Atheist Ethicist

From time to time I come across calls for atheists to organize and to participate in a campaign to spread atheism among the believers. In th...

In a recent Supreme Court decision, Hudson v. Michigan , in which it argued that evidence collected in an illegal search of a person’s house...

I have mentioned this argument in passing before. However, I would like to bring it to the forefront for some proper attention. It is an ref...

Today, the House of Representatives debated House Resolution 861 . Sometimes, I wish that I was a member of Congress, and had the freedom ...

Thanks to Al Gore's movie " An Inconvenient Truth " the global warming debate is back in the news. In reading up on this debat...

It appears that no charges will be filed against Karl Rove relating to the Valerie Plame investigation. I suspect that many Democrats wil...

I did not mean for this to be a series. It’s just that, at the end of each day, I had one more item that I wanted to cover. This should be t...

I have spent two days discussing the importance of true beliefs – and the importance of a culture that praise and reward those who show a lo...

Yesterday, in a posting dedicated to the value of true beliefs , and the social value of holding the dishonest and the intellectually irresp...

A few days ago, Ebonmuse at Daylight Atheism addressed the issue " Why Do We Care ?" He was concerned with the question of why s...

Sometimes, to understand the reasonableness of an argument, we only need to use it in a slightly different context. President Smith Reacts...

I have some questions for those who are disposed to link morality and evolution -- those who think that "morality" is an evolved s...