Tree Man, Deformities and an Argument for Atheism
If truth be told, oftentimes when lying in bed at night with my better half, we'll put on some trashy TV whilst I tap away furiously at my keyboard. Some of
Jonathan MS Pearce
Quote of the Day: Joe on Homeopathy
I love this, in reply to the news that the NHS is banning homeopathy: The only problem now is how to dispose of the remaining stock of homeopathic remedies. You can't
The Importance of "Insignificant" Biblical Contradictions
I recently made a post about a biblical contradiction that wasn't necessarily the most damning of contradictions. The post on the issue of demoniacs and geography laid out these two issues:
Quote of the Day: Jim Dailey on Love and Atheism
I thought this might provoke a little conversation. it was Jim Dailey's offering in response to Geoff Benson on the post “Will atheists admit that there is good reason to leave
On Deconversion Accounts
As many of you might have been aware and following, there is an ongoign set of debates and conversations between Patheos Catholic blogger, Dave Armstrong, and myself. This started off by him taking
NHS Bans Homeopathy for Lack of Evidence
This is great news, being reported all over the shop just now. People like Michael Marshall and the Good Thinking Society have been campaigning for this long and hard, and it has paid
On Harmonising Biblical Contradictions
This is a post I once made for John Loftus at Debunking Christianity and contradictions came up in a recent conversation with Dave Armstrong, so here it is. Contradictions, as Dave stated, can
Beards and the Perverted Faculty Argument
Here is the third and final part in a series of pieces by regular erudite commenter Ficino (the first part can be found here, the secon here). This series will be looking at
"Will Atheists Admit That There Is Good Reason to Leave Atheism and Adopt Christianity?"
In another thread, Dave Armstrong, Catholic blogger here at Patheos, asked this: Will atheists admit that there is good reason to leave atheism and adopt Christianity? I find this an interesting question, and
Did life begin on land rather than in the sea?
This has come from the University of California Santa Cruz: For three years, Tara Djokic, a Ph.D. student at the University of New South Wales Sydney, scoured the forbidding landscape of the
To Ban or Not To Ban, That Is the Question
I recently wrote a post answering a critique by fellow Patheos (albeit Catholic channel) blogger Dave Armstrong. Fairly quickly, a number of atheist commenters, some of whom were regular commenters here (and some
Patheos Catholic-Atheist War: It's On! Respectfully Speaking...
The other day, David Armstrong from Biblical Evidence for Catholicism with Dave Armstrong, a blog on the Catholic channel here at Patheos, posted a rebuttal to one of my most recent deconversion accounts.