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The Modern Library contains material written during or after 1970, which tends to be more scholarly than Kiosk material.
Jeff Lowder Media Nonfiction
Media & ReviewsNonfiction Books The following are selected works for further study. While space constraints prevent listing every possible book under each category, this bibliography attempts to list what the editor considers the best contemporary books for each topic. While this bibliography is slanted in favor of atheism, the editor has selected one or two […]
Jerry Borchandt Factor
Review of "The Resurrection Factor" by Josh McDowell (1982) Jerry Wayne Borchandt [Note: the following review originally appeared in the July/August 1982 issue of The American Rationalist.] Josh McDowell is fundamentalism’s popular apologist, proselyter, and propagandist. He is said to be a persuasive speaker on the secular college campus as well as a favorite writer […]
Ken Saladin Saladin Gish2 Question
Question-Answer Period Moderator: We’ll now have a 30-minute question and answer session, with audience members asking the questions. We’ll probably need some lights out in the audience, and we’ll recognize you, raise your hand, and address your question to one speaker or the other. And the next questioner should ask a question of the other […]
Larry Taylor Messiahgate
MessiahGate A Tale of Murder and Deception by Larry A. Taylor Originally printed in HUMSIG newsletter, Number 7, August 1987; Larry A. Taylor, ed. Lecture delivered at Humanist Society of Friends (Los Angeles), August 27, 1987. Larry A. Taylor 5671 S. Newlin Ave. Whittier, CA 90601 Copyright HUMSIG, 1987. Jerusalem; it’s a tough town, but […]
Mark Vuletic Gamow
A Representative Example of Intellectual Dishonesty in the pathlights.com Creation-Evolution Encyclopedia (1997) Mark I. Vuletic The pathlights.com Creation-Evolution Encyclopedia may very well have the dubious honor of being the worst piece of creationist literature ever written. In this paper, I will examine a passage representative of the lack of integrity and low intellectual caliber […]
Massimo Pigliucci Column
Columns for Massimo Pigliucci Rationally Speaking (Off Site) A monthly column of thoughts about skepticism, humanism, science, and pseudoscience.
Mathew Sn Einstein
More on Einstein and Quantum Mechanics mathew [ Traducción al Español / Spanish translation ] There is nothing inherent in Quantum Theory which requires randomness. In the 1950s, Bohm developed a deterministic nonlocal theory which is consistent with all the predictions of quantum mechanics. Einstein sought a theory which was “locally causal” or “locally […]
Michael Martin Fernandes Martin Martin2
I am grateful to Dr. Fernandes for the courteous tone he has adopted in this debate and his thoughtful attempt to answer my criticisms. Response to Misunderstandings of Atheism In my opening statement I said that Dr. Fernandes misunderstood atheism because he claimed that atheism is committed to materialism, epistemological relativism, epistemological skepticism, ethical relativism, […]
Michael Martin Logic
Does Logic Presuppose the Existence of the Christian God? (2000) Michael Martin The Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God (TAG)–the argument that logic, science, and objective ethical standards presuppose the existence of the Christian God–has been repeatedly used by a small group of Christian apologists operating within the Orthodox Presbyterian tradition. In the […]
Michael Martin Reply
Reply to Butler, Ventrella, and Fields (1996) Michael Martin Introduction On the evening of October 26, 1994 a debate on the existence of God was scheduled between the late Greg Bahnsen and me at Rhodes College. This debate was canceled when SCCCS and I could not agree on whether the debate was to be […]
Michael Moore God Doesnt Punish
God Doesn’t Punish? (2019) Michael Moore The claim that “God doesn’t punish” appears about 100,000 times on Google; another 150,000 hits can be found when French, German, Russian, and Spanish equivalents are also added. Haven’t the authors of this phrase heard of the Flood (Genesis 6:7): “So the LORD said, “I will wipe from the […]
Nicholas Tattersall Miracles
A Critique of Miracles by C. S. Lewis (2000) Nicholas Tattersall Introduction More than thirty years after his death, C. S. Lewis is still world-famous as a literary critic, as an author of children’s fiction and as a Christian apologist. His works have been translated into many languages and they are widely read and […]
Nontheism Atheism Evidentialism
Evidentialism Do Atheists Bear a Burden of Proof? A Reply to Prof. Ralph McInerny (1997) by Keith M. Parsons Parsons rebuts Prof Ralph McInerny’s claim that the burden of proof should fall on the unbeliever. Is Atheism Presumptuous? A Reply to Paul Copan (2000) by Jeffery Jay Lowder Lowder refutes Paul Copan’s claim that Antony […]
Nontheism Atheism Negative
On the Nonexistence of God and Proving a Negative A common objection to atheism is that it is impossible to “prove a negative.” This objection is exposed as a myth: it is possible to prove a negative, and several examples are provided in the articles by Carrier, Lowder, and Vuletic. It is therefore illegitimate to […]
Paul Copan Visage
