UPCOMING EVENTS
June 17, Monday, 7:15p
How the Principle of Sufficient Reason Supports Atheism
Paul Saka, Prof. of Philosophy (University of Texas, Pan Am)
Rm. 442 in the BU Photonics Center
Free and open to the public
PAST EVENTS
2013
Jun Contradictions in the Mormon Concept of God
Apr The Moral Autonomy and Epistemic Distance Disproofs of God
Mar Darwin's Argument against God from Animal Pain
Eric Kraemer, Prof. of Philosophy (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse)
Feb Animals that Shouldn't Exist, According to Intelligent Design
Abby Hafer, Prof. of Anatomy and Physiology (Curry College, MA)
Jan Disproving God from the Logical Simplicity of Actions
2012
Dec Arguments against Christ and God from Insufficient Evidence
Matt McCormick, Prof. of Philosophy (California State U., Sacramento)
Nov H. L. Mencken on God and Religion
Oct A Disproof of a God Who Created Nature
Gilbert Fulmer, Prof. of Philosophy (Texas State University, San Marcos)
Sep Thoughts on the Cantorian Disproof of an Omniscient God
Lev B. Levitin, Distinguished Prof. of Engineering Science (Boston U.)
Aug A Critique of Spitzer's New Proofs for the Existence of God
Jul A Critique of Plantinga's Where the Conflict Really Lies
Tyler Wunder, Prof. of Philosophy (Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario)
Jun Disproofaphobia and the Justification of Disproof Atheism
May Propositional Disproofs of an Omniscient God
Apr A Meta-Argument against God from the Arguments for God
Robert Lovering, Prof. of Philosophy (CUNY)
Mar Abraham, Job, and Jesus: The Bible’s Attack on Reason
Feb A Critique of Plantinga’s ‘Darwin’s Doubt’ Argument
Tyler Wunder, Prof. of Philosophy (Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario)
Jan A Disproof of God from the Turing Test
2011
Dec A Disproof of God from the Existence of Contingent Things
Nicholas Everitt, Sen. Lecturer in Philosophy (U. of East Anglia, England)
Nov The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
Victor Stenger, Prof. Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy (U. of Hawaii)
Oct Original Sin: Can’t Live with It, Can’t Live Without It
Richard Schoenig, Prof. of Philosophy (San Antonio College)
Sep Arguments against God from Thermodynamics
Larry Ford, Prof. of Physics (Tufts University, MA)
Aug Disproofs of a God Who Answers Prayers
Jul Existentialist Perspectives on Atheism
Jun The Incoherence of Omnipotence and Omnibenevolence
Joel Thomas Tierno, Prof. of Philosophy (College of Southern Nevada)
May Spatio-Temporal Disproofs of God
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Apr Objectivist Perspectives on Atheism
Mar Disproofs of God from Divine Simplicity
Feb Biology & Intelligent Design: They Speak Different Languages
Abby Hafer, Prof. of Anatomy and Physiology (Curry College, MA)
Jan Skeptical Theism Leads to Moral Paralysis
Scott Sehon, Prof. of Philosophy (Bowdoin College, ME)
2010
Dec Atheism and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Nov Evil and the Ontological Disproof of God
Carl Brownson, Adjunct Prof. of Philosophy (Lehman College, NY)
Oct Disproofs of an Omnipotent God
Sep Arguments against God from Moral and Epistemic Evil
Joel Thomas Tierno, Prof. of Philosophy (College of Southern Nevada)
Aug Who Says You Can’t Disprove God?
