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Evolution Produced All Life, Including Skeptics

by | November 28, 2021

By James Haught Evolution is astounding. The mind boggles to realize that natural selection — driven by weak hydrogen bonds that let the long DNA molecule unzip and replicate itself — could produce the planet’s incredible array of millions of living species, including humans. It’s almost unbelievable. How could such amazing diversity come from a self-replicating molecule? How can… Read more »

Living With Absurdity

by | November 13, 2020

By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — (Jan. 27, 2020 – Daylight Atheism) Existentialists see that life is profoundly absurd. Here’s why: People… Read more »

Religion-Tinged Politics

by | November 24, 2019

By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — White evangelicals put Donald Trump into the White House.  They swarmed to the 2016 election in high… Read more »

Evolution debate is about honesty

by | November 17, 2019

By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — Public schools in my state suffered a Bible Belt attack on evolution.  In my newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail,… Read more »

Evolution Produced All Life, Including Skeptics

by | November 11, 2019

By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back. — Evolution is astounding.  The mind boggles to realize that natural selection – driven by weak hydrogen bonds… Read more »

Theology and Honesty

by | September 2, 2019

— By James Haught James Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry.. He is 87-years-old and would like to help secular causes more. This series is a way of giving back, as he opens in No Qualms (Ed., published on 2018, July 18, i.e., when he was 86), “I’m quite… Read more »