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Debunking Christianity
- Jill Graper Hernandez On “Leibniz and the Best of All Possible Worlds May 12, 2013As announced earlier I’m planning on reviewing every chapter in the new anthology on the problem of suffering titled, God and Evil: The Case for God i […]
Incredulous
- IBM versus GOD May 2, 2013It’s hard not to feel a little sad for God (or gods, if you like). There was a time when almost all of the humans believed God was everywhere and resp […]
Hume's Apprentice
- Noam Chomsky: Can Civilization Survive Existing Capitalism May 18, 2013Here’s the famous leftist on our current economic crisis and the downsides of capitalism.I present the video as food for thought, I don’t necessarily […]
Skeptically Left
- Sunday Sinner Guest Post: Iamcuriousblue April 8, 2013Bio: By way of background, I am a mycologist, taxonomy geek, naturalist, and microscope tech from the San Francisco Bay Area. After earning an underg […]
Arizona Atheist
- Missing the Mark: David Marshall on Grayling’s The God Argument, Part 2 May 19, 2013In the first part of this two-part series, I looked at Marshall’s introduction. In this second part I’m going to continue to critique David Marshall’s […]
Reasonably Faithless
- Arguing About Mathematical Objects May 18, 2013William Lane Craig and James Sinclair’s chapter on the Kalam Cosmological Argument in the Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology contains a couple […]
A Tippling Philosopher
- A reply to Rauser on Loftus, God or Godless?, and evidence for God (pt 2). And some. May 20, 2013So Randal has responded to my response to Part 1 of his response to my review of his book. But I have not yet had the chance to respond to his Part 2 […]
Dangerous Talk
- The Pope Is Not Humble! May 17, 2013Yesterday, the Pope made the news again by calling for an end to the “cult of money.” This Pope is very different from the last Pope in that he actual […]
Justin Vacula's Blog
- Brave Hero Radio from Women in Secularism 2! May 17, 2013Brave Hero Radio was one of the, if not the only, radio shows reporting live from the Women in Secularism 2 conference in Washington D.C. Listen to t […]
The Lateral Truth
- God’s Own Science Textbooks May 15, 2013Pop quiz, people. Answers at the bottom of the page. We must never do experiments to test God’s words. Write yes for the questions that would be al […]
Notung
- “Shut up and listen!” – a slogan worth repeating? May 20, 2013Right now there’s a bit of drama going on related to a recent conference. I don’t really want to discuss that here, since it seems everything that c […]
No Cross No Crescent
- Surreal: Muslim woman defends the “choice” of wearing the hijab even as she admits it is no choice May 20, 2013For those of us not enslaved by dedication to religious dogma, the religious “logic” is at times hard to comprehend. The defense of this (British) wom […]
Believing Bullshit
- Excellent short video on religion and free speech May 17, 2013Jacob Mchangama’s excellent short video on religion and free speech is here. http://freetochoose.tv/program.php?id=collision&type=qt […]
Incongruent Elements
- Fake guru really wants to believe May 16, 2013Vikram Gandhi is an actor. He became “Kumare” to become a “yogalebrity” with an American following. He spoke with an Indian accent, grew his hair lo […]
The Prussian
- Still more morondom on cloning from the right May 16, 2013Once you start down this path, it’s hard to stop. Courtesy of the scientific minds at the National Review: The unfertilized egg is not turned int […]
Background Probability
- Monday Morning Musical Meme – Witch Hunt May 20, 2013Hate to admit it, but I grew up listening to Christian rock. Loads of it, almost always with a discernible spiritual or philosophical message. Never t […]
Great Plains Skeptic
- “Innvestigating” Hauntings at the Stone Lion Inn May 7, 2013As mentioned previously, every fall I teach a course called “Science vs Pseudoscience” that focuses on teaching students how to think critically about […]
Avant Garde
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished May 18, 2013Ronald Lindsay, president of CFI, on privilege: I’m talking about the situation where the concept of privilege is used to try to silence others, as a […]
Smilodon's Retreat
- Loss May 21, 2013Today at 4PM, the world lost something truly amazing. Today, my cat, Nimitz, had to be put to sleep. He was eighteen years old and lived a life to b […]
Towards a Free Society
- Deciding when to die May 18, 2013Death should not be trivialised, so it’s understandable that some of us are wary of legislation that allows for assisted suicide. But if it’s the dign […]
Atheist, Intermarried
- Resurrection: “Thoroughly Historical”I accompanied my wife to her church for Easter service today, mainly to watch our three kids sing. They were cute. However, the sermon was horrible. T […]
Humanisticus
- David Quinn lies when he says there is not enough research regarding same-sex parenting.David Quinn has long argued that marriage should have special status because it contains something special, and that special quality is its benefits t […]
Enough's Enough
- Life is often good. For many.It’s all good. Life is good. Everything happens for a reason. I get what’s behind these slogans. Life is sometimes, even often, good and that’s a gre […]
The Hellfire Club
- Blog break May 2, 2013I’m finding myself on a blog break at the moment. I came back from Conflux 9 with a big pile of work to deal with, not least checking the page proofs […]

