Jul Film: “A Rough History of Disbelief: Hume and D’Holbach”
Jun DISPROOF ATHEISM CONFERENCE
Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
Speaker: Victor Stenger, Prof. Emeritus of Physics & Astronomy (U. of Hawaii)
Responder: Larry Ford, Prof. of Physics (Tufts University, MA)
An Argument from God’s Alleged Responses to Prayer
Speaker: Christine Overall, Prof. of Philosophy (Queen’s University, Ontario)
Responder: Ricki Monnier, PhD, co-editor The Improbability of God & The
Impossibility of God
The Incoherence of an Omniscient Agent
Speaker: Tomis Kapitan, Prof. of Philosophy (Northern Illinois University)
Responder: Lev B. Levitin, Distinguished Prof. of Engineering Sci. (Boston U.)From Morality to Atheism
Speaker: Stephen Maitzen, Prof. of Philosophy (Acadia U., Nova Scotia)
Responder: Robert Lovering, Prof. of Philosophy (CUNY)
May Disproofs of a God Beyond Human Understanding
Apr Bertrand Russell’s Arguments against the Existence of God
David Blitz, Prof. of Philosophy (Central Connecticut State University)
Mar Disproofs of a Finite God
Feb A Critique of Thomas Paine’s Deism in Age of Reason
Jan Atheist Implications of Multiple Realities in Modern Physics
Larry Ford, Prof. of Physics (Tufts University, MA)
2009
Dec Theories of Religion: Strengthening the Case against God
Nov UnIntelligent Design
Abby Hafer, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology (Curry College, MA)
Oct Divine Hiddenness and Belief de re
Ben Cordry, Prof. of Philosophy (Lorain County Community College, OH)
Sep A Disproof of God from Fitch’s Paradox of Knowability
Ricki Monnier,PhD, co-editorThe Improbability ofGod &The Impossibility ofGod
Aug A Critique of Geoffrey Berg’s The Six Ways of Atheism
Jul Disproofs of a Maximal Consistent God
Jun Arguments from Mind-Brain Dependence & Unanswered Disproofs
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
May Brecht’s Critique of Religion in The Life of Galileo
Apr Experiential Disproofs of an Omniscient God
Mar Atheism Then and Now
John Coleman, Prof. Emer. of Classics & Archaeology (Cornell U., NY)
Feb Film: “Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial”
Jan Atheism as Perfect Piety
Louise Antony, Professor of Philosophy (University of Mass., Amherst)
2008
Dec The Incoherence of Confucian Heaven and Jain Omniscience
Ricki Monnier,PhD, co-editorThe Improbability ofGod &The Impossibility ofGod
Nov A Disproof of the Biblical God from Objective Moral Truths
Oct Disproofs of God from Three Sets of Actualizable Worlds
Klaas Kraay, Prof. of Philosophy (Ryerson University, Toronto)
Sep Disproving God from the Intrinsic Imperfection of Creation
Aug Film: “The Man Who Sued God”
Jul A Critique of Graham Oppy’s Review of Atheism
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Jun A Disproof of God from the Impossibility of Moral Perfection
May How Miracles Disprove the Existence of God
Matt McCormick, Prof. of Philosophy (California State U., Sacramento)
Apr David and Solomon: An Archaeological Argument for Atheism
Mar Why I Am No Longer a Christian
Dan Barker, Co-President of the Freedom from Religion Foundation
Feb Disproofs of God from Biochemical Complexity
Jan Theodore Drange’s Arguments from Confusion & Biblical Defects
2007
Dec The Origin & Eternal Inflation of the Universe: Atheist Implications
Larry Ford, Prof. of Physics (Tufts University, MA)
Nov A Critique of David Reuden Stone’s Atheism is False
Oct Is God Possible? Disproof Atheism vs Agnosticism and Theism
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Sep An Argument for the Nonexistence of the Anselmian God
Stephen Maitzen, Prof. of Philosophy (Acadia University, Nova Scotia)
Aug Disproofs of God from the Garden of Eden Story
Jul Disproofs in Victor Stenger’s God: The Failed Hypothesis
Jun Man or Myth? More Problems in the Historicity of Jesus
May An Argument from the Involuntariness of Belief and Nonbelief
Tim Melbinger, Prof. of Music Theory & Composition (Boston University)
Apr Disproof Atheism vs Buddhist, Jewish, and Christian Atheism
Mar Ethics without God
Lev B. Levitin, Distinguished Prof. of Engineering Science (Boston U.)
