Here is the story of my intellectual development, and the consequences which followed. I apologize for the length, but I think all of the information is important to the story. I also apologize for the informal style, as much of the stuff here is very emotional to me and nobody besides myself proofread it before I submitted it.

Make life better, in spite of the craziness.

Crackpot militias: guns against "the Antichrist."

Planet positions don't dictate people's lives.

Index of pages in the Craig-Washington Debate: Does God Exist?

This is a transcript of a debate on the existence of God, between Dr. William Lane Craig and Dr. Corey Washington, which took place on 9 February 1995 at the University of Washington, before an audience well over 1500 people.

I want to say a couple things about atheism and about the kind of evidence that I think one has to give in support of that, or theism. Tonight I'm going to be defending atheism, the view that God doesn't exist. I'm going to try to give you good reasonable, rational arguments for atheism. At the same time, I'm going to give you what I take to be good, solid arguments against the thesis that God exists.

I want to at least refer to the arguments I gave against God's existence.

I want to address at least a couple of Dr. Craig's objections.

Let’s run through some of the claims that Dr. Craig made.

Cultists plant nerve gas to kill subway passengers.

Once again, supernaturalism produces mass deaths.

As death nears, heaven fantasies are self-deception.

A Close Look at Dr. Hovind’s List of Young-Earth Arguments and Other Claims (1995) Dave E. Matson Specific Young-Earth Arguments Carbon-14 and Radiometric Dating The Geologic Column Some Additional Topics Examined Miscellaneous Topics Bibliography

A popular response to the problem of evil contends that there is a necessary connection between free will and the existence of moral (or human-caused) evil. Alvin Plantinga, for instance, has advanced a concept of "transworld depravity"--essentially the idea that in any possible world where a given person has substantial free will, that person will necessarily commit at least one immoral act. In criticizing Plantinga's notion of transworld depravity, Clement Dore offers an alternative solution. But Weisberger argues that Dore's solution also fails because the existence of free will in no way necessitates either the human capacity to act wrongly or the excessive amount of moral evil we actually find in the world. Weisberger concludes that the free will defense utterly fails to undermine the argument from evil.

It stemmed from a famous doomsday fiasco.

Holy-rollers and holy hucksters.

Women stoned, Ulster bombed, as faith goes bonkers.

A fundamentalist uprising against "godless" textbooks.

Criminals and psychos among ministers.

Waco was merely the latest faith disaster.

This is a compendium of quotations supporting the separation of state and church compiled by Ed and Michael Buckner. All of these quotes have been throughly researched. None are "out of context" or otherwise misleading. For example, the bogus John Adams' quote, "...this would be the best of all possible worlds if there were no religion in it ..." is not included. This compendium is an excellent reference for debating zealots who claim that this is a "Christian Nation", all of Founding Fathers were twice borns, and other nonsense.

Is the Bible the work of God? Is it a valid guidebook? How can we know? This introduction serves as a very basic preface to the makeup of the Bible and to how the Bible came about, as well as to some basic kinds of possible biblical problems—especially the kinds of problems inherent in a fundamentalist/literalist approach to the Bible that views the Bible as the inerrant, infallible, inspired, and plenary "Word" of a perfect, omnipotent, and loving God.

The author uses a two-letter system of abbreviations for the various books which make up the Bible. Although not unique, it is somewhat unusual. This is the key to those abbreviations.

In the author's opinion, these particular verses are so inconsistent with each other and/or with reality as to be fatal to the claim that the Bible was inspired by a perfect and omnipotent "God."

In the author's opinion, these verses represent absurdities which would not be characteristic of inspiration by a perfect and omnipotent "God."

In the author's opinion, these verses represent atrocities which would not be characteristic of inspiration by a perfect, omnipotent, just, and loving "God."

In the author's opinion, these verses represent inconsistencies which would not be characteristic of inspiration by a perfect "God." Note: The author makes a subtle distinction between the terms "inconsistency" and "contradiction"; please see his explanation in the disclaimer at the top of this article, and keep in mind that at least some of the listed inconsistencies could certainly be considered biblical contradictions.

In the author's opinion, these verses represent precepts and/or guidelines which would not be characteristic of inspiration by a perfect "God," precepts and/or guidelines which are even sometimes downright ridiculous.

In the author's opinion, these verses could be taken as being sufficiently vulgar as to be unworthy of having been inspired by a perfect "God," verses which--were they not in the Bible--would likely be considered even by many Jews and Christians to be "vulgar."