I don’t think any of us will be surprised, but a new study finds that atheists are every bit as ethical as the religious and maybe even moreso.  Dr. Marc Hauser of Harvard University, one of the authors of the study, says that they originally set out to find out more about religion and morality.  [...]

As anyone who has spent any time debating religion probably knows, there are people out there who insist that atheism has to be an outright denial of the existence of god(s) and anyone who doesn’t outrightly deny that these god(s) exist must be an agnostic.  They say that because we cannot absolutely prove or disprove [...]

In one of the recent Atheist Experience shows, they had a caller who claimed to be both a theist and an atheist.  Russell wrote a very detailed and thoughtful article on the AE Blog where he disagreed with Matt Dillahunty’s claim that you cannot possibly hold both of those beliefs because they are mutually-contradictory.  I’ve [...]

There’s been a long-running series of threads over on PZ Myers’ blog Pharyngula about the compromisers, atheists who think we should just live and let live and not criticize theism because, of course, we expect them to stop criticizing us.  First off, we know they never will and secondly, reality isn’t up for a vote.  [...]