Feb A Conceptual Disproof of a God Who Answers Prayers
Jan Divine Hiddenness and the Demographics of Theism
Stephen Maitzen, Prof. of Philosophy (Acadia University, Nova Scotia)
2006
Dec Disproofs of an Omniscient God (with Replies to Objections)
Nov Religion, Prayer, and Health: A Look at the Evidence
Seth Asser, MD, former Prof. of Pediatrics (U. of California, San Diego)
Oct Disproof of a God Who Existed Alone Prior to Creation
Richard Kortum, Prof. of Philosophy (East Tennessee State University)
Sep Man or Myth? Problems in the Historicity of Jesus
Aug Disproof Atheism vs Harris’s Atheism and Buddha’s Wisdom
Jul Films:“The Bible: Fact or Fiction?”&“The God Who Wasn’t There”
Jun Disproofs of God from an Unknowable Greater Good
Ricki Monnier,PhD, co-editorThe Improbability ofGod &The Impossibility ofGod
May Robert Ingersoll on Some Mistakes of Moses
Apr A Critique of Reformed Epistemology
Tyler Wunder, Instructor of Philosophy (Wilfrid Laurier U., Ontario)
Mar The Global Symmetries Argument against God’s Existence
Larry Ford, Prof. of Physics (Tufts University, MA)
Feb The Resurrection as Initially Improbable
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Jan An Unchanging God Cannot Provide Change
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Prof. of Philosophy (Dartmouth College, NH)
2005
Dec Why Miracles Are Incompatible with God’s Existence
Christine Overall, Prof. of Philosophy (Queen’s University, Ontario)
Nov The Impossibility of God in d’Holbach’s Good Sense
Oct Ideas for Disproving God from an Unknowable Greater Good
Sep The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Proves God Does Not Exist
Victor Stenger, Prof. Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy (U. of Hawaii)
Aug CD: Julia Sweeney on Bible Nuttiness and Inconsistencies
Jul A Disproof of God from the Doctrine of Epistemic Distance
Jun The Illogic of Anthropic Principle Design Arguments
Gilbert Fulmer, Prof. of Philosophy (Texas State University, San Marcos)
May Child Fatalities from Religion-motivated Medical Neglect
Seth Asser, MD, former Prof. of Pediatrics (U. of California, San Diego)
Apr The Argument from Scale against the Existence of God
Mar Pascal Boyer’s Religion Explained and Atheistic Arguments
Tim Melbinger, PhD, Lecturer in Music Theory (U. of Mass., Dartmouth)
Feb A Disproof of a God Who Freely Created the World
Jan Brecht’s Critique of the Gods in The Good Person of Setzuan
2004
Dec A Critique of Nielsen’s Review of The Impossibility of God
Nov The Privacy Disproof of God
Oct The Exodus: An Archaeological Argument for Atheism
Sep More Problems with Heaven
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Aug The Useless Knowledge Disproof of God
Tim Melbinger, PhD, Lecturer in Music Theory (U. of Mass., Dartmouth)
Jul A Critique of Kurt Gödel’s Ontological Proof of God
Ricki Monnier, PhD, co-editor of The Impossibility of God
Jun A Dialogue with Voltaire on the Existence of God
May Disproofs of a God Who Created the Universe
Apr The Role of Religion in the Genital Mutilation of Children
Ron Goldman, PhD, Exec.Director of the Circumcision Resource Center
Mar A Bayesian Argument for the Improbability of God
Lev B. Levitin, Distinguished Prof. of Engineering Science (Boston U.)
Feb A Critique of Stephen Unwin’s The Probability of God
Larry Ford, Prof. of Physics (Tufts University, MA)
Jan A Disproof of an Omnibenevolent and Perfectly Free God
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
2003
Dec The Doubt Disproof of an Omniscient God
Nov Richard R. La Croix’s Logical Argument from Evil
Ricki Monnier, PhD, co-editor of The Impossibility of God
Oct J. L. Mackie’s Logical Argument from Evil
Sep The Religious Views of Einstein and Sakharov
Aug An Anthropic Theory of Religion
Tim Melbinger, PhD, Lecturer in Music Theory (U. of Mass., Dartmouth)
Jul Knowledge, Omniscience, and Essential Indexicals
Patrick Grim, Prof. of Philosophy (Stony Brook University, NY)
Jun Divine Omniscience and Temporally Indexed Propositions
May The Time Disproof of an Omniscient and Immutable God
Apr Disproofs of a God Cut in Half
Mar A Disproof of a God Who Created the Laws of Nature
Gilbert Fulmer, Prof. of Philosophy (Texas State University, San Marcos)
Feb Darwin Day (Feb. 12) and Bruno’s Death (Feb. 17)
Jan Is a World Without God Meaningless or Absurd?
