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The combination of human and artificial intelligence will define humanity’s future

Now, through the combination of HI and AI, we are at the brink of the most consequential technological development of our time, and in history.

Genome Sequencing for Healthy People: Is it Time?

More of us are asking this question: why not also use genome sequencing to help seemingly healthy people screen for all sorts of conditions?

Captive Virgins, Polygamy, Sex Slaves: What Marriage Would Look Like if We Actually Followed the Bible

Since many Christians haven’t read the whole Bible, most “Bible believers” are not, as they like to claim, actually Bible believers.

It’s Time for Robots to Mine the Asteroids

Counter intuitively, the primary obstacles are not technical. Rather it is government inaction, in both funding and regulation.

If the Bible Were Law, Would You Qualify for the Death Penalty?

Working on the Sabbath: “Whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.” Exodus 31:15

Twenty Vile Quotes Against Women By Church Leaders from St. Augustine to Pat Robertson

Even the media’s most unabashed misogynists are tame compared to some of the biggest names in Christian history.

8 Ways the Religious Right Wins Converts – To Atheism

If the Christian Right had the sole objective of decimating religious belief, they couldn’t be doing a better job of it.

8 Ugly Sins of the Catholic Church

Catholic bishops have direct access to the White House, where they regularly weigh in on issues ranging from military policy to bioethics.

The Atheist Atrocities Fallacy – Hitler, Stalin & Pol Pot

Religious apologists, particularly those of the Christian variety, are big fans of what I have dubbed, the atheist atrocities fallacy.

These 15 Bible texts reveal why the GOP is waging a menacing war on women

Fundamentalists are fighting desperately to hang on to certainties and privileges they once saw as an Abrahamic birthright.

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