Author: Adam Lee

The Case for a Creator, Chapter 10 In this section, J.P. Moreland (with the help of softball questions obligingly lobbed by Lee Strobel) continues to pour scorn on the idea that the brain could produce consciousness. As in the last installment, his rhetorical strategy is to attack only the weakest and most simplistic hypothesis of…

Editor’s Note: Back in March, I wrote an essay encouraging atheists to join the Foundation Beyond Belief, a new charitable group doing good for human beings and the world in the name of freethought. I also offered to write a front-page post interviewing anyone who agreed to join the Foundation as a result of hearing…

Since I’ve written a fair amount lately about the child-rape scandal engulfing the Catholic church, it would be unfair of me to overlook any steps they’ve taken toward reform. Well, you all know I’m nothing if not fair, so I have to report on this tiny, hesitant step: Last week, the Vatican for the first…

Hi folks, I know I’ve been a little spotty lately when it comes to posting and answering e-mails. Well, I have a good excuse: I’m getting married two weeks from today. If you had asked me when I announced I was engaged, back in 2008, I’d have thought that nearly two years was an incredibly…

The Case for a Creator, Chapter 10 The essence of science isn’t test tubes or lab coats, but a special kind of scrupulous intellectual honesty. It’s the willingness to try to prove yourself wrong, to subject your own ideas to the most rigorous, make-or-break tests you can conceive of. Equally as important, it’s the willingness…

I’ve received another response to my essay on Ebon Musings, “The Theist’s Guide to Converting Atheists“, which challenges theists to explain what they would accept as proof that their religious beliefs were mistaken. For the record, I’ll point out that this essay has been publicly available since June 2001, almost nine years, and in that…

Late last year, an evangelical Christian pastor in Brooklyn announced that he had secured a major grant totaling millions of dollars from the massive evangelical charity World Vision. The pastor, Isidro Bolaños, promised to use this money to hire people from the community to do faith-based social work: Mr. Bolaños, pastor of the Christian Church…

The Supreme Court heard arguments recently in a case out of California, in which a Christian student group at a public law school sued because they were denied recognition and funding by the school. The reason for this denial is that the school requires student groups to be open to all members, and the Christian…

Atheists have a great number of famous names to our credit. We can justly claim renowned composers, scientists, musicians, civil rights leaders – and conservationists, as we’ll see in today’s post on the contributions of freethinkers. Richard Leakey was born in Nairobi in 1944, son of the famous archaeologist Louis Leakey. The elder Leakey was…

The Case for a Creator, Chapter 10 Chapter 10 of Case, which concerns human consciousness and the brain, is an interview with J.P. Moreland, a Christian philosopher and theologian. Like many of Strobel’s other interview subjects, Moreland is not a scientist and has no scientific credentials to speak of – this despite Strobel’s initial boast…