NewsBusters (conservative media watchdog group) is crying “tyranny of the minority” in the Washington Post’s and MSNBC’s coverage of Michael Newdow’s inauguration suit. The complaint? Not enough counterpoint.
In the NewsBusters piece, Colleen Raezler laments that WaPo’s (very short) article includes only one counterpoint. Of course the quote in question is the only independent analysis of [...]

I was browsing around Zazzle.com the other day and came across this design:

I think the design is very clever. The red letters, of course, spell “WAR”. God may be for many things, but historically and even today war and religion have been and still are close partners. This design helps remind us that we forget this fact [...]

In a previous post I wrote about the different assumptions that Christians and atheists make concerning the nature of reality. Strictly speaking, atheism does not any assumptions - it is simply a rejection of theism. However, it seems fair to say that most atheists at least make the following assumption:

Atheists assume that the natural world [...]

In my last post I began responding to a piece by Frederick Meekins, titled “Have Yourself A Theistic (Not Atheistic) Little Christmas,“ in which he charged that atheists are just as dogmatic in their epistemological assumptions as the most zealous evangelical Christian. Now I would like to examine the rest of what he wrote on atheists and [...]

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I just had the unfortunate pleasure of reading this, dare I say, wretched article by Frederick Meekins titled “Have Yourself A Theistic (Not Atheistic) Little Christmas.” While he begins by complaining about how rabid atheists are trying to elimenate public recognition that Jesus is the Son of God - nothing unusual there - the [...]

The January 2009 issue of Scientific American (devoted to Evolution), contains an article called “The Latest Face of Creationism” by two of the directors of the National Center for Science Education. The article also contains a compact time line of the battle between evolution and creationism that has played out over the past 100 years [...]

At least that is how Mary Grabar’s article, The Atheists Who Try and Steal Christmas, begins. Google alerted me of this article this morning. The fact that it appears on Townhall.com, a conservative political website, did not give me much hope for something well reasoned and well thought out. And, indeed, it is not. There [...]

If you don’t feel like celebrating the alledged birth of Jesus of Nazareth today, why not celebrate the birth of Sir Isaac Newton (December 25, 1642)?

After all, we know for sure that Newton existed and his contributions to science positively transformed the way in which we think about and study the world! And that’s more than I [...]

In my current poll I ask whether or not atheists should celebrate Christmas. As of this writing, 65% of readers answered ‘Yes’, 25% ‘No’, and the remaining 10% were undecided. I am a bit surprised that so many people agreed that atheists should celebrate Christmas, but this is not far off from my own opinion [...]

While millions of Christians in the United States will be celebrating the birth of Jesus, non-believers perhaps can take some comfort knowing that our friends on the other side of the pond are growing increasingly skeptical of the nativity story:
Most ‘do not believe in nativity’: The majority of Britons do not believe the Biblical story [...]