Western Literature and the Death of God
This essay attempts to do two things. Firstly, it seeks to offer a brief tour of some of the developments in western literature,…
'Mind Viruses and Memes' - thinking errors in a freethinker
My focus in this essay is to illustrate, through a detailed analysis of one particular article, the range of fallacious tactics that are…
What Would God say to Richard Dawkins?
Melvin Tinker considers what God might want to say to Richard Dawkins in the light of his recent book The God Delusion. For more…
The Faith Based Dawkins
At the start of 2005, online magazine ‘Edge The World Question Centre’ posed the following question to a number of scientific…
Dawkins and the Public Understanding of Scientism
Zoologist Dr. Richard Dawkins (1941-) is ‘materialistic, reductionist and overtly anti-religious.’[1] Charles Simonyi, head of…
Atheism and Child Abuse
I woke up this morning to a radio news item about the continuing scandal of child abuse carried out by some Catholic priests during the…
Reclaiming Reason from Atheism
If evolution programs our brains for survival, not truth, and humanity evolved to believe in God, how can atheists trust that their…
The Scandinavian Sceptic (or why atheism is a belief system)
Is atheism a claim or simply a non-belief? A comparison to not believing that Sweden exists helps to clarify the issues.
Stoning and the Cherry Pickers
This article responds to Sam Harris’ assertion that one can justify stoning someone to death for adultery by appealing to the New…