If there is no God…
Last year I was in a kind of debate with Andrew Copson – Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association (BHA). His final line of the evening was a plea for us all to “be good for goodness sakes.”...
View ArticlePodcast: Introducing Atheism (Part 1 of 4)
In this episode we discuss the crucial questions: Which Atheism? and Which God? In future episodes, we’ll cover “What atheism gets right”, “What atheism gets wrong” and finally “Hot Topics”. DOWNLOAD...
View ArticlePodcast: What Atheists Get Right
In this podcast we discuss 6 things atheists get right. We are all atheists with regard to the vast number of deities ever proposed A world with God is very different to a world without God Being good...
View ArticlePodcast: Atheism part 3 of 4
Having discussed what atheists get right, here we talk about what atheists miss… Atheists are believers too A non-miraculous account of reality is impossible Materialism undermines itself There’s...
View ArticleRaised according to the Scriptures
When evangelists and apologists want to make their case for the resurrection, I’ve noticed one piece of “evidence” keeps getting used: No Jew expected a bodily resurrection in the middle of history....
View ArticlePodcast: Atheism – the final episode
In previous episodes we have thought about: 1. Introduction. Six kinds of atheism 2. Six things that atheists get right 3. Six things that atheists miss In this final episode on atheism we tie up some...
View ArticleWho Has the Burden of Proof?
If the God of the Bible exists then this God is the certain thing, we are the added thing, right? “In the beginning” there was this God and we’ve come along later. What’s more, according to the Bible,...
View ArticleGullible Sceptics
There are none so blind as those who will not see. And none so gullible as those who will not believe. Exhibit A: Here’s Stephen Fry spouting absolute bunkum for two and a half minutes: He sets...
View ArticleWhy the world exists
A fascinating 40 minute discussion between a philosopher a theoretical physicist and a cosmologist. I even understood some of it! I can’t get the video to embed so click the image or go here. Below are...
View ArticleFaith, Good and Evil
In The Atlantic, Crispin Sartwell writes refreshingly about his atheism as a faith position. Atheism embodies a whole picture of the world, offering explanations about its most general organization to...
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