David Staume is a philosopher, author, and screenwriter. He writes philosophy and commentary for magazines, radio, websites, documentaries, and runs this website. His latest book 'The Atheist Afterlife - (The God of the Gaps just disappeared completely!) will be available in 2008. David is a rationalist with a deep sense of the immensity and mystery of the cosmos.

 

Born in Sydney, Australia, David moved with his family to rural New South Wales as a small child. He grew up on a property that was home to kangaroos, echidnas, bearded dragons, and an abundance of very big and very venomous snakes. This experience taught him to tread carefully, listen, and only poke around in dark holes if you could run very fast – lessons that have served him well in his search for philosophical truth.

 

Has he discovered it? No, but he has found some valuable and useful philosophies, and he shares these concepts in his books, presentations, articles, and on this website.

 

Some of the principles that David has learned include: if you can’t say it simply, you probably don’t understand it; that even the most serious of subjects can be discussed with humour, and communicated all the more effectively because of it; and that reason is currently our best faculty to understand the world and our place in it.

 

David lives with his wife, Deborah, and his three children. Both he and his wife have a goal of visiting a hundred countries this lifetime. With his current count at only thirty-five he estimates that he will have to live to about a hundred and twenty-five.