Author: Adam Lee

If you’re in or near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on December 14, come out and see me! I’m going to be appearing at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore for a debate with the Christian author Andrew Murtagh. (This is my first public debate! You’ll only have one chance to see that.) We’ll be discussing the existence or nonexistence…

This past weekend I was in Springfield, Missouri for Skepticon VI. This is my third year attending Skepticon, which is far and away my favorite of all the annual atheist conventions. I didn’t go to all the talks this year, but the ones I did see were very good. Debbie Goddard told the funny and…

Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter VIII At the start of this chapter, Dagny is back in New York, working until well after midnight (of course) in the rotting tenement that’s the official corporate headquarters of the John Galt Line: Her new headquarters were two rooms on the ground floor of a half-collapsed structure. The structure…

I’ve finished reading Timothy Keller’s book The Reason for God. It was a hard slog, especially the last section, in which he announces he’s not going to argue for God’s existence any more because everyone already agrees with him whether they admit it or not (yes, he actually says that), and instead devotes his time…

Last Monday night, I attended a meeting of the Sunday Assembly in New York City. It was the first U.S. stop on their 40 Dates and 40 Nights tour, in which cofounders Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans are barnstorming across the country to drum up support and excitement for launching satellite congregations in, as they…

• Following the resignation of the previous team, CFI has announced the new hosts of their podcast Point of Inquiry, one of whom is my friend Lindsay Beyerstein. Congratulations! • This week’s entry in the WTF Department: Richard Cohen, an awful columnist for the Washington Post, saw the movie 12 Years a Slave and was…

Atlas Shrugged, part I, chapter VII I mentioned earlier on that Hank and Dagny will soon be having an affair, and this chapter has the first direct allusion to it. While Dagny is in Hank’s office discussing her plans to live on site in Colorado and direct the building of the John Galt Line, he…

So, Richard Dawkins has once again become an unintentional social media star with a sequence of tweets: Bin Laden has won, in airports of the world every day. I had a little jar of honey, now thrown away by rule-bound dundridges. STUPID waste. — Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) November 3, 2013 And when he received some…

I’m still reading Timothy Keller’s book. He’s very much a fan of presuppositional apologetics, like this one in which he argues that an intelligent being that came about through evolution wouldn’t be able to trust its own reasoning abilities: Evolutionists say that if God makes sense to us, it is not because he is really…

I found out this week that my books have been getting ratings and reviews on Goodreads, without any prompting or even knowledge on my part, which is pretty cool. So, I now have an author page on Goodreads, which you can use to shower accolades upon my literary endeavors. (Or just add me as a…