Atheist Ethicist

I have a question from a member of the studio audience: I'm a naturalist and I could not answer this objection to gay marriage. I thin...

An advertisement company has pulled an anti-abortion billboard that some people found offensive. The advertisement showed a young African-...

Psychology Today has an posting on the Pledge that addresses factors that I have expressed concern with for quite a while. (See Mommy, Don...

Well, I've been suffering through a flu for the past few days. It calls to mind what I consider one of the strongest pieces of evidenc...

I am afraid that I accidentally deleted three comments. I hit "delete" instead of "publish" in the comments moderation s...

Yes, I am going to belabor this point, because it is a point that deserves to be belabored. Imagine the social reaction we would see to an...

The Secular Coalition for America has designed a letter to be sent to representatives to oppose House Resolution 13, which endorses the nati...

A member of the studio audience wrote in response to my objections to "under God" and " in God we trust" that.... Just...

I am once again treated to the view that real atheists do not worry about such things as "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance o...

Would you call this individual a "terrorist"? This agent does not like to get his hands dirty. He does not blow things up himsel...

Apparently, the fact that a category 5 cyclone (Australian for hurricane) has hit Australia is because the country has an atheist prime mini...

Today, NASA will hold a press conference discussing the most recent discoveries of the Kepler Observatoty. The Kepler space telescope is w...

PZ Myers decided to get some atheists mad at him by mocking certain common atheist claims. Why are you an atheist? Among his criticisms....

A group of wealthy conservatives are meeting in Palm Springs to discuss how they are going to influence the next election - to put Republica...

I know it is a bit late, but I thought I would weigh in with a comment about Ricky Gervais' statement at the end of the Golden Globe cer...

One of the objections I have often raised against free market systems has been highlight the fiction that it allocates resources towards its...

I recently argued that government regulatory agencies will almost. Inevitably become yet another tool that the regulated industry will use. ...

Regulatory agencies will quite often become a tool of the very people they regulate. They will use the agency to add another source of reven...

PZ Myers has posted a response to his response to a criticism of new atheists. (See: Stephen Asma Responds ) The response contains the f...

When it comes to balancing the federal budget, one of the possibilities that commonly come up is abolishing the NEA. This is a nice, easy ...