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Debunking Christianity
- Dr. Robert Price Reviews Our Book “God or Godless” May 22, 2013In the most recent June/July issue of Free Inquiry magazine, Robert Price congratulates Baker Books for publishing our book, saying, “It represents a […]
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
- Kevin Rudd backs same sex marriage May 21, 2013About a month ago, New Zealand legalised same sex marriage, becoming the 13th country to do so. But it didn’t take Julia Gillard, Australian prime […]
A Tippling Philosopher
- Richard Carrier on his mythicist theory May 22, 2013Here is a good talk from Richard Carrier as it sets out his thesis from start to finish and it is recent. See what you think. Are you a mythicist? Are […]
Dangerous Talk
- An Atheist ‘Prayer’ May 22, 2013Bravo to Arizona State Representative Juan Mendez for using his “opening prayer” to give a secular humanist prayer. That’s right, when politicians pus […]
Justin Vacula's Blog
- Thoughts on A Voice For Men May 22, 2013In my previous piece, I linked a video interview I had with Robert O’Hara of A Voice For Men. Some have wondered what my thoughts concerning A Voice F […]
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
- Happy draw Mohammed day! May 21, 2013For anyone not familiar with the story, you can find it here. […]
Believing Bullshit
- Correction to Believing Bullshit, chpt 2. May 21, 2013Here’s an endnote I am adding to a chapter I am contributing to the upcoming Handbook on Humanism (edited by AC Grayling and Andrew Copson [Wiley Blac […]
Incongruent Elements
- The Secret revisited May 22, 2013I still hear people yammering about The Secret, law of attraction, and such. Drives me nuts. Ah, but Dave Chappelle nails it with an unforgiving pun […]
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
- Oklahoma Atheists on the Cable News May 21, 2013Probably you’ve already seen or heard of this glorious accidental vignette, in which our friend Rebecca drops the A-bomb on Wolf Blitzer. That’s right […]
Great Plains Skeptic
- Normal and Unexpected Behaviors after a Disaster May 21, 2013Earlier today, Moore and south Oklahoma City were hit with an absolutely devastating tornado that appears as if it will eclipse the infamous May 3rd, […]
Avant Garde
- Financial Tips for the Pope May 21, 2013Pope Francis has called for an ‘ethical’ reform to the financial system: Pope Francis has hit out at unbridled capitalism and the “cult of money”, cal […]
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
- Dennett’s ‘seven tools for thinking’ May 21, 2013Dennett's new book "Intuition pumps" contains many useful tips for improving our thinking, including using Rapoport's rules as the […]
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 […]

























