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Frank R. Zindler (born 1939) is an American atheist who served as interim president of the atheist organization American Atheists in 2008. He was former professor of biology and geology, and Chairman, Division of Science, Nursing, & Technology, at Fulton-Montgomery Community College of the State University of New York. He is both editor of American Atheist Magazine and Director of American Atheists Press. In the spring of 2011, he published a multi-volume anthology of his short essays and other works.

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Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes only? Could anything be more un-American than the Second Commandment's warning that "I Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. "? Not even the Common Law would have hung a man because his grandfather had stolen a horse!

Horse, Children, Father, Fourth, Accountable, Jealous

There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.

Imagine, Nike, Past, Plants, Sneakers, Unless

Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.

Men, Ministry, Contradiction, Interrupted, Contradicted

The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam and Eve never were real people the central myth of Christianity is destroyed. If there never was an Adam and Eve there never was an original sin. If there never was an original sin there is no need of salvation. If there is no need of salvation there is no need of a Savior. And I submit that puts Jesus, historical or otherwise, into the ranks of the unemployed. I think that evolution is absolutely the death knell of Christianity.

Jesus, Real, Thinking, Devastating, Knell, Biological

Among mammals, a virgin birth (parthenogenesis) can only produce female offspring, for chromosomal reasons. Messiahs are mammals. Therefore, Jesus was. . . On the other hand, among turkeys, the chromosomal situation is such that all products of virgin birth are males. So if Jesus was a male, he might also have been.

Among, Hands, Jesus, Male, Offspring, Turkeys

The First Amendment of the US Constitution. . . is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is also a repudiation of the Third Commandment's prohibition of freedom of speech. The Thirteenth Amendment repudiates the institution of slavery which is so cozily assumed by the Fourth and Tenth Protestant Commandments.

Religious, Freedom Of Speech, Atheism, Protestant, Thirteenth, Prohibition

To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.

Silly, Tree, Brain, Auto, Speeding

Real scientists are required to play by the rules without exception. Creationists follow the rules of science only so long as it is expedient. Then they resort to miracles. But resorting to miracles is not offering an explanation: it is asserting that no real explanation exists. Whenever creationists resort to miracles, they are admitting that their system cannot account for the facts of nature; it cannot explain the world.

Real, Offering, Play, Miracles, Account

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