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The Modern Library contains material written during or after 1970, which tends to be more scholarly than Kiosk material.
Richard Carrier Ought
What an Atheist Ought to Stand For (1999) (Revised 2004) Richard Carrier A Justifiable Lament There is a common and justifiable lament that atheists are so preoccupied by naming and arguing what they are against, that people rarely hear what atheists are for. This is not only heard from the religious critics of […]
Richard Carrier Resurrection 2e
This file has been relocated: it is now Section V of Probability of Survival vs. Miracle: Assessing the Odds.
Richard Carrier Resurrection 3i
This file has been relocated: it is now Section IX of General Case for Spiritual Resurrection: Evidence Against Resurrection of the Flesh.
Richard Carrier Skepsis
Comprehensive Bibliography on Skeptical Thought in the Ancient World (1998) Richard Carrier (copyright 1999) This bibliography is not as complete as I would like. However, it does contain every reference that could be found in every relevant electronic database known to me (and accessible through Columbia University), including everything that could be found in […]
Richard Packham Jsmith
Joseph Smith as a Prophet Richard Packham The Latter-Day Saints (“Mormons”) hold as among the first and most important principles of their religion, on which all the rest is based, that the founder of their church, Joseph Smith Jr. (1805-1844) was literally a prophet of God, if not the greatest prophet ever to have […]
Robert Mcnally Challenge
McNally’s Challenge Robert McNally This is an experiment for Christians (or theists in general) who are in a crisis of faith. Perhaps you’re hanging around atheist areas of Usenet or the Web because you’ve begun to doubt your faith, and are hoping to find something there to push you one way or the other. Well, […]
Robert Price Beyond Born Again Footnote
________________________________________ 143 Beyond Born Again Footnote References Introduction Malcolm Boyd, Christian, Its Meanings in an Age of Future Shock (New York: Hawthorn Bokos, 1975), p. 70. Clark H. Pinnock, Biblical Revelation– The Foundation of Christian Theology (Chicago: Moody Press, 1976), p. 14. Carl F. H. Henry, Frontiers in Modern Theology (Chicago: Moody Press, 1968), pp. […]
Robert Price Price Rankin Price2
Closing Statement Robert M. Price Well, my presentation has not tried to promote a dogma, as some have heard. I think that may be a result of just sort of hearing what you’re used to hearing, perhaps. I don’t mean to preach any notion as infallibly true. I seek in any teaching I do […]
Science Creationism Reviews
Creationism Book Reviews Another Case Not Made: A Critique of Lee Strobel’s The Case for a Creator (2005) by Paul Doland In this chapter-by-chapter critique of Lee Strobel’s The Case for a Creator, Paul Doland comments on the general direction of the book before analyzing Strobel’s interviews with his various experts on specific topics. Topics […]
Testimonials Avellone
Confessions of an Evangelical Atheist (2008) Amanda Avellone What I Believed My Christian Experience Unbinding My Mind The Day I Saw Gray God’s Will and the Power of Prayer And Man Created God in his Own Image… The Word of God? Show Me a Sign The Agnostic Limbo My Conversion What I Believe […]
Theism
Theism Arguments for the Existence of a God Christianity Hinduism Islam Judaism Mormonism Psychology of Religion Oil and Water: Abrahamic Monotheism vs. the Buddha’s Dharma (2001) (Off Site) by Gan Uesli Starling A Buddhist philosopher responds to the often heard claim of persons being both Buddhist and theist, presenting five striking points of divergence between Buddhism’s […]
Theism Christianity Errancy
Biblical Errancy The Argument from the Bible (1996) by Theodore Drange Almost all evangelical Christians believe that the writing of the Bible was divinely inspired. They also believe that the Bible contains special features which constitute evidence of its divine inspiration. This would be a use of the Bible to prove God’s existence within natural […]
Theism Design
Argument to Design According to the argument from design, or teleological argument, the design or order found in the universe provides evidence for the existence of an intelligent designer (or orderer) usually identified as God. A classic version of this argument appears in William Paley’s 1802 Natural Theology, where Paley compares the complexity of living […]
Theism Mormonism
Mormonism Book of Abraham Book of Mormon Joseph Smith Blacks Receive LDS Priesthood (1978) (Off Site) by Jerald and Sandra Tanner (Evangelical Christians) “Since we have probably printed more material critical of the Mormon antiblack doctrine than any other publisher, the new revelation comes as a great victory and a vindication of our work.” The […]
Todd Pence Scout
Not Practicing What You Preach The Boy Scouts of America’s Refusal to Recognize Atheism (1993) Todd M. Pence The Boy Scouts of America is an organization that was established to better the quality of life in America through having its members perform service for their respective communities and the nation as a whole, as […]
Anachronist Why I Believe
Commentary on D. James Kennedy’s book Why I Believe “Anachronist” D. James Kennedy is the founder of Coral Ridge Ministries in Florida. A television show exists by the same name, although I have not seen it. Dr. Kennedy is an evangelical Christian who has written several books, including Evangelism Explosion and Why I Believe. […]
