Your favorite atheist punk rock band, Bad Religion, has a new album coming out on Sept 28 called “The Dissent of Man.” There are a few pre-release tracks on their myspace page and it sounds really good.
Amazing these guys can keep producing after all this time — they’ve been together for 31 years and this [...]
I want to share a couple of experiences with you all and talk about the directions that those experiences have sent me in emotionally and cognitively. Here goes.
About a year ago, I was involved in my first ever “crash-call”. A crash-call in a hospital setting basically means that a patient who you are not expecting [...]
A question came up in the comments of my last post, and I thought it might be useful to bring it out.
What is a “New Atheist”?
How are the New Atheists different from the previous generations of atheists? Who constitutes the New Atheists, and who are still Old Atheists?
Randall nails it on the head once again.
by VorJack
Cracked.com has gotten ambitious and published a list of 10 Things Christians and Atheists Can (And Must) Agree On. And … eh, it’s Cracked.com. Not bad – I’d say he’s usually half right on both sides – but don’t expect anything deep.
For example, they do the classic comparison of theistic villains [...]
by VorJack
Victor J. Stenger, author of works like God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist, came out with a work last year titled The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason. In it, Stenger apparently has a section on the nonhistoricity of Jesus.
First off, he doesn’t do [...]
by VorJack
Over at Slate, Ron Rosenbaum gets in a good sneer in the agnostic/atheist debate with a piece entitled “The rise of the new agnostics“:
Atheists display a credulous and childlike faith, worship a certainty as yet unsupported by evidence—the certainty that they can or will be able to explain how and why the universe came [...]
by VorJack
Imagine for a moment that you’re an Israelite during the Persian period. Your God is a great and powerful one -so great that you dare not speak His name. Your God hammered out the firmament and rolled out the rocky ground and set the star into their proper places. Truly, He [...]
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