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02/07/2014 Michael Nugent

How an atheist blogger converted to Catholicism – Michael Nugent talks to Leah Libresco

Michael Nugent had a discussion this week with Leah Libresco, who in 2012 converted from being an atheist blogger at Unequally Yoked to being a Roman Catholic. They discussed Leah's atheism, her conversion and her Catholicism. Here’s the video, in three parts.

02/12/2011 Michael Nugent

Setting Prometheus Free: a lecture by AC Grayling for Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland is hosting a series of occasional lectures by prominent atheists. Here is the first one, with Professor AC Grayling, speaking last month in Dublin.

18/09/2010 Grania

Gorillas, Girls, and Specious Nonsense by Derek Walsh

[caption id="attachment_739" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Gorillas and girls"][/caption] Derek Walsh reviews the launch of the anti-evolution book that Ireland's Minister for Science had planned to formally launch. I arrived a little late at the book launch of The Origin of Specious Nonsense to find the author John J. May, already in ...

One cannot be truly moral without God

Michael Nugent debates "This house believes that one cannot be truly moral without God". Christian Union and Maynooth LnD will host a debate on "This house believes that one cannot be truly moral without God" as a part of part of our Christianity Week on the Maynooth campus. Michael Nugent ...

Why I am Not a Humanist

The following is a critique of the basic postulates of humanistic philosophy: it may, in effect, be taken as a concise rebuttal of what humanism stands for, delivered, perhaps unusually, by a secularist and an atheist. My drive to do so has largely been fuelled by the fact that there ...