A strife of interests
Following President Obama’s ambitiously upbeat State of the Union address, I was reminded, all too soon, of this Ambrose Bierce quote.
A Concise History of Evolution and Religion
By Scott Kaelen Scott Kaelen – Flogging a World of Dead Horses Note: This is an extraordinary opportunity for us, here at The Salt Lake Daily Issue, to make available to our readers this remarkably detailed timeline – of some 80 seminal benchmarks to the initial rise of life, and its subsequent evolution – over…
Examining artificial human intelligence
This is a futuristic, sci-fi type of hypothetical, that I’ve broached before, but I’d be interested to hear what some of you might have to say. It has become increasingly apparent that computers will eventually attain to some higher form of, autonomous, artificial intelligence – possibly blurring any line between human intelligence and…
American Atheists and Mormon culture
With the advent of the American Atheists 2014 Convention, in Salt Lake City, Thursday, April 17th, to Sunday, April 20th, there have been many heated discussions – most notably in the comment sections, following stories run in the Salt Lake Tribune, focused and following up on the Atheists of Utah, and the American Atheists…
Re-examining our God of the gaps
It’s not at all uncommon to encounter any number of agnostic non-believers (no, really – there are such folks), apparently up on all the science, but who are still unable – in good conscience – to tic that last box as confirmed atheists. Who default to an almost truculent allusion to that old ‘God of the…
CULTURE WARS
One of the reasons religious folks fight so hard against change, in the world around them, has as much to do with cultural considerations, as any perceived notion concerning God’s will in the matter. They merely mistake – or chose to invoke – God’s will, by conflating religious considerations with entirely cultural ones, in…
A National Day of Prayer
President Obama noted last Thursday, that prayer tends to join people together – in their humanity, and their commonality. And, as noted in The Salt Lake Tribune, Utahans joined other Americans – all across the land – in a National Day of Prayer. As an atheist, I can appreciate how God got invented –…
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