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March 2009

March 20, 2009
In 2006 and 2007, I wrote several entries in a series called A World in...
March 18, 2009
One of the bedrock claims of creationism is that mutation can never create new information,...
March 17, 2009
I've put up a new post on Dangerous Intersection, "A 24-hour news network lineup I’d...
March 16, 2009
(Editor's Note: This review was solicited and is written in accordance with this site's policy...
March 15, 2009
An accusation that's often leveled against atheists is that we lack charitable impulses, that faith-based...
March 13, 2009
As you've surely heard by now, the landmark 2008 American Religious Identification Survey has just...
March 11, 2009
In the book of First Corinthians, there's a passage that's frequently cited by Christian apologists:...
March 09, 2009
A correspondent to William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith column writes in with a very good...
March 08, 2009
I've uploaded a new essay to Ebon Musings, "Dating the Good News". This essay attempts...
March 07, 2009
Regular readers of Daylight Atheism may recall how this site became involved in the U.S....
March 06, 2009
To those who are following the continuing genocide in Darfur, every day brings grim headlines:...
March 04, 2009
One of the more tiresome parts of being an atheist is having to deal with...
March 02, 2009
(This essay was originally published in issue #1 of the AHS newsletter, Secular Future.) As...
March 01, 2009
If we're going to create a world more friendly to reason, we need to raise...

February 2009

February 27, 2009
As any regular reader of Daylight Atheism knows, the topic of morality is a major...
February 25, 2009
Past entries in "The Contributions of Freethinkers" have discussed nonbelievers and dissenters whose lives made...
February 23, 2009
Evangelical pastor Ray Stedman knows the root cause of everything that's wrong with the world:...
February 22, 2009
Today's Poetry Sunday introduces a new poet: the freethinker, civil libertarian, and Renaissance man extraordinaire,...
February 21, 2009
Last week, James Adkisson was sentenced to life in prison. Adkisson was the right-wing terrorist...
February 20, 2009
I'm pleased to announce the launch of the National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular...
February 19, 2009
In a previous post, "The Soft Landing", I wrote about the future and about one...
February 17, 2009
"Atheism and communism always seem to go hand in hand," begins a letter to the...
February 15, 2009
Considering how often I've written about this topic in the past, I had some reluctance...
February 14, 2009
In Second Corinthians, the Bible contains a widely cited teaching against interfaith relationships: "Be ye...
February 13, 2009
On a wintry day late last year, I visited the Museum of Natural History in...
February 11, 2009
In the past, I've written about the origins of religion and how belief in gods...
February 10, 2009
Oh yes - it's that time again. As difficult as it is for me to...
February 09, 2009
In one of my first posts on Daylight Atheism, I asked whether atheists should evangelize....
February 07, 2009
The last time I did a post like this, it was to share some of...
February 06, 2009
Last month's post "On Cryonics" outlined why I'm skeptical of that transhumanist doctrine. In today's...
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