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
2002
Dec The Incoherence of Omnibenevolence
Nov The Anthropic Principle and Intelligent Design: A Critique
Lev B. Levitin, Distinguished Prof. of Engineering Science (Boston U.)
Oct The Incompatibility of Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom
Sep An Inductive Disproof of a God Who Answers Prayers
Aug The Implications of Quantum Cosmology for Atheism
Quentin Smith, Prof. of Philosophy (Western Michigan University)
Jul The Errancy Disproof of a Biblical God
Tim Melbinger, PhD, Lecturer in Music Theory (U. of Mass., Dartmouth)
Jun The Incompatible Abilities Disproof of an Omnipotent God
May Atheistic Teleological Arguments
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Apr A Critique of Quantum Mechanical Divine Action
Larry Ford, Prof. of Physics (Tufts University, MA)
Mar The Objective Morality Disproof of a Biblical God
Feb Darwin Day: A Celebration of Science and Humanity
Jan The Fear and Lust Disproofs of God
2001
Dec A Sound Logical Argument from Evil
Quentin Smith, Prof. of Philosophy (Western Michigan University)
Nov The Moral Autonomy Disproof of a Worshipworthy God
Oct An Evidential Argument from Evil for God’s Nonexistence
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Sep Why God Cannot Think
Matt McCormick, Prof. of Philosophy (California State U., Sacramento)
Aug Disproofs of God in Traditional Indian Philosophy
John Clayton, Prof. of Religion (Boston University)
Jul The Self-Knowledge Disproof of God
Jun Omnipotence, Resurrection, and Indexical Personal Identity
May Does Divine Hiddenness Justify Atheism?
J. L. Schellenberg, Prof. of Philosophy (Mount Saint Vincent U., Halifax)
Apr The Case Against Agnosticism
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Mar Quantum Cosmology and the Existence of God
Larry Ford, Prof. of Physics (Tufts University, MA)
Feb Pascal’s Wager: Weighing the Odds
Lev B. Levitin, Distinguished Prof. of Engineering Science (Boston U.)
Jan A Critique of the Anthropic Cosmological Proof of God
2000
Dec The Unfairness Disproof of God
Nov A Critique of Patrick Glynn's God: The Evidence
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Oct The Quiet Awakening: Atheism on College Campuses
Sep The Paradox of Eden
Jul A Critique of C. S. Lewis's Proofs of God
Tim Melbinger, PhD, Teaching Fellow in Music Theory (Harvard U.)
Jun The Carneadean Disproof of a Virtuous God
May Ontological Disproofs of God
Apr A Critique of Contemporary Ontological Proofs of God
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Mar A Critique of Traditional Ontological Proofs of God
Feb D'Holbach and Disproof Atheism
Jan The Being that Knew too Much
1999
Dec The Ethics of Belief
Nov The Cantorian Disproof of an Omniscient God
Oct Problems with Heaven
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)
Sep A Critique of the Kalam Cosmological Proof of God
Larry Ford, Prof. of Physics (Tufts University, MA)
Jun The Strengthened Stone Disproof of an Omnipotent God
May More Einstein and Russell on God
Mar Bertrand Russell on the Existence of God
Feb Albert Einstein's Views on God
Lev B. Levitin, Distinguished Prof. of Engineering Science (Boston U.)
Jan The Indexical "I" Disproof of an Omniscient God
1998
Nov How Unsound Logic Generates Religious Belief
Oct A Critique of William James's Justification for Belief in God
Aug The Argument against God from Widespread Nonbelief
Theodore Drange, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (West Virginia U.)
May Is There Room for Agnosticism?
Apr A Critique of William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith
Feb The Gap in Theistic Arguments
Michael Martin, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy (Boston University)