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…
Dawkins and the Abuse of History
When Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion was published in 2006, it quickly became the rallying manifesto of what has been termed New…
'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…
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…
God and Richard Dawkins
John Lennox speaks about God and Richard Dawkins and undermines the concept that religion and science are in inevitable conflict with each…
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.
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Cell biologist Lewis Wolpert has recently attained a measure of notoriety with the British public, primarily through the publication of his…
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,…
The Challenge of Atheism
Three talks by Wim Rietkerk entitled 'The Challenge of Atheism' consider whether Christianity whould be seen as an ideology or as a…