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[left caption] [Right caption/credit] If you want to convert an Atheist your task should be simple. Atheists ...

Creationists insist their theory of creation is at least as good, if not better, than any scientific theory at explaining the o...

What’s so good about Faith? Faith: The thing held most dearly and proudly by the ‘faithful’; the means by which the ‘faithful’ know things ...

Rather than write a blog going over old ground, I'll simply give a  few links to articles on the subject of speciation and to the many o...

Despite my blog exposing the logical fallacy of an inerrantly omniscient god and free will, it seems the full implications of...

Hold onto your hat. This could get a little rough. At the heart of quantum mechanics lies a paradox. All experimentation has shown that ...

The Joy of Living - although this was not the last song Ewan MacColl wrote, it was meant as a farewell to the world and to the people he lov...

Your Story [Edit. This article has now been greatly expanded into my book, What Makes You So Special? : From the Big Bang to ...

A short collection of writings, poems and other stuff. First they came..., When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; ...

Doublethink or the ability to simultaneously hold two mutually contradictory opinions. This blog is a response to the challenge from @Twe...

These arguments for God appear on http://snapshotsofgod.com/evidence.htm . This blog examines them one by one and shows the fallacy behin...

For a long list of Biblical contradictions please see   http://www.evilbible.com/Biblical%20Contradictions.htm Also see http://skepticsann...

Science works by applying a set of agreed fundamental requirements, based on the principles of logic, mathematics, and established accepted ...

Read any serious scientific paper and you will see evidence and discussions which support the hypothesis or theory under consi...

The convicted fraudster and Young Earth Creationist, Dr Kent Hovind, (or to give him his proper academic title, Mr Kent Hovind) claims to ha...

A silver-backed male watches over his tribe benevolent, yet threatening Whenever you’re wondering about the origins ...

A charge frequently levelled at Atheist is that Atheism is a belief system just like religion, so let’s look at what 'belief' actual...

Can you tell red from blue? Suppose for a moment that you have been born with some rare defect which makes it impossible (not just difficu...

As an atheist, of course, I don't believe in any gods so what I'm discussing here is the god of the Bible, whom Christians...

The Agnostic view of gods is that, while there may be no evidence for them, this does not prove their non-existence; absence of evidence is ...

The former leader of the United Kingdom Intolerance Party (UKIP) was slightly hurt by his party’s devastating crash on 6th May. Nigel Fara...

Countering Creationism  British Humanist Association report Attempts to have creationism and ‘intelligent design’ taught in science lesson...

A regular commentary on religion and politics from the point of view of a centre-left atheist humanist.