Three New Videos
My Huntsville debate with David Marshall can now be viewed online (“Is the Christian Faith Reasonable?”) as can my Raleigh talk on the literary study of the Gospels (“Why the Gospels Are Myth: The Evidence of Genre and Content”) and my...Ten Years to the Robot Apocalypse
Counting down. Soon we shall all be doomed. Okay, I wrote this on the plane to Alabama about a month ago. It’s been languishing in my queue until now. So step back in time. I’m presently five miles above the earth hurtling through space in a giant metal...Appearing in Irvine Next Week
I will be giving two talks at the University of California, Irvine, next Wednesday (April 17th, 2013). One for the Classics Department (in conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Program in the History and Philosophy of Science), and one for the campus chapter of the...Is Thunderf00t a Sociopath?
In response to my video promoting positive goals and values for the atheist community (Atheism…Plus What?), Thunderf00t (whose real name is Phil Mason) has expanded his anti-feminist rants to the point that I am seriously worried he might have no empathy for...Atheism…Plus What?
Video of my talk at the 2013 American Atheists Convention (their 50th anniversary!) is now online. It is getting downvotes from the haters (even at one point more downs than ups). Please go watch that video (Atheism…Plus What?) and see if you can find anything...Kiva Now or Never!
Okay, time to do some good. The Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and Non-Religious team at Kiva is just a few hundred members away from winning a $10,000 bonus matching fund. Let’s get them that bonus! It only costs you $25. (And...Status Report
Two notes today, one to readers of my blog and another to the donors who funded Proving History and On the Historicity of Jesus Christ: (1) Today I shall begin recording in studio for the audiobook edition of Not the Impossible Faith. Two other books have already been...Record-Breaking Atheist Charity Drive
Last year I blogged about the national atheist community’s engagement with the Light the Night charity drive to fund Leukemia research (see This Is Atheist Charity and Charity Legend Update). Well, it achieved remarkable results. The atheist movement officially...That Christian Nation Nonsense (Gods Bless Our Pagan Nation)
Even John McCain (John McCain!) once said as a candidate for president of the United States of America: “I just have to say in all candor [that] this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles.” — And that: “The constitution established the United States as...Sense and Goodness without God Now an Audio Book
My flagship defense of a naturalist worldview (and of philosophy in general), Sense and Goodness without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism, is now available as an audio book, through Audible.com. It’s a fairly faithful reading, so even things I’d...Appearing in Texas: American Atheists 50th!
I shall be one of the featured speakers at the American Atheists convention this month, in Austin, Texas, March 28-31 (2013). And I’m just one among a huge array of awesome folk presenting there: just look at this lineup! Yes, that’s Jay Jay French from...Harriet Hall Redeemed
Getting back to things I missed this past week and a half while I was away, I have good news to report on the infamous “big rifts” front. In my original post for Atheism+ I included what appeared to be the grossly callous behavior of leading skeptic...Shermer vs. Pigliucci on Moral Science
Ophelia Benson summarized Michael Shermer’s latest foot-in-mouth in his row with Massimo Pigliucci over whether and to what degree moral philosophy should become a moral science instead. Reading their exchange, I find Shermer is more inclined toward ideological...Appearing in San Francisco: NAPCON 2013
I’ll be speaking at an event held by the National Atheist Party in two weeks time. So sorry I’ve been absent from my blog for over a week. Traveling and speaking at two events last week in North Carolina and then bills and taxes (a several day job for me,...Day of Solidarity for Black Nonbelievers
This February 24th (2013) is going to be a Day of Solidarity for Black Nonbelievers. For an explanation of what that means and how you can participate, read the great piece by its organizer, Kimberley Veal (writing as a guest on Greta Christina’s blog):...Get Dr. Carrier’s Latest!
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