Welcome to the Rational Supply Co. blog — a home for freethinkers, skeptics, atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists who like their ideas straight. We write about philosophy, history, science, and secular living: the big questions, the bad arguments, and the quiet satisfaction of figuring things out for yourself.
Can prayer heal the sick? This article examines decades of scientific research, including the largest clinical studies, to see what the evidence actually says.
Evolution isn’t “just a theory.” Learn what a scientific theory really is and why modern biology, medicine, genetics, and geology all depend on evolutionary science.
Scientific evidence from geology, genetics, archaeology, and biology shows why the biblical story of Noah’s global flood cannot be reconciled with the observable history of Earth.
Learn why Christianity has thousands of denominations by exploring the major historical events, doctrinal debates, and church divisions that transformed one faith into many traditions.
What happens when religious panic meets Saturday morning cartoons and a record player? The 1980s Satanic Panic, that’s what.
Most of us know someone—a brilliant engineer, a sharp-witted aunt, a doctor who saves lives for a living—who also holds a belief that seems, on its face, hard to square […]
