Following Jesus: is Faith Reasonable and Rational?
Faith, Belief and Thinking Straight
Well, we convince ourselves that it’s because we have found the truth of the matter in question. But is this itself actually true? Are we in fact interested in Truth...
In a recent study conducted by Stephen Fleming et al (1), and funded by the Wellcome Trust (which was the only non-government sponsor of the Human Genome Project), it...
Or, for this episode, what we should learn from history but don’t! As an atheist I was always proud to point to science as a transcendental reason for my enlightenment...
Miracles are impossible! As an atheist, I could not understand how anyone could believe in the miracles of the Bible. One of the most famous philosophers of the last few...
As an atheist (and a big fan of Dawkins) I often mocked my Christian friends and family for needing to have faith to overcome the clear lack of EVIDENCE for the existence...
I became an atheist at least partly because of my experiences with “Christians”. Sure, their failure to be able to answer the most obvious (to me at least)...
As an atheist I enjoyed testing the belief of my Christian friends and family by asking them if they knew where their Bible comes from (often they didn’t), and then...
As an atheist, this was one of the easiest arguments to have with a Christian: How can God exist with so much evil and suffering in the world? Stated in a logical...
As an atheist I enjoyed testing the Biblical knowledge of my Christian friends and family, because they usually failed dismally! Having proved my point, I liked to...
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Study Guide
Well, what does the evidence show?
As an atheist, one of my most firmly held beliefs was in the natural goodness of people, even if it was only a consequence of a materialistic evolutionary process.
It usually goes without saying that, in most of us at least, resides a fundamental belief in what it means to be – and to do – good, and that our natural instinct and tendency lies in that direction. After all, if you look at any civilised society, from an individual to an institutional level we see …
