Author: Adam Lee

Because this strategy worked so well for Elizabeth Dole, another conservative politician has decided to make a play for the bigot vote by stirring up anti-atheist prejudice against a challenger. In this case, it’s on a smaller scale: a race for city council in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You can read about it in the New…

(Editor’s Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site’s policy for such reviews.) If you’ve been around the atheist blogosphere, you probably know the name Christopher Hallquist, author of the blog The Uncredible Hallq (I’ve always wondered, does he get more skeptical when he gets angry?). Well, it seems he’s…

I’m not generally a big user of social networking sites, but I did decide to join Atheist Nexus yesterday. If you’re there too, you can find me there and add me as a friend.

I haven’t written about any new transitional fossils in a while, so it’s a great pleasure for me to mention this one: a hominid skeleton nicknamed “Ardi”, a specimen of Ardipithecus ramidus. This species was known from other fossil fragments, but Ardi is one of the oldest and most complete hominids found so far, and…

In my last post on the religious right view of marriage, some commenters took me to task for painting with too broad a brush. In this post, I’ll consider how widely held such views are. It’s a fair point that not all conservative Christians hold views as extreme as those I criticized. Nevertheless, the views…

Today is International Blasphemy Day, inaugurated as a protest against the new Irish blasphemy law, the Muslim furor over cartoons of Muhammad, and every other law or social norm intended to protect religious ideas from criticism. From the Blasphemy Day website: The last day in September is the anniversary of the original publication of Danish…

The researchers behind the ARIS, which is the gold standard for American religious demographics, have released a new study that builds on their 2008 results with an in-depth look at one group that’s near and dear to our hearts: “American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population“. (HT: Friendly Atheist) As always, there’s plenty…

I’ve posted a link to a new deconversion story on Ebon Musings: “Deconversion as Withdrawal: Just what is this God-smack stuff, anyway?“, written by the vivacious and loquacious blogger D of She Who Chatters (whom you may recognize from her comments here on Daylight Atheism). Having posted this, it occurs to me that I haven’t…

The Case for a Creator, Chapter 5 The second premise of the kalam cosmological argument is that the universe began to exist. In discussing this premise, William Lane Craig asks the question of whether the universe necessarily had a beginning or whether it could have existed for an infinite amount of time before now. He…

Christian conservatives always talk about “defending traditional marriage” – which has that warm, homey, fresh-baked-apple-pie feeling to it – but never make it clear precisely what they’re defending. This is deliberate, of course, and a clever political strategy: they choose phrases with positive mental associations but otherwise leave their position vague. That way, ordinary people…