Evidence for religion. A widespread prejudice among the anti-religious is that no evidence exists for religious phenomena as miracles, God,...

The Wall St Journal carries the intriguing story of neurological research that suggests many of our decisions are made before our conscious...

The internets are a strange place. I give you the site of one Dave Michael Linehan, allegedly associated with the University of Tennessee, ...

Despite some unconvincing attempts at hype , the "Atlas Shrugged" movie is - somewhat predictably - still faltering at the develop...

Deism. In December of 2004, Anthony Flew, who for most of his career had championed atheism, announced his "conversion" to theism...

Anne Heller's much awaited new biography is scheduled for February 09. For a flavour of Heller's style, which appears to be a refres...

It's pretty old news now that the grandioise, heavily Objectivist-influenced education project Founders College has gone belly up . But...

Agnosticism. Peikoff has this to say of agnosticism: [There is] a widespread approach to ideas which Objectivism repudiates altogether: ag...

Does belief in the relativity of truth lead to dishonesty? A fascinating article in the San Francisco Examiner looks into the differences ...

Peikoff’s arguments against God. Peikoff, in his book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand , provides several arguments against the exis...

Religion and freedom. Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” argues that religion is logically incompatible with freedom and in...

Aquinas and Rand. Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” credits Thomas Aquinas, the great philosopher of Catholicism, for lead...

Did Christianity cause the Dark Ages? Peikoff, in his essay “ Religion Versus America ,” more or less claims that Christianity was responsi...

Ideas and doctrine as scapegoat. To what extent are ideas, doctrines, beliefs responsible for conduct? To what extent is any doctrine respo...

Religion as a source of comfort. The Australian philosopher David Stove, despite regarding religion as little more than a psychological “de...

Force and Faith. As is well known among her admirers, Rand saw s linkage between force and faith. “These,” she insisted, “are corollaries: ...

I won't be posting much for a while as I'm busy launching a new business, among other things. Greg will be posting as the spirit mov...

The Role of Myth. In my last post, I briefly analyzed some of the issues dealing with trying to determine how religious beliefs affect indi...

“One of the greatest distortions [of social analysis] views [historical phenomenon] as the consequences of certain logical interpretations o...