Addressing Those Colossal Misunderstandings: A Response to Doug Krueger (1999) Paul Copan Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Having read Doug Krueger’s critique[1] of Ravi Zacharias’ book A Shattered Visage,[2] I was shocked at his vitriol and unwarranted sarcasm. However, I am grateful to the powers that be at the Secular Web/Internet Infidels website, who have […]
Paul Kurtz Allen
A Tribute to Steve Allen By Dr. Paul Kurtz With the death of Steve Allen, American culture has lost a unique Leonardo, an exceptional man of thought and action – and the humanist and skeptical movements in particular have suffered the grievous loss of an heroic supporter. Steve Allen’s talents were many-dimensional. He has been […]
Paul Obrien Gentle Atheism8
Let me assess James’ conclusion about theism and elaborate upon which points we disagree upon. I want to show why some atheists, like me, might see Godlessness as preferable to theism under the light of serious doubts and criticisms. I will find faults with theism, but they are not conclusive or irreparably damaging. They are […]
Quentin Smith Quantum
[This article was originally published in Analysis 57.4, October 1997, pp. 295-304.] Quantum Cosmology’s Implication of Atheism (1997) Quentin Smith ‘In principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing ‘first cause’ problem intrinsic in cosmology has finally been dispelled.’ Fang and Wu, (1986):3) 1. The quantum […]
Richard Carrier Analogyreply
What Can We Infer from the Present about the Past? (2006) Richard Carrier In “Do No Miracles Today Imply None in the Past? A Critique of Richard Carrier’s Methodology,” Amy Sayers responds to an argument in my collection of essays “Why I Don’t Buy the Resurrection Story” (6th ed., 2006). In particular, she responds […]
Richard Carrier Carrier Oconnell Oconnell2
O’Connell’s First Rebuttal (2008) Response to “What Paul Said” Carrier here throws out a number of passages which he thinks make better sense if Paul accepted a two-body theory of resurrection (hereafter 2BT). But it can be clearly demonstrated that all of these passages are either better explained on a one-body theory (hereafter 1BT), […]
Richard Carrier Carrier Wanchick Wanchick4
Wanchick’s Closing Statement (2006) Basic Argument for Naturalism (BAN) Per Carrier, P1 assumes science specifically is the “most reliable method” for finding truth. Scientific indication is sufficient for belief. But Carrier’s opening statement failed to demonstrate that science (or any discipline) provides a sufficient condition for belief. He now says it’s obvious that science […]
Richard Carrier Foster8
Bad Science, Worse Philosophy: the Quackery and Logic-Chopping of David Foster’s The Philosophical Scientists (2000) 8. Misrepresenting Darwinism Richard Carrier Foster’s main enemy is Darwinism, which he claims to have ‘refuted.’ But he seems to have no proper idea of what Darwinism actually is. Some of his misrepresentations may be polemic. Take for […]
Richard Carrier Improbable Disproof
Was Christianity Too Improbable to be False? (2006) [See Introduction] Richard Carrier 7. Was Christianity Highly Vulnerable to Inspection and Disproof? 7.1 General Argument 7.2 The Problem of Differing Research Paradigms 7.3 The Problem of Luke’s Methods as a Historian 7.4 First Example: Luke on Paul’s Trial 7.5 Holding’s Argument Backfires 7.6 Second Example: Luke on Agrippa’s Cause of […]
Richard Carrier Indef 2
What’s Good and Bad in In Defense of Miracles (1999, 2005) Richard Carrier [Part 2 of a more comprehensive Review of In Defense of Miracles.] Many of the chapters in the book In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for God’s Action in History (1997) make arguments that need to be addressed, or at […]
Richard Carrier Kooks
Kooks and Quacks of the Roman Empire: A Look into the World of the Gospels (1997) Richard Carrier We all have read the tales told of Jesus in the Gospels, but few people really have a good idea of their context. Yet it is quite enlightening to examine them against the background of […]
Richard Carrier Resurrection 2i
This file has been relocated: it is now Section X of Probability of Survival vs. Miracle: Assessing the Odds.
Richard Carrier Resurrection 4a
This file has been relocated: it is now Section I of Rebutting Lesser Arguments.
Richard Carrier Thallus
Thallus: An Analysis (1999) Richard Carrier [A formal peer reviewed version of the research in this article is now available in volume 8 of the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, under the title “Thallus and the Darkness at Christ’s Death” (PDF). The new article updates and supersedes the old.] This is a preliminary […]
Richard Petraitis Witch Killers
The Witch Killers of Africa (2003) Richard Petraitis In June of 2001, villagers of Congo’s northeast provinces began a bloody witch eradication campaign, sparing neither neighbor, nor friend. Alleged witches were unceremoniously hacked apart by machete-wielding vigilantes, bringing about a scene of carnage unmatched since the machete killing-sprees of the Rwanda Crisis. The innocent […]
Robert Price Beyond Born Again Appendix
________________________________________ 159 Beyond Born Again Appendix: Getting A New Start Some readers may have been taken aback at my suggestion at the end of Chapter 10, that I can deem leaving Evangelicalism a viable option. It is clear to me that there are individuals whose experience with Evangelical Christianity has been negative enough in the […]