My First Two Months

Yep, it's been two months since I started this blog, and for the most part I'm pretty happy with how it's going. There's so much I want to cover, but I often just don't have the time (and it doesn't help that I'm kind of a slow writer). I thought I'd make a quick index/summary of what I've written about so far. Here are my blog posts from January:

• Welcome!: A quick summary of why I'm not a Christian, and what I do believe
• Don't Just Believe...: Christianity stresses belief & denigrates evidence
• The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: A shallow but useful resource for Bible issues
• A Few Definitions: Defining terms commonly used on this blog
• The TalkOrigins Archive: A definitive, comprehensive pro-evolution resource
• My History with Young Earth Creationism: How I became a YEC, & how I fell away
• An Atheist on the O'Reilly Factor: Part 1/4. Discussing an atheist billboard & God
• Exploring Cognitive Biases: Religious belief exploits a ton of them
• Viva Wikipedia!: Convenient, broad, & has some great pages relevant to this blog
• It's Not Just Me: Part 2/4. Comedian Stephen Colbert responds to Bill O'Reilly
• Why Not Theistic Evolution?: How the whole Bible assumes creationism is true
• I Visit a Megachurch: Analysis of the experience & what it means for Christianity
• The Alternate Religion Comparison: Giving believers a different perspective
• WEIT: Intelligent Design is Creationism: Starting on Why Evolution Is True
• Defining (and Dispensing with) Faith: Most faith exists apart from evidence
• WEIT: The Tree of Life: How nested hierarchies support evolution
• The Way of the Master: The slick, fallacious tactics of an evangelism ministry
• WEIT: Continental Drift: A massive problem for young earth creationism
• Creationism and Blind Faith: Creationists stress faith over (& despite) evidence
• Expectations Influence Perception: Why believers see what they expect to see
• News of the Resurrection: Bible conflict: did the women proclaim it right away?
• WEIT: Radiometric Dating Works: We have independent confirmation to prove it
• Genesis 1, Version 2.0: How Genesis 1 might look if it was divinely inspired
• JI: What Christians Don't Know and Why: Starting on the book Jesus, Interrupted
• Bible Study Resources: Reading and analyzing the Bible online
• Simulated Evolution: A test of a natural selection sim that "evolves" 2D cars

And from February:

• Wrong Rite Reviews: Superstitious reviews of The Rite in my local newspaper
• WEIT: Tetrapod and Bird Evolution: Tiktaalik, Archaeopteryx, and more
• The Stupid, It Burns...: Part 3/4. O'Reilly asks more ignorant, pointless questions
• A Creationist Examines Human Tails: And badly misinterprets a scientific paper
• JI: On What Day Was Jesus Crucified?: On Passover or the Day of Preparation?
• It's (Still) Not Just Me: Part 4/4. Colbert, Conan & an astrophysicist respond to Bill
• Pharyngula: An incendiary but witty and informative blog on evolution & atheism
• Why Believers Think Prayer Works: How biases strengthen belief in prayer
• WEIT: Cetacean Evolution: Transitions from land mammals to whales
• God and His Ant Farm: Objective observers would see God as weirdly obsessive
• Ebon Musings & Daylight Atheism: Many great essays & an accompanying blog
• Is the Singularity Near?: Examining an extravagant prediction of tech revolution
• A False Echo of Discontinuity: Creationist mag gets genetics & evolution wrong
• Developments at UCSD: Upcoming religion debate & the Rational Thought club
• JI: What was Joseph & Mary's Hometown?: Was it Bethlehem or Nazareth?

That's a pretty good variety of topics, and I think the arguments I've made are fairly substantial. I may focus a bit too much on countering more evangelical strains of Christianity, although given my personal religious background it's hard not to.

In the future I'll try to focus a little more on philosophy and ethics, and I plan to make more posts on the two books I've been reading (Why Evolution is True and Jesus, Interrupted) as well.