NOTHING HAPPENED AT THE BEGINNING

Featuring: Peter Atkins

Did the Universe have a beginning without a cause as Peter Atkins imagines?

THE ONLY WATCHMAKER IS PHYSICS

Featuring: Richard Dawkins

Is physics the maker of the Universe and itself?

IF THERE WAS A DESIGNER, HE DID A POOR JOB

Featuring: Kai Nielsen

Is there evidence of design in and of the Universe? What does basic physics show us?

SO MANY UNIVERSES!

Featuring: Victor Stenger

For one Universe to be like ours by chance, there must be an almost infinite number. Are there?

NATURE IS JUST LIKE A PERSON

Featuring: Peter Atkins and others

Many scientists personify nature in extreme ways. Is this just a literary tool or evidence of design?

BABIES ARE NOT PERSONS

Featuring: Peter Singer

Does "personhood" depend upon capabilities? Are new-born babies really not people?

SCIENTISM SAYS "NO LIVES MATTER"

Featuring: Alex Rosenberg

Does physics' silence on value and morality mean they don't actually exist? Do no lives matter?

GOD ISN'T REQUIRED FOR MORALITY TO EXIST

Featuring: Paul Kurtz

If morality can exist without God, what kind of morality is that?

SELFISHNESS IS A VIRTUE

Featuring: Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand's negative reaction to communism makes sense. However, is selfishness really a virtue?

EINSTEIN IS ONE OF US!

Featuring: Victor Stenger

Many atheists claim Albert Einstein to be among their numbers. Was he?

MEL GIBSON IS A HAM ACTOR

Featuring: Christopher Hitchens

Do insults directed at famous actors have a bearing on the existence of God?

ATHEISM IS NOT A WORLDVIEW

Featuring: Sam Harris

Sam Harris claims atheism is not a worldview. Is he using the same definition of worldview?.

I DECLARE WAR ON GOD!

Featuring: Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins is on the warpath against God. Does this make sense?

PEOPLE CREATED GOD

Featuring: Paul Kurtz

Are people who believe in God merely following in the path of ancient superstitious peoples?

PAIN DISPROVES GOD

Featuring: Victor Stenger

Do extreme pain and suffering in the world disprove God? Could a good God have a good reason for it?

THE SCIENCE CLUB KNOWS

Featuring: Richard Dawkins

Are scientists the authority on the existence of God?

BELIEF IN GOD SHOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE...

Featuring: Kai Nielsen

Is belief in God impossible for a person tolerably educated in philosophy and science?

THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON THEISTS

Featuring: various sources

Who should bear the burden of proving God's existence or non-existence?

I HAVE FAITH IN SCIENCE

Featuring: Alex Rosenberg

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THE GOSPELS ARE UNRELIABLE

Featuring: Christopher Hitchens

Were the gospel accounts of Jesus' life fiction, historical novels or fact? 

JESUS' MORALITY IS TOO MORAL!

Featuring: Christopher Hitchens

Is the bar of Jesus' morality too high as Christopher Hitchens claimed?

JESUS MAY NOT HAVE EXISTED

Featuring: Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell claimed that Jesus of Nazareth may not have existed. Really?

RELIGION IS CAUSED BY ERRANT GENES

Featuring: Alex Rosenberg and others

If we are the product of evolution, then it must have messed up in selecting for religion - right? (Wrong?) 

RELIGION IS THE BIGGEST CAUSE OF WAR

Featuring: Sam Harris

Is religion really the biggest cause of war? History shows the answer is no.

RELIGION DESERVES TO DIE

Featuring: David Silverman

David Silverman hates religion - all religion. Does his contempt make sense?