Reading Time: 7 minutes Last week, Scientific American published an interview with Marcelo Gleiser, a theoretical physics professor at Dartmouth and this year’s winner of the Templeton Prize, in which he said some things about the interplay between science and faith that ruffled some feathers. Gleiser, who identifies as an agnostic, said a number of things I would disagree […]
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Report Recommends Atheism To Be Taught in Religious Education in UK
Reading Time: 4 minutes I meant to post about this a few weeks back. A two-year report in the Religious Education in the UK has concluded with some interesting recommendations. As The Guardian reports: Religious education in schools needs a major overhaul to reflect an increasingly diverse world and should include the study of atheism, agnosticism and secularism, a […]
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Straight from the Pit of Hell
Reading Time: < 1 minute The first print collection of Blinky and Sal comics is available. If you’re like me, you know comics just feel better in book form.
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When Americans Say They Believe in God, What Do They Mean?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pew Research Center has some very revealing statistics just out. Whilst we have seen a general decrease in the number of Americans who most certainly believe in God, what comprises the segment of people who do not certainly believe in God? Do they still kind of believe? As Pew questions: When respondents say they […]
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To Hell With It
Reading Time: < 1 minute Blinky wonders and Spatsby has answers. Believe it all with or without good reason or you’ll be sorry. Thus saith holy deity, Todd.
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April Ingersoll: Why I Am An Agnostic
Reading Time: 10 minutes My friend Julian Haydon has created a website dedicated to the great agnostic, Robert G. Ingersoll. The site is set out like a newspaper and is a labour of love. Please check it out – the link is below. To give respect to both men, I will be posting some Ingersoll delights once a month […]
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February Ingersoll: On Belief
Reading Time: 3 minutes Yes, it’s March. Well done clever clogs. But I have been a bit busy to notice, and I forgot February’s Ingersoll (and January’s, for that matter). My friend Julian Haydon has created a website dedicated to the great agnostic, Robert G. Ingersoll. The site is set out like a newspaper and is a labour of love. […]
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Humanist and Activist Carrie Fisher Dies
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yes, I am sure you all know that Carrie Fisher has died, unless you have been living in the mouth of a strange space monster living in an asteroid for the last week or so. But were you aware of the other things that she has done in her life, outside of telling big walking […]
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Real Deconversion Story #14 – Anthony Toohey
Reading Time: 13 minutes Here is another account in my series of real-life deconversion stories. They are often painful, psychological affairs, as you can see from the various accounts. Anthony Toohey contacted me through facebook and ended up writing this account. Please check out my book of deconversion accounts, edited with Tristan Vick, which can be bought from the […]
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Atheism IS a Belief, Rather Than a Lack Thereof. Just Not a Belief System.
Reading Time: 4 minutes I am of the school of thought that atheism is a belief. It is either a positive belief in a negative statement or a negative belief in a positive statement, which essentially amount to the same thing. I believe that God does not exist. or I do not believe that God exists. I am not […]