Universe not fine-tuned for life

If "God" had wanted to maximise the chance of the Universe producing life he would have made the cosmological constant slightly negative, not positive as in fact it is.

Evidence Emerges That Laws of Physics Are Not Fine-Tuned For Life.

Fools and their Follies

Those who advocate a piece of folly like the theory of an "intelligent creator" should be held accountable for their folly, they have no right to be offended for being called fools until they establish they are not in fact fools. ~ S T Joshi, author of "Atheism: A Reader". 

Confrontation all the way . .

A taster from PZ's brillant address at the Secular Humanist Conference:- 

"It's all about the truth, people. And all the evidence is crystal clear right now: the earth is far older than 6,000 years. Evolution is a real, and it is a process built on raw chance driven by the brutal engines of selection, and there is no sign of a loving, personal god, but only billions of years of pitiless winnowing without any direction other than short-term survival and reproduction. It's not pretty, it's not consoling, it doesn't sanctify virginity, or tell you that god really loves your foreskin, but it's got one soaring virtue that trumps all the others: it's true."

Intelligent Design is an oxymoron

Excellent critique by Michael Ruse in the Guardian of Stephen Fuller's lengthy defence of intelligent design theory "Is intelligent design bad theology".

"It is not a question of being an atheist or not. In the nineteenth century, even those who thought that there could be no natural explanation of organic origins realized that the appeal to divine intervention takes one out of science."