Author: Adam Lee

I’ve got a couple of links this weekend, some atheism-related, some not: • Lost a digital camera lately? It made me smile to find out about I Found Your Camera, a website helping to reunite lost cameras with their owners. • After the terrible and entirely preventable deaths of three people during a “sweat lodge”…

Just an FYI: The Daylight Atheism site page on Facebook will no longer be updated. I tried it out for a few months, but I wasn’t happy with the results: the administrator controls were poorly designed and hard to use, Facebook’s staff was unresponsive when I had issues, and the page didn’t send much traffic…

I’ve heard that Sam Harris has a new book, The Moral Landscape, coming out soon. In it, he argues that there is an objectively best way for us to live together in a way that produces the greatest well-being for all – i.e., an objective morality – and that we can discover what it is…

I’ll post another update tomorrow, but in the meantime, I came across two videos that were too wonderful not to share: • First, this montage of stunning moments from the documentary series Planet Earth, with music by the band Sigur Ros; • and then, this video: a recording of Carl Sagan reading his immortal “Reflections…

Because we New Atheists haven’t been told to shut up nearly often enough, Matt Nisbet has an editorial on BigThink this week. I was so glad to read it, because it had been a disturbingly long time – possibly as long as a whole day – since we’d last heard from someone saying we need…

The New York Times reported this month on a rift at the Center for Inquiry, whose founder Paul Kurtz claims he’s been unjustly expelled by the board of directors and the president, Ronald Lindsay. Kurtz was also interviewed by my friend Erich Vieth at Dangerous Intersection. It’s very unfortunate the way this turned out. It…

The Language of God, Chapter 3 By B.J. Marshall Collins concludes this chapter by tying his overview of cosmology to the god hypothesis. He states that “[c]learly, the scientific view is not entirely sufficient to answer all of the interesting questions about the origin of the universe, and there is nothing inherently in conflict between…

The last time I did one of these was some time ago, so I think it’s about time for another. This is an open thread for the purposes of self-promotion. If you maintain a blog or other site that you want to tell us about, now’s the time! Feel free to post a comment telling…

(Editor’s Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site’s policy for such reviews.) Summary: Entertaining but plagued with inaccuracy. William Hopper’s The Heathen’s Guide to World Religions is intended as a satirical survey of the world’s major faiths, written from an atheist perspective with sarcasm, humor and irreverence aplenty. I…

This week in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof has a column titled Test Your Savvy on Religion, discussing the American religious knowledge survey which found that atheists were better informed about faith than believers. Kristof has a pop quiz of his own, and I’m guessing that regular readers of this blog will know the…