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August 2014

August 05, 2014
Some casually apologists toss around the idea of infinity. If they understood some of the...
August 01, 2014
How do we know that Mark wrote Mark? Why believe the claims that Mark documented...

July 2014

July 30, 2014
Don’t think the Bible gets saner as you move from the Old Testament to the...
July 29, 2014
Christians like to look down on Israel’s Old Testament neighbors. (“Of course God was justified...
July 25, 2014
Same-sex marriage seems inevitable, and much of the Christian church in America is opposed to...
July 23, 2014
A hoax that bested showman P.T. Barnum has an interesting religious thread.
July 21, 2014
William Lane Craig is the insane gift that keeps on giving, a cornucopia of crazy....
July 18, 2014
Can science say that anything doesn’t exist? Sure—unicorns, dragons, wizards. It doesn’t say this with...
July 16, 2014
A Christian and an atheist debate God’s existence in this 3-part excerpt from my book...
July 15, 2014
A Christian and an atheist debate God’s existence in this 3-part excerpt from my book...
July 14, 2014
A Christian and an atheist debate God’s existence in this 3-part excerpt from my book...
July 11, 2014
How do we handle claims of unicorns and other fanciful beasts? These don’t perplex us;...
July 09, 2014
This life advice approaches things from a different angle.
July 07, 2014
A Christian and an atheist debate various arguments for the truth of the Bible in...
July 04, 2014
A Christian podcast spent an hour responding to columnist Dan Savage’s public spanking of the...
July 02, 2014
Is war an inherent part of society or is it just an invention? If an...

June 2014

June 30, 2014
Mathematician Blaise Pascal famously compared belief in God to a wager. In this scene from...
June 27, 2014
A Christian podcast spent an hour responding to columnist Dan Savage’s public spanking of the...
June 25, 2014
A Christian author proposes four simple rules for winnowing historical truth from legend. Let’s try...
June 23, 2014
One particular logical fallacy springs too easily to many Christians’ lips. It’s easy to spot,...
June 21, 2014
It’s not just Christians who do good works. I’d like to tell you about a...
June 20, 2014
A Christian podcast spent an hour responding to columnist Dan Savage’s public spanking of the...
June 18, 2014
Any of us are susceptible to the allure of the pleasing supernatural answer over harsh...
June 16, 2014
Take a look at this outrageous ad from 30 years ago and see if it...
June 13, 2014
Claims that prayer actually does work aren’t hard to find. Finding the evidence to back...
June 11, 2014
Superman comes to earth to save humanity just like Jesus. Though the stories are similar,...
June 09, 2014
“I have a personal relationship with Jesus” comes easily to the lips of many Christians....
June 06, 2014
Christians and Star Trek fans (the kind who dress up like Vulcans and Klingons) share...
June 04, 2014
Christians have a shaky relationship with evidence. They embrace it—in fact, say they’re the rational...
June 02, 2014
What Would Jesus Do? Ask different Christians, and you’ll get different answers. What good is...
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