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Friday, March 29, 2024

Jim Downard

Jim Downard is a Spokane native (with a sojourn in Southern California back in the early 1960s) who was raised in a secular family, so says had no personal faith to lose. He's always been a history and science buff (getting a bachelor's in the former area at what was then Eastern Washington University in the early 1970s).

Ask an Atheist: Why do we die?

Even with modern medicine to supply a few repair parts for some breakdowns, too much of the internal plumbing isn't amenable to that. 

Charlottesville and a Dread Déjà Vu

Jim Downard remembers H. G. Well's warnings from 1935. Will we choose decency and dignity, or a bleak, hate-filled future?

Ask an atheist: How do you feel about atheists offering invocations?

Jim Downard offers his own script for what an atheist might say as an invocation, something fair and honest that doesn't make "presumptions on the religious convictions of those assembled."

Ask an Atheist: Resolving the beginning of the universe

Is there any good reason to think any particular god, currently worshiped or not, explains the data stream at all, let alone better than a naturalistic framework?

An analysis of Robert Nelson’s “proof” of god

What is it about some religious believers who are not content merely to faithfully profess their assorted beliefs, but insist on jumping the shark by arguing that those beliefs are somehow provable in a way no one but a recalcitrant blockhead could deny?

Ask An Atheist: What will happen when I die?

If this life is what we get, then it highlights why we have to make the most of what we do while not dead.

Ask An Atheist: What would you say to God after not believing in him your whole life?

Do many people believe that their God personally convivs with them in the afterlife, like a hangout buddy?

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