I would like to say a few words about Street Epistemology[i], an approach to having conversations with believers. Street Epistemology is based on the notion that polite one-on-one dialog between atheists and believers is the most effective way to lead…
Christian eugenics
A conservative Christian blog repeated the malicious trope that atheistic Darwinism was to blame for the forced sterilizations of the feeble-minded performed from the 1920s until the 1980s. Sixty thousand citizens in 35 states were sterilized. In my native North Carolina,…
Information argument
Young-Earth creationist Werner Gitt believes Jesus is Lord, people have souls, and the Big Bang, abiogenesis, and biological evolution are junk science. He argues that matter cannot create mind and that the production of information proves an eternal all-knowing god:…
A nation of pussies
Earlier this year I was invited to speak to an ecumenical religious group about my book, Religion Refuted. The organizers promptly disinvited me on the basis that I might tell someone that their beliefs are wrong, which is apparently not…
Much ado about nothing
In the first and toughest chapter of the book, we covered a lot of ground. You might suppose, after all this discussion, that nothing remains to be discussed. So, let’s discuss nothing. The Greek philosopher Parmenides (ca. 520–450 BCE) is…
Champions of inequality
How we treat one another matters. You probably know this intellectually. But you can really feel the truth of this statement deep in your gut if you’ve ever suffered the agony of rejection or if you have ever suffered the…