Thomas Sheedy

Now The Atlantic is osculating religion, as is much of the MSM. In this piece Elizabeth Breunig argues that scientific arguments for religious beliefs are misguided. Belief itself suffices to tell you what's real. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/03/27/now…

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Throughout the 20th century, average IQ scores rose year after year. In recent decades, that trend appears to have reversed . @sapinker discusses why on our podcast.

Sunrise on Calala Island, view from my room

March 26 is #ScienceAppreciationDay. But for science you probably wouldn’t have reached your latest birthday. Talking of birthdays, March 26 is my 85th. Science saves lives. It’s also humanity’s best shot at universal understanding: one of the things that makes life worth saving.

Fifty years ago, The Selfish Gene reframed how we understand life. Think like a gene, and suddenly things click: why bats share blood, why viruses spread, why life behaves the way it does. Still one of the most useful lenses evolution ever gave us: newscientist.com/article/251989…

No accountability. God's got him. 🤪

Thom Sheedy (@SheedyThom) on the growing alliance of woke leftists ◀️...and Islamists ☪️ + much more 👉 Get the truth on 'News Sight:' twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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Ex-Communicating Richard Dawkins was the wrong move for the New Atheism Movement. #atheism #atheist #excommunication #richarddawkins

If improving your life threatens a friendship, the friendship was conditional on you staying the same.

From THE GOD DEBATE: Me: The more religious the society, the worse the problems are. And if you don't believe it, consider some of the world's most irreligious societies, like Norway, Netherlands, and New Zealand. They're pretty nice places to live. Now consider some of the world's most religious countries, like Afghanistan and Congo. Those are places that people want to get out of. This is also true in a comparison across American states. The more religious, the more dysfunctional. Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT): What we should wish as Americans is to be neither Afghanistan nor Scandinavia, but to be the United States of America, which as a culture has always done an incredible job of balancing some of the absolute, definite benefits of modernity, including religious toleration, a respect for pluralism, a refusal to simply sort of impose the totality of one religion's theological doctrines on society with an abundant faith in a cosmic purpose for the human race. And obviously there are downsides to religious intensity. Those downsides are often manifested in zealous intolerance. There are also serious downsides to religious indifference, which are often manifested in anomie, drift, and despair. And it is simply the case that if you look across the developed world today, there is a strong correlation between secularization and a kind of loss of faith in human purpose and the human future, manifested most starkly in the declining birth rates that make it extremely unlikely that Dr. Pinker's predictions about the inevitable triumph of secularism and humanism over religion will come to pass, because the secularists and humanists don't seem to be making the basic choices that would enable the continuation of the human race.

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Coming to Emory University Tuesday April 14 for a talk on truth and Truth! See you all then and there. Looking forward...

I am pleased to announce that this new collection of critiques of wokeness, including one by me, is out today. Edited by Jon Mills. I explain the woke vision of human nature (blank slate), woke racism, woke academia, and woke science. Check it out! a.co/d/00d9TXVV

DEBATE: Are We Better Off With God? - I say: "We’d be better off with a greater sense of a common purpose: with more trust and less polarization. We’d be better off with more knowledge: of how to solve big problems like scarcity, disease, violence, and energy. And we’d be better off with moral clarity: with defensible convictions about right and wrong and where to invest our moral energy. God gives us none of these." NYT columnist Ross Douthat, author of Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious disagrees. The Free Press thefp.com/p/debate-do-we…

The God Debate: Ross Douthat v. Steven Pinker

This has to be the dumbest post on X this week, possibly this year @NatHalberstadt You have no idea what you're talking about. No one "worships" @sapinker He is respected because he is a great scientist who makes cogent arguments w/evidence. Read: The Blank Slate, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Enlightenment Now, Rationality, and Why Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows... all original works of great scholarship, NOT pop entertainment. What you're "tired" of is the respect honorable thinkers like Pinker garner because of their work. You should try it! Try taking a deep topic like human nature, violence, progress, or reason, then write a 500-page book about it that incorporates 500 years of research on the topic, and make it highly readable and entertaining. Go ahead. I'll wait...