If there is, by chance, an omnipotent being lurking around up there—somewhere out in the vast cosmic expanse—I imagine that, after creating the cosmos, the Earth, and all the living things upon it, this god... Read More

TheHumanist.com is pleased to welcome a new addition to the Comics Section: Raging Pencils! Since 2008, cartoonist Mike Stanfill has been producing humorous comics on progressive philosophy and atheism, and he creates a weekly comic... Read More

The US Presidential Election season is upon us! Test how well you know some of the presidential candidates based on the occasionally smart and often stupid things they say. Click to take our presidential candidates... Read More

There are few scientists alive today who have had as far-reaching an impact as Edward O. Wilson. With a career spanning more than half a century, he is the author of thirty books in which... Read More

In 1952, with the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president, a small, chariot-driving clan of Christian evangelicals stormed the national stage, bent on foisting their religious claims into American law, custom, and ceremony. The... Read More

Hector A. Garcia’s new book, Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression, successfully draws parallels between violence in human evolution and in dominant religions. He effectively illustrates the salience of the connection with... Read More

The New York Times reviewed Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire by immediately reminding readers that Crane, “America’s first rock-star writer,” appears on the album cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.... Read More