Saturday, January 29, 2022

Arriving at ethics from opposing directions

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By Mathew Goldstein There is a non-theistic and a theistic approach to ethics. While the different approaches will sometimes reach the same ...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

What happens when families can choose ethics instead of religious education?

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By Mathew Goldstein In Germany all public schools were required to provide religious education. Families of children who were not baptized c...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Consciousness maintains homeostasis

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  By Mathew Goldstein More on consciousness, this time from the viewpoint of neuroscientist Antonio Demasio, the author of a number of books...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Is SARS-CoV-2 a Wuhan lab modified virus?

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  By Mathew Goldstein The book   Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19   by Alina Chen and Matt Ridley is currently highly rated on A...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Consciousness from life’s push against entropy

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By Mathew Goldstein Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex. He was recently intervie...
Sunday, August 08, 2021

Are atheists a meaningfully distinct demographic group?

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  By Mathew Goldstein Is there a significant difference between the religiously unaffiliated or between agnostics and atheists? People who a...
Wednesday, August 04, 2021

Walter Plywaski won atheists’ their right to become citizens

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  By Mathew Goldstein Walter Plywaski died this January, about 66 years after he, with the backing of the ACLU, won his legal challenge agai...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Reconciling activism with evidence based policy making

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By Mathew Goldstein There is an ongoing concern, which appears to be well grounded, that some manifestations of activism ...