Today on Rational Hub, we have Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director at NCSE, who was kind enough to give us an interview despite her busy schedule. One of the most popular critics of Creationism and advocates teaching of evolution in the public schools, she is also the author of various books, including Evolution vs. Creationism: [...]
Eminent Pakistani physicist and activist, Professor Hoodbhoy wages a lone battle for secularism, rationalism and skepticism in Pakistan. We are proud to have him here on Rational Hub.
When I came back home this evening , my elder daughter of 13 years showed me an argumentative essay she wrote for her English homework. Topic she was given was , “All teenagers need to rebel in order to grow up”. Needless to say i was stunned. This is how it goes in-her-words as it [...]
Let’s cook up a god, a capital “G” God. Seriously. Let’s bake one right here, right now, and let’s make our God one that’ll be disconcertingly hard not to believe in. It can’t be that challenging. Tens of thousands of gods have been glued together by people far stupider than me and the ingredients to build another [...]
I have only ever suffered one horrific attack in my life that will probably scar me forever. But it didn’t destroy me. I suppose I consider myself luckier than many other women in the world especially in my own ethnic-origins country. I have always been well-fed, cared for (despite some family ups and downs), had [...]
People might know him mostly for his famous debate against William Lane Craig. We are extremely pleased to have Arif Ahmed, the brilliant British philosopher, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy at Cambridge University...
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is an actual word. It means, of all things, a fear of long words and was no doubt coined by a sadist with an eye for the whimsical but about as much sensitivity for the inflicted as a hammer...
It’s coming to us all, there’s no avoiding it, and for far too long religion has occupied the high ground in any conversation concerning it. It’s death, and the balance of power swirling around this rather thorny subject ...