Is Anarchy “Natural?”

Some critics of anarchism take the following line of argument. They argue that if anarchism was a viable form of organization we would see d...

The Web's Best Videos on Evolution, Creationism, Atheism and More

Over at the blog Why Evolution is True Jerry Coyne has linked to a vast collection of videos about evolution, creationism, science, and crit...

Evolution is a FACT, Deal with It

I've been considering writing a series about evolution. I reconsidered doing this, however, because there are several excellent books an...

The Truth Behind the New Atheism: A Refutation Revisited

Dear Readers, I've decided to repost my review of The Truth Behind the New Atheism for those who may have missed it several months ago. ...

The 'New' Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don't Hold Water?: A Refutation

IntroductionI am at it again. I've set my sights on yet another Christian author who has published one more in a long line of books seek...

The Truth Behind the New Atheism: The Definitive Refutation

Introduction The following is a refutation of the book by Christian apologist David Marshall titled The Truth Behind the New Atheism:‭ ‬Resp...

Evolution and Global Warming Denialism: How the Public is Misled

This is a talk by NCSE's Eugenie Scott about the similar tactics of the evolution and global warming deniers. This took place September ...

Technology is Largely Replacing Natural Selection...

In such books as K. Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation and in some of my writings I explain how our scientific advances will shape our e...

The 138th Carnival of the Godless

As I explained earlier today, there was some kind of problem that prevented me from receiving any of the submissions but Mr. Braden and I go...

Christian Apologists Just Don't Understand Morality, Part 2

In the first piece I explained why it is a fallacy to argue that atheists, because they are mostly materialists, must abide by some form of ...

Christian Apologists Just Don't Understand Morality, Part 1

If there is one issue (other than the utter lack of scientific knowledge among christian apologists) that annoys me to no end, it is christi...

Answering the New Atheism, by Scott Hahn & Benjamin Wiker: A Refutation

Preface I wanted to add this preface to let the readers in on some of my thoughts during the writing of this refutation. Honestly, to be blu...

The Link Between Atheism & Communism is Still Broken

Despite christian apologists' desperate attempts to connect atheism to communism, not one person has been successful, even a Ph.D. in Ru...

Altruistic Behavior in Green-bearded Lizards

This is an old article but it deals with a subject I've written about at some length in the past, and that is the evolution of altruisti...

Daniel Dennett's February '09 ASU Speech

A few months ago I wrote about Daniel Dennett's speech at ASU's Darwinfest. They mentioned that a video might eventually get posted ...

Relative Morality and the Social Contract

There are many people who hate the idea of relative morality and try to ground morality upon some basis, but I would argue that they're ...

A Web of Lies: An Addendum to My Review of The Truth Behind the New Atheism

About a year ago I wrote a review of David Marshall's book called The Truth Behind the New Atheism and have written about Marshall and I...

Is Religion "Hard-Wired?"

There is a lot of evidence mounting that suggests humans are "hard-wired" for beliefs in the supernatural. Here is an article from...

Daniel Dennett in AZ

I recently went to ASU for a speech by Daniel Dennet for the Darwinfest on February 18th. Dennett's talk was titled "Darwin’s stran...

Communism and Atheism: Revised and Updated

This is a revision of the post I did by the same title back in January of 2008. Since then I've learned quite a bit more about this topi...