirically. However, I hear many people argue that religion is not a position of proof but rather of faith. Many of these same individuals call their particular deity their Heavenly Father.

Disclaimer: There will be some graphic pictures after the jump, so beware. These are the realities of our world.

I am a resident of Oregon and it pains me to see what is going on in the Nation’s capital. From here, it looks like the Nation’s unemployed and America’s lower income families are being ransomed.

I find one of the most troubling things today is the lack of scientific knowledge in the general populous of America. More than any other ideology, Creationism seems fueled by an ignorance of our natural world and the foundations of what science actually is. According to a Gallup Poll in 2008, 44% believed that a [...]

As an atheist, I get a bit irritated when I see federal institutions endorsing religion, even if it is de facto. There is an odd rallying cry recently of “take back America”, which fascinates me. Many forget that a lot of the Christian elements in our society are relatively new.