Reviews

By Victor Tanner Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion-Year History of the Human Bodyby Neil Shubin Neil Shubin, a professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, writes an entertaining book that feels much more like a journey through time in which we can watch the evolutionary Read more

By Jeannette Sorensen While reading Philip Pullman’s, His Dark Materials, you need to remind yourself that this book was marketed toward children. There are some strong themes, including violent death which are uncharacteristic of children’s novels. However, with references to physics, philosophy and theology, it is easily enjoyed by adults. Read more

By Grant Steves Atheists should be in the pursuit of knowledge through a rational process.  Margaret Singer has used this rational process to examine the world of cults.  In her book, Cults In Our Midst,  she outlines the research and analysis of what a cult is.  She applies the term Read more

By Grant Steves The Secular Conscience is a highly commendable statement on the need to reclaim the moral compass from the religious right and left.  The assumption that only the religious people have a moral compass is blatantly false.  Because the Pharisaic religious people pray in public and make a Read more

By Grant Steves If all moralities were rooted in the Bible or the god of the Bible, we would have the solution to all moral questions. However, did the morality of indigenous people’s from the Australian aborigines to the Amazon tribal groups develop their morality from the Bible? In both Read more