A New York man is linking the suicide of his 22-year-old son, a military veteran who had bright prospects in college, to the anti-Christian book “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins after a college professor challenged the son to read it. “Three people told us he had taken a biology class and was doing well…

Their Secret PartsAt 54:54 into part 2 the formal debate has ended and questions are being taken from the audience. Dan Barker was asked: “You stated that there are no actions that are absolutely wrong, such as lying, etc., that there is always an exception. When then is rape considered okay? What is the exception…

Louis Leakey has stated, “The part played by prejudice in relation to scientific controversy was very strong in the thirties and remains so to this day.”1 Paleoanthropology has been described as “a field where opinion can sometimes overwhelm irrefutable fact, the natural tendency to polarize to one viewpoint against another has been enhanced.”2 Atheism and…

The Castrati Kingdom? Dan Barker wrote: “What personal sacrifice for ‘the kingdom of heaven’ was Jesus talking about when he told his disciples, ‘He that is able to receive it, let him receive it’?…Castrate yourself. -No wonder we don’t hear sermons from the entire New Testament-how many preachers actually take this ghastly advice seriously?! Although…

“One of the most pernicious falsehoods ever to be almost universally accepted is that the scientific method is the only reliable way to truth”1 -Professor Richard H. Bube, Stanford University Yes my friends, I am pulling the following quotation out of the holster – again. Scott C. Todd, Department of Biology, Kansas State University wrote:…

Nica Lalli1 (USA Today blog columnist, writer, educator and former PTA member) never fails to fail. She tries, really tries hard, to paint herself as a member of the happy face sect the positive public image sect of atheism yet, it never quite seems to pan out for her. In her latest installment she writes…

In my essay To Lie, or Not To Lie: That is the Question I pointed out that three atheists – Dan Barker, Matthew Davis and Reginald Finley – have, in lockstep, promulgated the same logical fallacy, one that originated with Dan Barker. In the writings of Sam Harris we find that he too offers support…

“Seattle Atheists” president Paul Case is the latest to attempt to put a “positive face on atheism.” And he is the latest to whom I say, “Mazel tov!” (as I did with regards to the Atheist Alliance International, see here). Let us consider the matter and then review the ads. Background and Observations Paul Case…

Some atheists argue that Christians have ulterior motives for “doing good deeds” since these are based on fear of God. They claim that, in counter distinction, atheists are the only people who have pure motives since they do not believe in any higher power (they themselves being the highest power), they thus do “good” for…

Sometimes, actually, quite often, I wonder if I am misreading or making too much of something> But then again I think that sometimes some atheist are such the deep-within-the-box thinkers and so busy elbowing each other in the ribs at the expense of Christians that they think that they are making sense when they are…