The complete collection of Frank Zindler's 4 volume work Through Atheist Eyes, now available at a special discounted price.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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Publisher: American Atheist Press
Page Count: 2264

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Did Jesus and the Twelve Disciples actually exist? Are they just literary fictions? If so, how did Jesus acquire a biography? Was Nazareth inhabited when Mary and Joseph are supposed to have lived there? Why do Catholic Bibles have more and longer books in them than Protestant ones? Gathered together in this first volume of Zindler's collected short works readers will find 49 articles, speeches, and lectures written over the space of forty years to answer those questions and to challenge and respond to claims of religious apologists and defenders of the Jewish, Christian, Mormon, and Muslim scriptures, including a reprint and critique of the Danish cartoons that triggered rioting and murder throughout the Muslim world.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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ISBN-13:?9781578840113
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?773

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What is death, and is it inevitable? How did life begin, and can it be extended indefinitely? Why is cloning a threat to theology? What does it mean to be scientific? How do we know the earth is older than is presupposed in Genesis? Who was Mitochondrial Eve, and how do we know evolution has occurred? How could wings and eyes have evolved without an Intelligent Designer? Is creationism a form of treason? How do creationists deceive the public? What's so funny about Noah's Ark? How did the kiwi get to New Zealand and why would we want to know? Is there such a thing as life after death, and do the dead have ways of communicating with the living? Answers to these questions?often humorous and surprising ones are given in this second volume of THROUGH ATHEIST EYES.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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ISBN-13:?9781578840120
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?544

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Over a space of fifty years, Frank R. Zindler took part in more than four hundred informal discussions and debates on radio and television and in dozens of formal debates on public platforms. Lamentably, most of them were not recorded at all, and most of those for which recordings were made were of such low quality that they could not reliably be transcribed for publication. Out of the remainder, only three were deemed suitable for annotation and use for instruction of Atheists and others who regularly are challenged by religionists to defend the scientific and skeptical position of the Free Thinker. Annotated transcripts of those three debates comprise Volume Ill of Through Atheist Eyes.

In the first debate, Zindler engages John Koster, the author of a nasty book?The Atheist Syndrome?in which he argues with book-length ad hominem that Atheists basically are mentally ill due to absent or abusive fathers. Unable to define his god, Koster loses the debate even in the eyes of devout Christians in the audience. In the second debate, Noah's Ark hunter/geologist John Morris of the Institute for Creation Research is challenged to show evidence that there is an ocean liner-size boat perched atop an extinct volcano in Turkey. In the third debate, superstar creationist debater Duane T. Gish is tricked into admitting that creationism is not science.

Elaborate notes help readers to gain a better understanding of the factual dimensions of the subjects under dispute and are intended not only to give readers a sense of Zindler's strategy and support base in these debates but also to help them better intuit the strategies and purposes of Koster, Morris, and Gish.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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ISBN-13:?9781578840137
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?293

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What is Atheism, and what are its logical and philosophical foundations? How does it relate to Humanism? Is religiosity a mental disorder, and why is it so hard to cure? Is there such a thing as free will? Do Atheists have funerals? Was The Amityville Horror really a true story? Who was Madalyn Murray O'Hair? Are we being inundated by a flood of religious disinformation? In addition to answers to these and other questions, readers of this fourth volume of THROUGH ATHEIST EYES will find a lot of humorous material as well?including the often hilarious Fun-With-Dial-an-Atheist pieces that have been recalled from the brink of oblivion and are being presented for one last performance. In addition, readers will find both words and music scores for the outrageous Dial-an-Atheist songs "Rutabaga Baby" and "Theophagy Tango." To balance all that levity, this volume ends with "Poems I Have Spared" ?a swansong of sorts to prepare readers for the autobiographical Volume V: Atheist At Large.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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ISBN-13:?9781578840144
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?654

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