Author: Adam Lee

The Language of God, Chapter 9 By B.J. Marshall The subtitle to this chapter is “When Science Needs Divine Help,” which immediately sets up a couple of problems. First, is Collins asserting that Intelligent Design (ID) is science? Second, where does divine help fit in with the application of the scientific method? In response to…

Although I’ve highlighted the lives of some amazing feminists on Daylight Atheism, I don’t want to give the impression that the only thing women can be famous for is fighting for the rights of women. Today’s post is a reminder that freethinking women have made their mark in other areas of human culture as well.…

Ophelia and Hemant have pointed out that the White House is creating an “Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge” to encourage college students and religious groups to work on community-service projects. What’s more, Greg Epstein, the humanist chaplain at Harvard, was invited to the kickoff meeting, and he’s overjoyed: I can vouch for the fact…

• Greta Christina posts her completed list of atheists of color. • In early 1981, Carl Sagan sent this letter to the Explorers’ Club – an international society dedicated to scientific exploration – regarding their men-only admission policy. Several months later, the first female members were admitted. (HT: Geek Feminism Blog) • Johann Hari writes…

When I wrote my review of Creation last year, a commenter suggested I see Agora, the 2009 film by Alejandro Amenábar about Hypatia of Alexandria. It took me a long time to get around to doing that, but I’ve finally seen it, and it was worth the wait. It only had a very limited theatrical…

The Language of God, Chapter 8 By B.J. Marshall I can summarize this chapter by quoting Collins himself: “Thus, by any reasonable standard, Young Earth Creationism [YEC] has reached a point of intellectual bankruptcy” (p.177). He spends the bulk of this chapter providing reasons why YEC is horribly flawed, and then he concludes with a…

Some of my favorite atheist writers have been jousting over the issue of whether any imaginable evidence could convince them of the existence of God. Among those who answer in the negative, the consensus seems to be that God is such a nebulous and unfalsifiable hypothesis, it’s impossible to test in any meaningful way. This…

This past weekend, I was out at brunch when I saw a rack of free magazines in the restaurant’s foyer. I picked out one of them, which as it turned out was a promotional brochure and schedule for something called the New Life Expo to be held in New York City this coming weekend. I…

I’ve written several times before about the decline of the Catholic church in the West. But today, I want to shine a spotlight on one corner of the world to study a lesser-known but extremely important symptom of that decline. This was brought to my attention by the journalist and atheist Dick Gross, author of…

• We’ve all been following the news about the massive earthquake and tsunami that’s devastated Japan, and I won’t waste your time rehashing the details. Help on an international scale is urgently needed, and the Foundation Beyond Belief has stepped in and is raising funds for the Japanese Red Cross. They’ve already collected almost $10,000,…