Daily Archives: January 6, 2015

Read, Write and Comment

by | January 6, 2015

The Site Stats indicate that today is going to be a great day for Canadian Atheist.  At 11:00 EST, there were 238 total views of posts on our blog. I say “our blog” because Canadian Atheist belongs to all of us: readers, writers and commenters. Many readers comment and some commenters are CA writers. Since… Read more »

Humanist Perspectives

by | January 6, 2015

It is time to reintroduce Humanist Perspectives and Richard Young, the editor of the Winter 2014-15 edition: Humanist Perspectives seeks to promote the idea that human problems can best be solved by human beings, by relying on our intellectual, moral and social capabilities, free from notions of supernatural purpose or design, and affirming that human life… Read more »

Science increasing makes the case

by | January 6, 2015

… apparently for Dionysus. All hail the God of religious whine…er… wine. Theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss wrote a withering response to a Wall Street Journal article arguing that “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God,” but the Journal refused to publish it — so Richard Dawkins did instead. Yeah, this ends exactly the way you… Read more »

The Gods Are Atheist

by | January 6, 2015

When I was a child I liked to browse the bookshelves in the family home. I knew that many of the books were “for adults”, meaning that they were likely to be prolix, pointlessly obscure, and perversely devoid of any discussion of dinosaurs, spaceships, minotaurs, swordfights and other interesting things, but I still enjoyed reading… Read more »