No one need take any religious holy book seriously because they may all be completely human in origin and so faulty and untrustworthy. From my study of comparative religions I find 2 transhuman aspects of the Bible, biochemical prescience and prophetic accuracy.  Prescience (pronounced – hressihence with the ‘h’ being silent) is the presence of…

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. (1 Corinthians 6, King James Version) “When individuals have sexual relationships, they have involved more than a pleasant physical sensation and emotional response. Because of oxytocin in the woman’s brain and…

Any venture to remind Negroes of their proud heritage is commendable. If that venture succeeds it is intellectually therapeutic not only for Negroes but for myth-believing Whites who are exposed to the material.  We need to examine the extent to which Diop has succeeded in proving some of the stronger claims that he makes. The…

As Blacks we do not have to scrape the historical barrel to find prestigious folk whose ethnic stock is unclear or definitely non-black and parade them as one of us. In the Bible there are prestigious Blacks, but we hardly pay attention to them. The high-ranking Ebedmelech (lit. servant of the King) who rescued Jeremiah…

In his last book There is A God, British philosopher and atheist Antony Flew mentions three phenomena that cannot be explained from a naturalistic perspective. These are 1) the origin of life from non-life 2) the origin of reproduction (without which natural selection is a late non-starter) and 3) “the origin of the coding and information…

My Anglican Clergy Brother Father Sean Major-Campbell could not possibly think that I need to be educated on the difference between magic and miracle re events in the biblical texts. If he does not believe in miracles (despite the abundance of such in the Bible),  I do. As a trained philosopher, I have wrestled with the…