Tag Archives: Skeptic

Proofs That Don’t Prove

by | August 7, 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. — Throughout history, various religious scholars devised arguments to prove God’s existence. Best-known is “intelligent design.” It… Read more »

The Brainstorm Podcast: “Christcore(and other stuff)”

by | December 4, 2019

By The Brainstorm Podcast The Brainstorm podcast is Saskatchewan’s first skeptic and atheist podcast. An eclectic group of local skeptics discuss a variety of topics relating to science, skepticism, religion and politics while having a few drinks and a few laughs. “Christcore(and other stuff)” episode link here: http://brainstormpodcast.ca/christcoreand-other-stuff Original release date: Jan 13, 2014 Finally part… Read more »

Einstein: Brilliant Skeptic

by | November 19, 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. — Everyone, everywhere knows of Albert Einstein as a worldwide symbol of scientific genius. Most remember that… Read more »

Everyone Is a Skeptic

by | September 15, 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 aware… Read more »

James Baldwin: Brilliant Skeptic

by | August 29, 2019

— By James Haught (Haught is editor of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette, and a senior editor of Free Inquiry. This article first appeared in Free Inquiry, Fall 2000.) Here’s an interesting literary footnote: James Baldwin, arguably America’s greatest black writer, was a popular Pentecostal preacher in Harlem at age 14 — but at 17 he renounced… Read more »