At the other extreme, if a significant number of people convince themselves, or are convinced by their priests, that a martyr ...

From Kirk Cameron’s impossible promise to William Lane Craig’s cosmology overreach, these losses offer a useful lesson in how ...

Taibbi claims art transcends politics, but his selective outrage over Hetfield exposes the contradictions of his own ...

Many who had initially embraced the New Atheism found that it failed to deliver the secure knowledge they longed for or a ...

In reviewing the debate, the author contrasts Lennox’s praise for Singer’s charitable work with his objections to Singer’s views on infanticide and euthanasia, framing them as consequences of an ...

Skeptics question my honesty when I say I’m both a scientist and a Christian. They refuse to take seriously someone who believes in quantum physics and calls Jesus his Lord and Savior. The most ...

I am still very sorry for your loss, Mr Hitchens. I truly hope that your brother was wrong about the existence of an afterlife, and that the two of you will be able to annoy each other again at some ...

I am an atheist, you know it’s not a religion. That cartoon is not a scientist saying that an individual modern fish turned into a human, or that a fish produced a human offspring. My challenge was to ...

Recently, a fellow philosopher offered an interesting and provocative philosophical argument that even atheists should pray. As I'll try to show here, I don't think that argument works. Suppose that ...