Evolution of Enzymes
Enzymes and the speed of chemical reactions were important to evolution billions of years ago.
Alzheimer’s Argument Against the Soul—Part 2
The soul/spirit cannot exist if we can see material decay of consciousness. Alzheimer’s disease includes genetic factors that demonstrate the material decay of consciousness. This is a physicalist view on consciousness/brain.
What Causes Chemical Reactions?
What causes your chemical reactions? How do you get them? What does your body share with your household items?
The Laws of Thermodynamics
What are the laws of thermodynamics and how do they affect our biology and our lives?
The Alzheimer’s Argument Against Immaterial Consciousness
Alzheimer’s Disease exemplifies how consciousness is rooted in the brain. Contrary to Christianity’s claims, consciousness is not rooted in anything immaterial.
Why I Am Not A Christian
How I escaped the shackles of Christianity. Listen to my story on the Ask An Atheist show with John Richards.
Why Does Evolution Not Allow Us to Live Forever?
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?
Why We Age and Die— Senescence: Part 2
This is part 2 of my discussion about senescence as a reason for why we age and die.
Why We Die—Senescence: Part I
You have been dying since the moment you were born. The mechanism that tries to prevent cancer and death will eventually turn on you.
The Universe is Biased For a Specific Molecular Shape
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.
Christianity is NOT the Answer to Everything
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.
The Spirit that Cannot Give Life
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.
Order-Disorder Is Not Evidence For God
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 Golden Scheme For Getting Into Heaven
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?
How Did We Evolve Eyes to See?
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!
Did God Give You Kidney Stones?
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?
Charged Particles That Stop You From Falling Apart
You would not be able to think, act, work, and talk correctly without these charged particles that keep you feeling normal.
The Kecksburg UFO Incident of 1965
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!