THE BLOG

Mario Bunge, a professor at McGill University, wanted to ban the teaching of religion in college. Fortunately, McGill did not comply.

Steven Weinberg claimed to know there is nothing after death. Yet how could he possibly "know" this?

Jerry Coyne states that the Bible has never preceded science's knowledge about the universe. Yet it has.

Lawrence Krauss presumed to answer why things exist but, instead, sought to explain how they exist. Is why not important?

David Silverman abhors religion - all religion - and claims it deserves to die! Is his contempt justified?

Did Bill Murray (Madalyn Murray O'Hair's son) reject atheism because of Stockholm Syndrome or was it a rational decision?

H L Mencken said Jesus just thought he rose from the dead - it was an "honest mistake." Or was it actually the fulfillment of God's plan?

Hector Avalos, a biblical studies professor at Iowa State, said Jesus was hateful, violent, imperialistic, anti-Jewish, and more! Really?

Ayn Rand's negative reaction to communism makes sense. However, is selfishness really a virtue?

Scientists frequently personify nature. Is nature really like a person or is a "person" behind nature? Perhaps that "person" is God.

David Fitzgerald claims the account of King Herod killing the baby boys of Bethlehem is a myth. However, evidence suggests it happened.

“The order to ‘love thy neighbor’ is mild and yet stern: a reminder of one’s duty to others. The order to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’...

Philosopher Paul Kurtz claimed people created God. Was God invented, revealed or concluded?

“But the order we observe, which is surely order in the universe and not of the universe, is such that it hardly evidences the marks of a...

“Why don't I believe in God? No, no no, why do YOU believe in God? Surely the burden of proof is on the believer. You started all...

“It’s natural selection overshooting that produces religion.”[1] - Alex Rosenberg “Religion can be seen as a by-product of the misfiring...

“There are no natural rights – rights one has just by virtue of being human. To put it crudely, lumps of matter (and that’s all we are)...

Is physics your maker?

“... I would like it to be the case that absolutely nothing happened at the Creation and that I can justify the claim. Gone activity,...

I am not at war with atheists. I don’t even dislike them – at least not most of them. Though I may not agree with their views about God,...