Contributors
Thomas Beasley
Tom Beasley is an alumnus of the University of California at Davis, where he received a B.A. in Classical Languages (both Greek and Latin) and English. He is currently studying law at the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. His interests include politics, technology, art, literature, languages, and (of course) video games. Tom is a long time non-believer and was never affiliated with any religion; he was raised in a secular household. He describes his lack of belief as ‘agnostic atheist’ or ‘negative atheist’ and subscribes to the Russell’s teapot notion of any of the vague god propositions.
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Colin Wright
Colin Wright is a senior at the University of California, Davis, majoring in Evolution and Ecology, with a minor in Paleontology. He will be applying for graduate school in Animal Behavior in hopes of attaining his Ph.D. His goal is to become a biology professor. Colin has been active in the atheist movement for nearly six years by starting clubs, booking speakers, attending conventions, and maintaining an active blog Warm Little Pond. Colin is fascinated by the natural world, and has deep interests in evolutionary biology, and especially how it can be used to illuminate the mechanisms governing the behavior of animals.
Apart from academic interests, Colin enjoys reading, writing, and watching movies that are so bad they’re good; which are generally terrible B horror films—the lower the budget, the better. Colin also plays the bass guitar, idolizing Les Claypool, and has played in a few bands, one of which managed a short stint on the radio.
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Robin Marie
Robin Marie Averbeck is a graduate student in American history at the University of California, Davis. She received a BA in History and Political Science in 2006 from the University of California, San Diego. While in San Diego she wrote for both The Guardian and The MQ,and has recently written for HealtyCal.org, an online news source about California. She also blogs about politics and culture at Isolation Incomplete.
Robin’s favorite intellectual interests are revolutions, particularly the American, French and Russian Revolutions, the Enlightenment, and progressive politics. Her hobbies are reading and writings things not required for her dissertation; apart from reading and writing, taking care of her beloved Miniature Schnauzer Maverick takes up most of her spare time. Her favorite TV shows are The Wire and Six Feet Under, which she believes collectively trump almost any movie ever made. Her favorite people include Jon Stewart and Conan O’Brien. She finds it odd to write about herself in third person.
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Anthony David Jacques
Anthony David Jacques has been published both online and in print, including the 2011 collection, Warmed and Bound : A Velvet Anthology.
He was raised all over the Midwest in a charismatic Assemblies of God family. By the age of seven Anthony began noting logical problems in various Bible stories, but his fearful deference to authority held sway for nearly two decades to come.
He graduated from North Central Bible College in 2004 with a degree in Music Theory and served as a Music Pastor until early 2009, when the questions of his youth, and many collected since then, became too much to allow him to lead worship in good conscience.
Anthony completed his Graduate Gemology program in 2011. He now lives in San Diego, CA, with his wife and daughter, and is currently refining his taste in Irish whiskey and English tobacco.
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Michael Gage
Michael Gage is currently a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Prior to that, he earned a B.S. in psychology with minors in philosophy and religious studies. Mike was raised in the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal sect of Christianity that holds many fundamentalist beliefs. During his teenage and college years, Mike began rejecting the literal truth of the Bible and eventually the existence of any god altogether. His areas of interest include philosophy, New Testament studies, and science. In his spare time, Mike enjoys reading fiction and spending time with his wife and young son. He also writes for the blog: http://foxholeatheism.com.
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Christopher Thielen
Christopher Thielen is the creator of An American Atheist and is a graduate of the University of California, Davis with current employment as a Web Application Developer. He maintains a variety of interests including photography, astronomy, music, writing and computing. His personal atheism is best characterized by a heavy interest in science and culture. He is a self-confessed technologist and thinks science fiction is pretty neat. He also owns an inordinate number of Apple products.
He is responsible for the open source game programming project, Epiar, and maintains a hardly updated blog.
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