Atheist Ethicist

Government Funding for Space Development This article concerns the case for the public funding of space development - a case that even a R...

Today, I will take up one of the most commonly heard objections to spending money on space development - that we have real problems on earth...

A comment on an earlier post represents a common attitude about the space program. Breakerslion wrote: Seems a lot easier to take care o...

What is the carrying capacity of the asteroid belt? By this, I mean that irradiated vacuum-packed collection of rocks and gravel equalling 3...

What is the value of a space program? Value is determined by a relationship between what is true of a state of affairs and its consequence...

The value of a space program, like the value of anything, is determined by the desires it fulfills or thwarts. The meteor impact in Russia...

Last week's cosmic coincidence - the meteor airburst in Russia that injured over 1000 people and damaged property across thousands of sq...

I have spent a couple of weeks now arguing that the claim that evolution cannot account for (prescriptive) morality is no myth. I wish to co...

Before we get lost, let's go back to where this series began. It began with yet another example of an error that permeates the atheist...

One of the tricks that evolutionary psychologists use to defend the claim that they have an evolutionary basis for morality is this: They ...

My point, rather, is that evolutionary psychology contributes far more to our understanding of morality than the mere fact that we are inten...

Today, I want to add some specificity to the claim I have been defending recently - "evolution cannot account for morality" is no ...

"Evolution cannot account for morality" is no myth. It is a fact. This week, I am responding to a statement calling the proposit...

I am using this week to answer comments concerning my post on the relationship between evolution and morality. I am responding specificall...

I am using this week to answer comments concerning my post on the relationship between evolution and morality. I am responding specificall...

I am going to spend this week going over some of the comments made to my post last week about the relationship between evolution and moralit...

I get discouraged from time to time. I would like to see the atheist community embrace reason and evidence-based conclusions. Many claim t...