Author: Adam Lee

I was happy to read that this week that atheist groups are launching a new ad blitz, with ads extolling the virtues of atheism on billboards, buses, trains and print media. Significantly, atheist ads are also hitting the airwaves for the first time ever – thanks to a $150,000 donation from the Stiefel Freethought Foundation,…

I do my best to live consistently with my principles and to stand up for atheism in my personal life, as well as on the Web. But sometimes, even I fall short. I had one of those experiences this past weekend, and I’m still not sure how I should have handled it. I’m posting this…

The Language of God, Chapter 4 By B.J. Marshall Collins mentions some creationist positions in light of the fossil record. It’s obvious he doesn’t agree with these arguments: “[n]o serious biologist today doubts the theory of evolution to explain the marvelous complexity and diversity of life. In fact, the relatedness of all species through the…

I kept walking, leaving the canyons behind. The eerie stone pillars and rugged topography of the badlands faded away like a mirage, and soon, the land was flat and featureless again. This part of the desert was what geologists called a hamada, a low, level plain of boulders and stony soil. Low, wind-carved dunes rose…

Yesterday on my lunch hour, I was sitting outside the library, eating lunch and enjoying a rare day of warm weather, when I was approached by two young men in Orthodox Jewish garb. “Hello, are you Jewish?” one of them greeted me. “No,” I said, as cheerfully as possible. “I’m an atheist.” Give them credit…

I’ve said in the past that the internet is an incredibly beneficial invention for atheists, since it provides a truly global platform for speech. Sometimes, you get a potent reminder of just how true that is. A few days ago, I got an e-mail from a young man in Nigeria – about the same age…

Lately, it seems that every time the Pope shows his face, it’s to scold a country that’s giving people more rights than the Catholic church would prefer them to have. Just consider this report from his recent trip to Spain: Pope Benedict XVI criticized an “aggressive” anti-church sentiment in Spain that he said was reminiscent…

Last week, I noticed a pingback on my blog from a post on Ms. Magazine by Monica Shores, “Will New Atheism Make Room for Women?” There are some good things about this piece. I have to say that I’m glad to see the atheist movement making an impact in wider, more traditional media circles. The…

The Language of God, Chapter 4 By B.J. Marshall This chapter is entitled “Life on Earth: Of Microbes and Man.” Right from the beginning, you should probably know that there’s a lot in this chapter that Collins gets right. It’s like how William Lane Craig is totally in his element when he talks about cosmology,…

The salt-crusted stone shack disappeared before I had been walking more than a few minutes, swallowed up in a sandstorm gust. Squaring my face to the wind, I kept walking. The salt flats soon fell away behind me, and I entered a new region of the desert. It was a badlands: a barren landscape of…