Film Claims We Need Illusions to Live

In the film Magic in the Moonlight (Woody Allen, 2014), a skeptical magician named Stanley Crawford meets Sophie Baker, an alleged spiritualist. Stanley ...

Magazine Claims We Know Miracles Don't Happen

In a 2013 article in The New Yorker about faith and belief, Adam Gopnik made the following confident statement: "We know … that in the billions ...

Scientist Guesses Jesus Walked on Patch of Ice

Did Jesus really walk on water? Or maybe he just surfed on a patch of ice. That's the conclusion of a 2006 scientific article published in everyone's ...

Comedian Louis C.K. Says Atheism Is Illogical

On an episode of Saturday Night Live, the comedian Louis C.K. shared his beliefs about the impossibility of atheism:

I'm not religious. I don't know if ...

Supreme Court Justice Scalia Talks about the Devil

In an interview with New York magazine, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia explained his beliefs about the reality of the Devil. After mentioning his ...

Famous Astronomer Who Accepted Christ

The astronomer Allan Sandage was hailed as "the most influential astronomer" of the 20th century. For six decades, Dr. Sandage played a key ...

Atheist Wonders if the Resurrection Is True

Alister McGrath, a former atheist who has become a believer in Christ, a theologian and a scientist, tells the following story about the first time he ...

Scientist Proclaims Humanity's Irrelevance

Lawrence M. Krauss, an atheistic physicist and cosmologist and the author of A Universe From Nothing, has become popular for his colorful atheistic views. ...

Good News and Bad News Stats for Atheists

The following statistics reveal some good news and bad news for atheists. First, here are the good news stats for atheists:

• A 2012 poll suggests that 1 in 20 (or 5 percent) of Americans identify themselves as atheists. (The participants were asked to identify themselves as either "a religious person, a nonreligious person, or a convinced atheist.") That's a fivefold increase from the last time the survey was taken in 2005.

Atheists Can't Live Consistently with Their "Faith"

The Christian philosopher William Lane Craig argues that if God does not exist, there is no basis for objective right and wrong. All things are permitted. ...