Author: Adam Lee

The Language of God, Chapter 5 By B.J. Marshall In the last post, we saw Collins give a foothold to Creationists who want to deny macroevolution. Even granted that he should have never allowed this foothold in the first place, he makes a valiant effort to tear the false micro-v-macro wall down by comparing our…

The steady drip, drip, drip of documents showing the Vatican’s complicity in a worldwide child-rape scandal is ongoing. And the most recent drop to fall was a huge one: By 1996, an advisory committee of Irish bishops had drawn up a new policy that included “mandatory reporting” of suspected abusers to civil authorities. The letter,…

Lately, I’ve been spending some time reading Unequally Yoked – a blog about a Catholic/atheist interfaith relationship from the atheist perspective, which is a great concept, and tends to attract interesting commenters from both sides of the theological aisle. There was one recent post, Reading and Praying… One of those I can do, which I…

My thanks to all the Daylight Atheism readers who attended the meetup this past weekend in San Francisco. We had a very sizable crowd show up, much fun was had, and much sangria was consumed – all the hallmarks of a successful get-together, in my opinion. And thanks, of course, to the amazing Greta Christina…

Having written recently about what really caused the Confederacy to secede, I wanted to say some more about the topic. I’ve previously discussed the religious foundations of the CSA and how they repeatedly appealed to God and Christianity as a defense of the rightness of slavery, and I’d like to add some more evidence on…

The Language of God, Chapter 5 By B.J. Marshall Before tackling the gritty details using DNA evidence to support human evolution, Collins addresses Darwin, mutations, and the “rather arbitrary” distinction between microevolution (“incremental changes within a species”) and macroevolution (“major changes in species”) (p.131-2). In my discussions with Creationists, the micro- v. macro-evolution thing always…

I wrote last month about the Fort Worth atheist bus ads and how the city decided to ban all religious messages in the future, so as not to have to deal with us again. At the time, I observed: It was only when groups who aren’t in the majority want to exercise their equal rights…

    “When we consider the founders of our nation – Jefferson, Washington, Samuel and John Adams, Madison and Monroe, Benjamin Franklin, Tom Paine and many others – we have before us a list of at least ten and maybe even dozens of great political leaders. They were well-educated. Products of the European Enlightenment, they were students…

I wrote last month about the importance of making non-white atheists feel welcome. I intend to continue banging that drum, and now I again have occasion to do so, thanks to this article from Religion News Service, “Atheists’ Diversity Woes Have No Black-and-White Answers“. This article complements the last one I discussed. Alom Shaha’s essay…

• Witchcraft is now a recognized profession in Romania, subjecting its practitioners to income tax. Witches who are unhappy about this are responding pretty much like you’d expect. • A female activist in Israel faces prison time for praying at the Wailing Wall. The telling quote: “The religious world in Israel has become more and…