I’ve been an atheist for 30 years. But then I came across the Kalam cosmological argument presented by Willian Lane-Craig. It changed my life!
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Atheist epistemology?
I CAN ACCEPT SOMETHING THAT MAKES SENSE AND I CAN ACCEPT SOMETHING THAT EITHER HAS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OR WORKS IN PRACTICE.
I CANNOT BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT NEITHER MAKES SENSE NOR HAS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE.
I was challenged in a FaceBook group recently to discuss a series of points pertaining to religion, atheism and the philosophical bases of each.
Unlike the majority of these requests, things like
“Give me scientific proof that you’re an atheist”
which are too ridiculous to bother making a video about but this one was different. This demonstrated an intelligent approach apparently genuine issues that my interlocutor actually seemed to be serious about – and not just another theist troll.
Being atheist
I’m an atheist. That doesn’t mean that I claim to know the answers to life, the universe and everything.
I’m an atheist. That doesn’t mean that I claim to know the answers to life, the universe and everything. It simply means that I don’t believe such answers, should they exist, would involve a God or Gods. That’s because I don’t believe in any God or Gods.
If you want to know about my actual worldview, philosophy or ideology you will need to ask me because, frankly my atheism doesn’t explain anything more than is contained in the first paragraph above.
From my perspective those who preach or prosyletise about Gods fall into one of 3 categories. They are either…
- Deceitful,
- Gullible,
- Both.
Either way they’re not fit to lead.
‘Twas the church before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas,
And all through the church,
The faithful were gathering,
And praying in search,
Of some mystical moment,
Remembering the birth…
Twas the night before Christmas,
And all through the church,
The faithful were gathering,
And praying in search,
Of some mystical moment,
Remembering the birth…
God of the gaps
He no longer makes lightning, volcanos or trees,
No divine visitations bring us to our knees!
He’s the God of the gaps,
And that’s all you can say.
As His hiding places shrink,
He will soon go away!
A creationist UK science teacher
Nick Cowan is a creationist who also understands the principles of science. He’s a retired UK chemistry teacher who also taught creationism to the same state school pupils in his A level general studies class. I asked him how this could possibly make sense. What followed was a passionate but genial conversation between two people who hold diametrically opposing views.
What Christian morality?
Your moral compass points right back to the bronze age!
There is no such thing as Christian morality in any meaningful sense. Rather there’s a list of ancient rules, many of which make no sense at all in the modern world.
Real abuse from the God of Abraham
God is not a good role model
There is no more abusive character than the Abrahamic God than in the whole of fiction.
I’m on ‘The Unshaw podcast’!
My discussion about faith, atheism, mental health, evolution and nursing with Robert Shaw
The Unshaw podcast discusses faith, atheism, religiosity and a whole lot more besides. In this episode Robert Shaw (no, not THAT Robert Shaw) and I discuss mental health, faith and deconversion, politics and even evolutionary psychology.
Visit the Unshaw podcast and have a listen. Go on … you know you want to!
The bestest Bible: Genesis 6
God says he’ll drown everyone on earth except the fish. God seems to like fish.
This is the part where God says he’ll drown everyone on earth along with all the other creatures, even the creeping things. But not the fish. God seems to like fish. That’s why he invented Fridays.
But an old guy named Noah won’t drown and neither will his kids and their wives (apart from Tarquin, his youngest). Nor will shit loads of animals. They’ll all suffocate instead below decks in a massive boat with only one window.
The God free guide 