Author: Shawn Dawson
Shawn Dawson is a humanist living in Canada. He is a contributing author to the anthology Voices of Humanism (edited by Gary Bauslaugh) and has been published in periodicals such as Free Inquiry, Humanist Perspectives, and Skeptic.
Bible Theme Parks of the Future
I’ve never been to one, but I imagine that Bible theme parks are amazing creations. Built for the glory of God and the edification of human beings, they are devoted to showing the wonders of God’s creation and teaching visitors truths from the Bible. One of the most famous of these parks—or infamous, perhaps, to …
Church-State Separation for the Impoverished Imaginatio
Among the many frustrating experiences that face humanists, arguing for church-state separation must be one of the worst. I have personally argued till I was blue in the face trying to overcome the intransigent incomprehension of some of my religious acquaintances who could not seem to grasp that something is wrong when church and state …
Denying Evolution
Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science, by Massimo Pigliucci (Sunderland, Mass.: Sinauer Associates Inc., 2002, ISBN 0-87893-659-9) 275 pp., Paperback $24.95. Denying Evolution is a great book and Massimo Pigliucci’s finest work to date. The reader might be forgiven for asking, Why yet another book on the evolution-creationism controversy? In the words …