It was an honor today to have the Richard Dawkins Foundation promote the ReThink Prize on their website and via Twitter.

Sees the announcement on the Richard Dawkins Foundation Website

 See the Tweet

An excerpt from our book has been posted on Hemant Mehta’s blog, the Friendly Atheist. You can read the excerpt here.

In the excerpt we discuss a thought experiment for how we might make decisions when there’s no direct evidence to help guide our decisions. In the book we then go on further to make a parallel between the scenario described and questions we might face when contemplating the nature of God.

The post lead to some lively discussion on the blog – 149 comments so far and counting. So great to see readers engaging with the content of the book.

Hemant Mehta is the editor of Friendly Atheist, appears on the Atheist Voice channel on YouTube, and co-hosts the uniquely-named Friendly Atheist Podcast. You can read much more about him here.

Latest data from Barna Group on the rise of secularism in the US.

See the full article here

http://www.religionnews.com/2014/10/24/secularism-is-on-the-rise-as-more-u-s-christians-turn-churchless/

John will be speaking at the Atheist Community of Silicon Valley about Chapter 8 of the book which deals with the question of objective morality and if it exists or not. Lots of comments on the topic already. Should be an interesting discussion.  See event details here.

Jonathan Figdor Presents: Objective Morality is a Myth

Wednesday, Oct 15, 2014, 7:00 PM

Harry’s Hofbrau
390 Saratoga Avenue San Jose, CA

84 Fellow Atheists Went

Imagine a young man, let’s call him Paul, living in Paris in the early days of the Nazi occupation in WWII. He lives, serving as caregiver to his ailing mother with Parkinson’s disease. While she is entirely dependent on him, he loves his mother very much and is happy to care for her, just as she did for him as a child. But every day, Paul wakes up…

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