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Jul 31, 202158 min read

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...

Why Almost Everyone is Wrong About Being Open-Minded

May 11, 202112 min read

Skeptic's Diary

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...

Dec 28, 202026 min read

Skeptic's Diary

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...

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

Jul 12, 202020 min read

Skeptic's Diary

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...

36 Nonsensical Things People Say to Atheists

Jul 10, 202031 min read

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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...

Jul 2, 202035 min read

Essays of an Atheist

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...

Jun 30, 202030 min read

Essays of an Atheist

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...

20 Times When Christopher Hitchens Hitchslapped Someone

Jun 29, 202036 min read

Quotes and Miscellaneous

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 from a Rationalist: The Words of Richard Dawkins

Jun 27, 202035 min read

Quotes and Miscellaneous

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...

The Wonders of Pragmatic Empirical Rationalism

Jun 27, 202022 min read

Essays of an Atheist

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...

Quotes from a Skeptic: The Words of Carl Sagan

Jun 26, 202023 min read

Quotes and Miscellaneous

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...

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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!