Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism

The New Atheism

In what may be his best book to date, Victor Stenger (Professor Emeritus of Physics) provides a much needed summary, elaboration, and defense of the main theses of the so-called “New Atheists” (NAs), known for their widely-publicized, unrelenting, and passionate critiques of theism and religion in general. Among these NAs, Stenger includes authors of recent bestsellers in the United States: Sam...

The Presumption Of Atheism

We have already stated summarily what the punishment should be for temple-robbing, whether by open force or secretly. But the punishments for the various sorts of insolence in speech or action with regard to the gods, which a man can show in word or deed, have to be proclaimed after we have provided an exordium. Let this be it: "No one believing, as the laws prescribe, in the existence of the g...

The Cambridge Companion to ATHEISM

The scientific study of atheism

An Algorithmic Challenge to Atheism

There is a famous maxim in science known as Occam's Razor. Put simply, the axiom states that when considering competing theories to explain a phenomenon, one should choose the theory that is simplest with the fewest assumptions. And by implication, if evidence does not exist to substantiate a claim beyond a reasonable doubt, a negative conclusion should be drawn. This maxim is often evoked when...