"That's just your interpretation"
The little robotic sparrow lying on its back twitching occasionally while stuck inside a window at the Tate Modern is a piece by the Danish…
Understanding the New Atheism
A 2-part series on the New Atheism looks at (1) The Straw God and then (2) Attacks on the New Testament.
Francis Schaeffer's "True Truth"
A reflection on the life of Francis Schaeffer, particularly getting into his ideas on Truth and their relevance for today.
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.
The Dawkins Letters
The Dawkins Letters are a response to Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion. The author, David Robertson, wrote a series of letters to…
'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…
Assumptions Behind Derrida's Theory of Deconstruction
Derrida lays many of his presuppositions out in a hard but very important essay called 'Structure, Sign and Play' in the Discourse of the…
How to be an Atheist - a review
Are sceptics really as sceptical as they claim? In this book, Mitch Stokes calls on atheists and Christians alike to be more sceptical.