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Everything Wrong with the Noah's Ark Story

How scientific and historical evidence demonstrate that the Biblical worldwide flood is not real and possible Just like other children...

PRATT

Jul 31, 202158 min read

Why Almost Everyone is Wrong About Being Open-Minded

The Incoherence of the Idea of Supernatural The world is full of unreasonable people. There are people who claim any wishy-washy...

Skeptic's Diary

May 11, 202112 min read

Christmas in the Eyes of an Atheist

A Non-Believer's Perspective on Celebrating Christmas in the Philippines I can still vividly picture my very first Christmas as an...

Skeptic's Diary

Dec 28, 202026 min read

I Took a Political Compass Test, and Here are My Results

Identifying my political spectrum and showing my personal political beliefs Politics is a lot more complicated than you think, and when...

Skeptic's Diary

Jul 12, 202020 min read

36 Nonsensical Things People Say to Atheists

A list of things that skeptics and non-believers are sick of hearing from theists who always say it like a broken record If you are an...

PRATT

Jul 10, 202031 min read

Expanding the Problems of an Omni-God

Elaborating the reasons why an omnipotent and omniscient being does not and cannot exist in the objective external reality So what do we...

Essays of an Atheist

Jul 2, 202035 min read

God's Existence and the Null Hypothesis

Discussions about why the lack of evidence alone is already a valid reason to reject the idea of the existence of a deity The existence...

Essays of an Atheist

Jun 30, 202030 min read

20 Times When Christopher Hitchens Hitchslapped Someone

Compilations of Hitchens owning and destroying people in debates and interviews "If you're a religious apologist invited to debate...

Quotes and Miscellaneous

Jun 29, 202036 min read

Quotes from a Rationalist: The Words of Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins (1941-) is a British evolutionary biologist, ethologist, author, science educator, one of the members of the Royal...

Quotes and Miscellaneous

Jun 27, 202035 min read

The Wonders of Pragmatic Empirical Rationalism

Demonstrating why science is our best method of finding out what is true in our objective reality Throughout the history, philosophers...

Essays of an Atheist

Jun 27, 202022 min read

Quotes from a Skeptic: The Words of Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, astrophysicist, cosmologist, science educator, and author. He was...

Quotes and Miscellaneous

Jun 26, 202023 min read

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Live your life to the fullest. Seek knowledge. Dare to be curious. Always ask. Never stop learning. Think for yourself.

Secular humanist, freethinker, nonbeliever, heretic, atheist, skeptic. Whatever you might want to call it. Being irreligious in a country full of devoutly religious can be a struggle. It's not all about just having the freedom to say that one is unconvinced of God's existence, but also about the freedom to question the authority through rationality and to squander superstition. This is John Michael Silerio: writer, researcher, historophile, and inquisitor. Currently studying BA History at the University of the Philippines. Sapere aude!