Atheist Ethicist

This is a series that I am writing describing the history of the Apollo moon landings - 50 years ago. The Apollo project provides an excelle...

Laura, the Red Headed Skeptic, wrote a post On Truth that I would like to comment on. My first objection comes from her disclaimer: I f...

Luke Muehlhauser has uploaded another episode of the podcast, Morality in the Real World Morality in the Real World 03: Alph and Betty on ...

I continue to see atheists attempt to answer the question, "How do we motivate people to do good and to not do evil without appealing t...

Luke has posted Episode 2 of our joint podcast, Morality in the Real World on his site. You can get to it at: Morality in the Real World ...

I have quite frequently complained about the bigotry of atheist writers who make "derogatory overgeneralizations" about religion -...

Luke Muehlhauser, over at Common Sense Atheism and I are creating a series of podcasts to describe Desirism (a.k.a. Desire Utilitarianism) ...

The most recent comment I received to my posting on burning the Koran has come from a severely morally challenged individual. First, note ...

There is an aspect of this "International Burn the Koran Day" that is not getting the attention that I think it merits. At this ...

It appears that a some nutball atheist has committed an act of terrorism. It is easy to imagine what would have appeared on atheist blogs ...

I saw this article today: Humanists Decry Stem Cell Research Ruling (See: Humanists Decry Stem Cell Research Ruling ) I would like to ...

One of the reasons why atheists are so politically impotent in America is because they allow statements like those of Republican candidate M...

Imagine that I present the following research proposal. I am going to bring in people off of the street and pay them some small amount of ...

I have written in recent posts that some form of condemnation is legitimate. Somebody who makes harsh derogatory comments about the behavior...

A couple of posts ago, I suggested that Phil Plait, in his "Don't Be a Dick" speech, asked the wrong question for understandin...

I have been avoiding the fact that the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" is not a mosque but a community center with a basket ball co...

"How many of you lost your faith because somebody called you an idiot?" Several atheist bloggers have embedded a talk by Phil Plai...

If there was ever a wrong solution to a non-problem, the Governor of New York has found it. In order to prevent the construction of a Musl...

In order to demonstrate the bigotry inherent in the attacks on the proposed Muslim community center near the World Trade Center, I took the ...

Let's imagine . . . Well, many people are familiar with people who protest at funerals for American soldiers saying that each death is...