Author Archives: R. A. McGough

It’s May 21 – The Harold Camping Delusional Doomsday Memorial Day

By R. A. McGough | Published: May 22, 2013

It’s been two years since Harold Camping had his judgement day. He had spent years proclaiming that “the Bible guaranteed” that the Rapture would happen on May 21, 2011, to be followed by five months of terror on earth known as the “Great Tribulation” before the final destruction of the entire universe. He declared his [...]

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From Life-Long Skeptic to Gullible Young Earth Creationist?

By R. A. McGough | Published: May 20, 2013

I received this comment recently from one Pedro Cuestra who presents himself as a “life-long skeptic” who has “recently come into the knowledge of the God of the (entire) bible” and so is now a Young Earth Creationist. Dear Richard, I recently came across your biblewheel.com and was nearly blown away with it. I say nearly [...]

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Answers for Amber on Why I Quit Christianity

By R. A. McGough | Published: May 17, 2013

Amber asked these questions in the comment stream under my post Explaining Myself where I had answered some questions relating to my Why I Quit Christianity. Hi Mr. Richard, First I just want to say thank you so much for the great work of the bible wheel and site, I’m hoping I’ll be able to buy [...]

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Two Thousand Reasons to Believe Dr. Hugh Ross Might Not Be Entirely Credible

By R. A. McGough | Published: March 29, 2013

Unique among all books ever written, the Bible accurately foretells specific events-in detail-many years, sometimes centuries, before they occur. Approximately 2500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible, about 2000 of which already have been fulfilled to the letter—no errors. ~ Dr. Hugh Ross With these words Dr. Hugh Ross simultaneously opened and eviscerated [...]

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Ending Desertification: Real hope for the future

By R. A. McGough | Published: March 10, 2013

This TED talk realy talks to me. From the description: Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it’s happening to about two-thirds of the world’s grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory [...]

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Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

By R. A. McGough | Published: January 27, 2013

The idea of “open source” has transformed the world of software (e.g. Linux, Google Office) and information (e.g. Wikipedia). Now it’s time to transform the world in a very tangible way with open source hardware, where the rubber hits the road. I learned about this on NPR’s TED Radio Hour episode called The Power of [...]

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Why most Animals are not Philosophers: Fatal Flaws in Dr. Craig’s Moral Argument for God

By R. A. McGough | Published: January 18, 2013

A moral agent is defined as any being able to make moral judgments and be subject to them. Moral agents must possess two faculties. They must be self-aware else they could not make judgments with respect to their own actions and so could not be held responsible. And in as much as moral judgments are [...]

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2013 New Year Reflections: How Integrity led me into and drove me out of Evangelical Christianity

By R. A. McGough | Published: January 10, 2013

My meme for the New Year is “Let 2013 be the Year of Love and Unity.” I coined this meme at the end of my New Year’s Eve article On Integrity as the Highest Value where I discussed the fundamental ontological unity of the concepts of love, unity, and integrity which is the basis of [...]

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On Integrity as the Highest Value

By R. A. McGough | Published: December 31, 2012

INTEGRITY: The state of being whole, undivided, perfect in composition; unity, wholeness, completeness. The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. Integrity is the grand unifying concept of all knowledge and philosophy. It is the way, the means, and the end all in one. It is the ultimate value that subsumes [...]

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The Logic of Love: A Natural Theory of Morality

By R. A. McGough | Published: October 25, 2012

All you need is love, all you need is love, All you need is love, love, love is all you need. All you need is love (all together now) All you need is love (everybody) All you need is love, love, love is all you need. ~ The Beatles (1967) This article presents an objective, [...]

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