By Jeremy Fejfar Anyone who has seen the pictures sent back by the Hubble space telescope knows that a belief in a god or the supernatural isn’t necessary to inspire awe. Through science, reality’s wonder is revealed to us. Despite not being able to discern our movement directly, reasoning and Read more
by George Kane Our public meeting in May was our largest of the year, with over 100 people turning out to hear the American Humanist Association’s Humanist of the Year and celebrated science blogger P. Z. Myers tackle the question of whether science and religion can coexist. Myers answered that Read more
By Eric Jayne About one in five known pregnancies ends in a natural abortion (i.e. miscarriage) according to the Mayo Clinic website. If the American Pregnancy Association is right there are about 6 million known pregnancies every year in the United States. That means that there are roughly 1.2 million Read more
By Lee Salisbury In a recent letter to the Stillwater Gazette editor, Chris Nitardy claims that Secular Humanism is a religion and that this religion kicked God out of our schools, thereby prohibiting prayer in schools. Wow! Too bad Chris’ religion isn’t as powerful; it too would be able to Read more
by Nathan Ray I was raised in Elk River and went to church as a child with my family. Around age twelve I was given a choice of continuing to go to church or stop going. The choice was clear: I was done. I knew church was not for me. Read more