Atheists

religious intelligence — A couple of days ago the UK’s Independent, and several other media outlets, have promoted this claim … Religious people are, on average, less intelligent than atheists, researchers claim. To be clear, this posting is not simply a dig at the Independent. Other outlets ran with the same story. The […]

Debunking: the non-religious are smarter than the religious

This entry was posted in Atheists People psychology religion science Skepticism society and tagged Atheists belief debunking intelligence non-belief on February 1, 2018 by Dave

atheists — Back in 2007 PewResearch did a comprehensive Religious landscape survey. That was then updated with a repeat poll in 2014. You can find all the online results here. There you can drill down into the specific details for any demographic. As a quick summary, here are the overall results … […]

Apparently only 92% of Atheists are Atheists

This entry was posted in atheism People politics poll society and tagged Atheists pew research poll religious landscape on August 31, 2017 by Dave

There is a recent study that claims that their results reveal that the non-religious are more close-minded than the religious. This perhaps merits a quick peek to see what is going on here. Having been a religious person who grew into a non-religious person I have the distinct benefit of seeing […]

Study Claims Atheists are more close-minded than religious people

This entry was posted in atheism People religion science Skepticism society and tagged atheism Atheists closed-minded Cognitive rigidity Dogmatism Intolerance of contradiction religion study on July 20, 2017 by Dave

I was writing a couple of days about about the meaning of life, and pointed you at an article written by Tom Chivers that was a result of him asking atheists how they found meaning in life. Tom has another great article that is now up and in this one he asks […]

Suffering at the hands of the highly religious

This entry was posted in atheism People religion society and tagged Atheists belief intolerance tolerance on September 17, 2015 by Dave

Ken Ham is … well, if you know who he actually is then the very invocation of his name will inspire many, both believers and also non-believers, to roll their eyes. If you do not know who he is then here is a quick summary – He runs a group […]

The weird pronouncements of Ken Ham

This entry was posted in Humor kooks nutters People religion and tagged 9/11 Answers In Genesis Atheists Creationism Ken Ham on July 15, 2015 by Dave

Si Robertson, one of the stars of the US Duck Dynasty show has rock solid proof that atheists do not actually exist at all. The context within which this claim emerges is that there is a new movie being promoted, “Faith of Our fathers”, and while being interviewed (see clip below) at […]

Duck Dynasty star quacks out more nonsense

This entry was posted in atheism Critical Thinking People and tagged Atheists atheists in foxholes calendars gods Si Robertson on July 9, 2015 by Dave