“Goatheads hurt. Why did God make goatheads?” asked my son as he walked around our front yard in his socks. He wasn’t referring to a goat’s head but to a thorny sticker. At the age of five he had conceived “the problem of evil.” I was ecstatic realizing that I had just saved thousands of…

If raising one’s child according to one’s faith is “child abuse” (as per very many militant activist atheists) what is raising one’s child according to anti-theism? “Re-education” seemed appropriate (de-education came is as a close second). The UK Independent has reported on atheist re-educations camps for the children of parents who want their children to…

Tri-Theism? Nice Try Prof. Richard Dawkins claims that the Nicaean Creed states that “there are three gods, not one. The virgin Mary, Jesus died…went to the…what was it?…down for three days, and then came up again?” No, not one of the other three other Riders corrected him. I would certainly be willing to believe that…

God is “He who sits above the circle of the earth” (Isaiah 40:22) Cliff Walker has presented us with various logical fallacies and faulty inferences drawn from lack of knowledge of, and misunderstandings of, the Bible. This essay, which is part 3, will focus on a very small but significant statement made by Cliff Walker.…

Amazing PerplexityChristopher Hitchens states: “I didn’t expect, when I started off on my book tour, to be as lucky as I was and I, Jerry Falwell died my first week on the road, that was amazing.” Sam Harris, very enthusiastically and laughingly, “Yes, that was amazing luck!” This must be far too erudite and or…

Faith, Evidence and Doubting Thomas Sam Harris stated, “…this idea that you start with a premise that belief without evidence is especially noble, I mean, this is the doctrine of faith, this is the parable of doubting Thomas…” I found it fascinating that he correlates “belief without evidence” with doubting Thomas since that “parable” makes…

At least, some treat the First Law of Thermodynamics as a sort of commandment which they seek to employ in a self-serving manner. Such was the case with Brian Sapient of the Rational Response Squad (during his, and Kelly’s, debate with Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron). Two quick things to point out: he made the…

This, the first installment of The BOBA Digest will focus on an argument that surely proceeds forth from the murky depths of atheism’s barrel (see our definition of BOBA here). The argument that I wish to present is one that claims that Christians demonstrate that they do not really believe in all of this stuff…

On very rare occasion I decide to pull an interesting article from directly from another website and repost it here. Such will be the case in this post as I will quote, in its entirety the UK Guardian‘s Madeleine Bunting‘s April 6, 2009 AD article “Real debates about faith are drowned by the New Atheists’…

Note: this was written by one of my fellow co-authors when I was posting to the Atheism is Dead blog: Though I haven’t been writing much lately, I still like to visit my old pals over at Debunking Christianity from time-to-time.  Today, after perusing their blog, I noticed a post criticizing a personal hero of…