Many of these can be found on Teh Juggernauts Blog, to which I contribute regularly.

Various Academic Works by Me

Why We Must Oppose Intelligent Design

Morality and Atheism

The Evidences of Evolution

Free Will vs. Determinism

Can We Choose to Believe?

Pascal's Wager (or "Why You Should Stop Wearing Pants")

A Refutation of Prophesy

Science is NOT faith

Guest Columns and Letters to the Editor

Guns on Campus will be Counterproductive

There is no "True" Christianity

Letter to Religious Moderates

Response to Andrew Simpson

Thermodynamics Do Not Preclude Evolution
1. Responses to this letter.

In the Media (Video)

Open Forum on Faith 2007

Church of the FSM at MSU Turning Heads

The "Fuck" Protest

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The Skeptics Annotated Bible

Talk Origins

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character of all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." ~ Richard Dawkins

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." ~ Samuel Johnson

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." ~ Benjamin Franklin

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes an act of rebellion." ~George Orwell

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad." ~ Fredrick Nietzsche

"The time has come for people of reason to say enough is enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought - it's divisive and dangerous." ~ Richard Dawkins

"You want to have things both ways: your faith is reasonable but not in the least bound by reason; it is a matter of utter certainty, yet leavened by humility and doubt; you are still searching for the truth, but your belief in God is immune to any conceivable challenge from the world of evidence. I trust you will ascribe these antinomies to the paradox of faith; but, to my eye, they remain mere contradictions, dressed up in velvet." ~ Sam Harris

"The facts of the universe are not necessarily what we want them to be. But if we don't like them, we can change them: if life would suck without a moral society, then we already have a more than adequate reason to promote and preserve morality by every successful means we can invent, including the exclusion from society of those who are dangerously uncompassionate or dishonest. That is inherently reasonable. No appeal to God is necessary. Such a moral society won't be perfect, but nothing ever is. We can only make the world a better place, not a utopian one." ~ Richard Carrier

"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." ~ Winston Churchill

"What 'twas weak to do Tis weaker to lament, once being done." ~Percy Shelley

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." ~ Stephen Roberts

"I have always made one prayer to God, a very short one. Here it is: "My God, make our enemies very ridiculous!" God has granted it to me." - Voltaire

"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." ~ Voltaire

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself." ~ Mark Twain

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." ~ Thomas Carlyle

"The most pitiful example: the corruption of Pascal, who believed in the corruption of his reason through original sin when it had in fact been corrupted only by his Christianity." ~ Fredrick Nietzche

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." ~ Albert Einstein

"Why do you write to me "God should punish the English"? I have no close connection to either one or the other. I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him."  ~ Albert Einstein

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion."  ~ Robert M. Pirsig

"We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake."  ~ Catherine Fahringer

"What was it that Adam ate that he wasn't supposed to eat? It wasn't just an apple. It was the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. The subtle message? 'Get smart and I'll fuck you over' sayeth the Lord. God is the smartest, and he doesn't want any Competition. Is this not an absolutely anti-intellectual religion?"  ~ Frank Zappa

"Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat."  ~ Emile Zola

"Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices."  ~ Bertrand Russel

"It is true that he modern Christian is less robust, but that is not thanks to Christianity; it is thanks to the generations of freethinkers, who, from the Renaissance to the present day, have made Christians ashamed of many of their traditional beliefs."  ~ Bertrand Russel

"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them."  ~ Mark Twain

"Blasphemy? No, it is not blasphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if He is as little as that, He is beneath it."  ~ Mark Twain

"During many ages there were witches. The Bible said so. The Bible commanded that they should not be allowed to live. Therefore the Church, after doing its duty in but a lazy and indolent way for 800 years, gathered up its halters, thumbscrews, and firebrands, and set about its holy work in earnest. She worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One does not know whether to laugh or to cry."  ~ Mark Twain

"There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one-- the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession-- at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all."  ~ Mark Twain