I did something I haven’t done in a while this week– I looked at an argument from a creationist line by line. When we started out, I said I wanted to get the “who created god?” question out of the way at the outset.   This Facebook comment from regular listener Cheryl give me a […]

Pathfinders Project, a year-long service commitment with a Humanist bent, has 3 days left in their fundraising campaign…

Really.

Due to concert and some extra production stuff. This weeks episode will be a little delayed.

Shelley Segal will be playing at Doyle’s Public House this weekend, Sunday April 14th.  We’ll be meeting up at 5:00 PM, there’s no cover now, and it’s a 21+ show.   Be there for good music and good times! Weren’t we somewhere else? Yes. Guess why its not there anymore!

Maybe it’s time we just came out and talked about it. Ask an Atheist is a pretty geeky show– we wouldn’t be very good at hiding it, even if we tried. Which, frankly, we’re not. That doesn’t mean that the geekery is front and center, there are many other, better places to get that sort of thing, but it is a thing we do.

So, the 2013 listener poll has been over for a couple weeks, and I’ve finished doing what processing of the data we felt necessary– basically removing duplicate entries based on checksums and timestamps.

There was a lot of questions and discussion on the questions, as we expected, so I’ve decided to go over each question, where our thought stand on then, and answer some questions asked in the discussion session.

This message came in this morning from the NFA website: Speakers and Registrants: It is with regret that we announce the cancellation of the Northwest Free-thought Alliance Conference scheduled for April 5, 6, and 7 at Portland State University. We are not sure why we didn’t obtain the minimum number of registrations; we’ll be trying […]

… or … “At least he made the oil wells run on time!”

Sam explains why he felt it necessary to discuss Venezuelan politics within the context of skepticism.

We’ve often said on the show that we’ve never heard a good non-secular argument against marriage equality, and we’ve often challenged our listeners to let us know when they find one.

Bill brings up a doozy from Dennis Prager.