How I escaped the shackles of Christianity. Listen to my story on the Ask An Atheist show with John Richards.

Death and aging are full of mysteries. If survival is nature’s greatest instinct, why will natural selection/evolution not allow us to live forever?

This is part 2 of my discussion about senescence as a reason for why we age and die.

You have been dying since the moment you were born. The mechanism that tries to prevent cancer and death will eventually turn on you.

Your life would not be possible without a particular molecular shape. Your DNA and sugars are shaped just right. Blame it on the universe’s bias for life to point in a particular direction.

When you cannot call on Jesus to fix your leaking sink and damaged car, maybe you also must call on yourself to fix your mental and emotional wounds.

Many microscopic and invisible things give us life. The spirit is not one of them. We have instruments to observe life-giving biological agents. We have not observed spirits.

Some Christians have argued that entropy makes evolution impossible and instead begs for a creator, as things are said to go from order to disorder. But that is not always the case.

The Bible talks about storing up your treasures in Heaven where they cannot rust. Did they ever consider the chemistry of rust and how it is inevitable in one way or another?

Religious texts like to use light as a powerful metaphor for goodness and truth. What they do not tell you is how we have evolved to see it!

If kidney stones are related to DNA, and DNA is the language of God, would that mean that God is responsible for your kidney stones?

You would not be able to think, act, work, and talk correctly without these charged particles that keep you feeling normal.

Here, I delve into facts about this event, the important characters who have commented on it throughout the years, and the psychology of those who still believe. Have we been visited by aliens? Find out!

Spoiler alert - it isn’t ghouls.

As the world of electrons and atoms appear to be so quantumly unpredictable, there is one thing that appears common and predictable in all living things.

The only energies that psychics and mediums work with are those in the neon signs outside their business. Let’s delve into the real science of energy.

“Matter is neither created nor destroyed” is a saying you might hold onto for believing in an afterlife. But the meaning of that scientific law does not equal an afterlife. Let me explain why.

In this post I critique claims of the demonic from the Vatican’s Chief Exorcist, Fr. Gabriele Amorth. It is time we take a look at something people have believed in for thousands of years but have lacked the evidence.

What do you have in common with a whale and a bacterium? You share the characteristics of life, without which there can be no life.

If you’re from Pittsburgh, discover a hidden Large Hadron Collider in your back yard.