Bill Schultz O Hair A
O’Hair vs. Huxley – Appendix A The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia – Agnosticism ***The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Gutenberg Encyclopedia*** !!!Remember. . .the information contained herein is OLD. . .!!! *!!!It reflects the mindset of the turn of the last century!!!* **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **Etexts Readable By Both […]
Charles Echelbarger Hume Atheism
Hume’s Tacit Atheism (1975) Charles Echelbarger This article was originally published in Religious Studies, Vol. 2 (1975), pp. 19-35. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. For more information, see Cambridge Journals Online. 1. INTRODUCTION A recent paper, ‘Hume’s Immanent God’, (in (1)* by George Nathan, contains an insightful interpretation of Hume’s Dialogues Concerning […]
Dan Barker Barker Horner
“Did Jesus Really Rise From The Dead?” Debate between Michael Horner and Dan Barker. This debate transcript is copyrighted. © Copyright 1996 by Dan Barker and Michael Horner. All rights reserved. Please do not make copies of this transcript for distribution in any form without permission from the copyright owners. The debate was transcribed by […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Carbon 14 Accurately Measure
Dr. Hovind (R5): The C-14 cannot be accurately measured. It makes up less than one part per million in the atmosphere, and claiming to be able to measure accurately to 7 decimal places is not reasonable. This is similar to an argument put out by Harold Slusher (1981, p.45). Dr. Hovind adds the bizarre […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Specific Arguments Comets
Young-earth "proof" #3: The existence of short-period comets means that the universe is less than 10,000 years old. Comets and meteoroids only last from 10,000-15,000 years before they are blown apart by the solar wind. In his debate with Dr. Hilpman, Dr. Hovind stated that comets lasted 10,000-15,000 years before being blown apart by the […]
Dave Matson Young Earth Specific Arguments Population Growth
Young-earth "proof" #25: The current population of Earth (5.5 billion) could easily be generated from 8 people in less than 4000 years. If the earth were really billions of years old, the human population would have gone through the roof! 25. Yes, and by the same reasoning 8 germs could populate every cubic inch of […]
Dean Stretton Oconnor
Book Review: David O’Connor, God and Inscrutable Evil: In Defense of Theism and Atheism, Lanham/London, Rowman & Littlefield, 1998, pp. xiii + 273, $28.95 paper, $78.50 cloth. (To purchase the book, click on the image of the book cover to the right.) “There is a great deal of evil in the world, much of […]
Debates Secularist Adaptation
On The Evolutionary Adaptation of Religious Belief: Does religious belief have survival value? Was it naturally selected for in the environment of our ancestors or is it an example of cultural selection? Some people claim that if religion were completely maladaptive and useless, it never would have stuck around so long and became a dominant […]
Debates Secularist Guns
On The Issue of Gun Control: The subject of Gun Control captures the interest of many Americans, not to mention other people living in our global community.. The diversity of laws, or the lack of law enforcement in the United States, surrounding the issues of gun control are being questioned by government and the public, […]
Debates Secularist Space
On The Subject of Space Exploration: Space exploration is affording us a window into the universe. Governments are spending a lot of money on the research and construction of space vehicles and instruments. Some people argue that the money is wasted and we should concentrate more on the problems in our societies like hunger and […]
Edwin Wilson Manifesto Ch17
CHAPTER 17 Twenty Years Later: Symposium-Parts I and II While the first manifesto was never revised, debate over the need for revision or for a new document continued. So much so, that twenty years later, a symposium was published containing the views of the twenty-seven surviving signers (John Dewey, Bernard Fantus, William Floyd, Maynard […]
Farrell Till Geisler Till Till3
I’ll use this time to refer to some things that I didn’t have the oppurtunity to refer to during the regular speeches. Dr. Geisler made the statement that the pagans saviors were not like Jesus because they did not experience bodily resurrection. But I want to assure you, my friends, that that is not so. […]
Farrell Till Index Twilight
Articles: Journeys to the Twilight Zone "Journeys to the Twilight Zone" was the name of a regular column authored by Farrell Till for The Secular Humanist Bulletin from 1995?-1997. Given that some articles refer to the previous article, articles are listed in chronological order. Pioneers of Loophole Religion (1995/1996) (Off Site) Even in the heyday […]
Features 2000 Au2
Christian Coalition Grills Judicial Candidates The Idaho Christian Coalition’s religiously based survey of judicial candidates is an "outrageous stunt that smacks of the Inquisition," according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The Coalition, the state affiliate of TV preacher Pat Robertson’s political group, has distributed a 31-question survey that asks candidates for […]