Author: Adam Lee

A Review of When Atheism Becomes Religion, Part II In chapter 3, Hedges gives a two-and-a-half-page-long excerpt of a debate he had with Sam Harris at UCLA in May 2007, moderated by the columnist Robert Scheer, about whether Islam encourages suicide bombing: HARRIS: OK, well, let me deal with your taking the measure of the…

The Language of God, Chapter 4 By B.J. Marshall The last part of this chapter is a brief but pretty thorough overview of DNA and how it works. He gives a short background going through genetics (Mendel and Garrod), the discovery of DNA (Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty), and the discovery of DNA’s structure (Watson and…

If blogging was my full-time job, I’d probably have written a post about each of these stories! As it is, I leave you with some food for thought – and there’s a virtual banquet this week: • In the U.K., more and more decaying churches are being converted into homes – a fitting use for…

A Review of When Atheism Becomes Religion, Part I At the beginning of chapter 2, Chris Hedges says that science is a “morally neutral discipline” (p.45) which offers potential for both good and evil. He goes on to assert: Evolution is a biological theory that helps us grasp descent, with modification, within living species. It…

Nothing fills my heart with Christmas cheer like seeing atheists’ holiday ads, so I was glad to hear of a new campaign starting up in Texas, courtesy of the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason. Starting this month, they’ll be running ads that read “Millions of Americans Are Good Without God” on Fort Worth city buses.…

As sharp-eyed readers may have noticed from my sidebar, I’ve decided to take up the challenge of reading Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged – all 1,074 pages of it, in my softcover edition. Say what you will about the woman, but no one will ever accuse her of failing to deliver a low price-to-word ratio. I’ve…

The things I do for you people. A few weeks ago, I was browsing in a used bookstore when I saw a copy of Chris Hedges’ When Atheism Becomes Religion (retitled from the original, I Don’t Believe in Atheists). Since it was only a few dollars, I decided to get it – it might be…

The Language of God, Chapter 4 By B.J. Marshall Collins spends only three pages discussing the history of Darwin’s publishing his theory of evolution through natural selection, but there are a few points that I want to discuss concerning how Collins (and apologists in general) lift quotes, provide misinformation, and arrange material to help guide…

Last week, I came across this story from the Telegraph. In the U.K., a coalition of liberal churches, educational and secular groups including the British Humanist Association are calling on the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to scrap a law which forces British schools to hold mandatory religious services for all their pupils. The 1944 Education…

Daylight Atheism was down most of today due to technical problems with my host. Sorry about that. All should be back to working order now. Since I couldn’t log on to the site during the day, I wasn’t able to put up a new post. The one I had written for today will be up…