Tag Archives: supernaturalism

Ask Dr. O 2 – Supernaturalism and Naturalism: Get Your “-isms” Right, or the Super-Duper, the Super, and the Ordinary

by | November 9, 2019

— By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Dr. David L. Orenstein is a Full Professor of Anthropology at Medgar Evers College of the CUNY (City University of New York) who has authored two books: Godless Grace: How Non-Believers are Making the World Safer Richer and Kinder (2015) and Darwin’s Apostles (2019). In early professional training, Orenstein was a  primatologist, he grew into a prominent… Read more »

Interview with Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff on BC Legislature Prayers

by | September 18, 2019

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Dr. Teale Phelps Bondaroff is a Debate Coach, Policy-Maker, and Researcher with a focus on community and sustainability. He is on the Board of the Greater Victoria Placemaking Network. He runs a free library in Rutledge Park. He earned a Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge. Here… Read more »

Ask Mubarak 3 – Better Than a Candle: Humanism as a Light in the Ethical Night

by | August 5, 2019

By Scott Douglas Jacobsen Mubarak Bala is the President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria. We will be conducting this educational series to learn more about humanism and secularism within Nigeria. Here we talk about Nigerian freethought and freedom of expression. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Humanism seems to wring the supernaturalism out of the ethical systems of the… Read more »