BANG!! CAPOOEY!! Outside they're starting to celebrate Victoria Day early, firing off fireworks. Here in Canada we have two opportunities to light fuses and blow things up--Victoria Day and Canada Day (July 1)--by the way.

This evening I've been responding to an argument that's been going on about atheism and morality in Canada's National Post. The one who started it was John Moore, a radio talk show host in Toronto and an agnostic who argued that using pure reason is a better way to come up with a code of morality than is the Bible. If you want to follow the thread, click here. My remarks are somewhere near the end of the comments.