Stuart anticipates and challenges three possible responses to his critique of the atheistic argument from the absence of evidence for God’s existence.

Stuart examines an argument for atheism from the lack of evidence for God’s existence.

The EPS blog has posted an interview with Jim Spiegel about his new book, The Making of An Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief , where he seeks to offer an explanatory account of the origins of atheistic belief.

Was it arrogant or wrong for journalist Brit Hume to invite Tiger Woods to accept Christianity?

Stuart offers some thoughts on the proposed “Atheist” bus advertisements coming to New Zealand in March.

As early as Epicurus, there have been attempts to debunk the supernatural, but it was not until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with Hume, Feuerbach, Russell, Sartre and others, that more intellectually sophisticated arguments for atheism entered the marketplace of ideas. Since the early twenty-first century, however, a new pattern of atheism has emerged. Departing from their skeptical forebears, the New Atheists espouse a dogma that differs in both tone and content. They denounce not just belief in God but respect for belief in God. Religion is said to be …

Stuart examines different criteria for assessing what a cult is and whether the Destiny Church qualifies.

There is an objection to the moral argument for God’s existence, specifically the premise which states the best explanation for the foundation for objective moral values and duties is God. It is the idea that moral values and duties can be plausibly anchored in some transcendent, non-theistic ground. That moral values and duties exist objectively, but as brute facts, not needing an explanation for their existence. They are sort of eternal unchanging ideas that are necessary features of the universe. This position we shall call Atheistic Moral Platonism, and there are three ways we could respond.

Stuart sets out definitions for the terms ‘objective’ and ’subjective’, in the context of ethical theory.

A brief analysis of Simon’s given reasons for abandoning Christianity.