What Tom Jump talks about

Secular Church and Objective Morality: How atheists might organize around shared ethics without religious belief.

If you don’t believe in God, what could a church still offer - and what might replace its traditional moral framework?

Tom has founded the Church of the Best Possible World, a secular initiative based

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Morality Models for AI Alignment: A moral framework may help address AI decisions across different speeds and timescales.

How do you teach a system that thinks faster than humans to make morally acceptable decisions?

Tom’s model of morality was developed with potential applications to artificial intelligence in mind. He

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Evaluating Evidence for Religious Belief: Different religious claims require different forms of justification.

Are we using the right kind of evidence to answer the biggest questions about existence?

From the cosmological, teleological and ontological arguments to the historicity of Jesus and the reliability

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Objective Morality Without God: Tom explores defending objective moral principles without a divine lawgiver.

If morality doesn’t come from God, does that mean anything is morally acceptable?

Tom Jump challenges the assumption that atheism necessarily leads to subjective morality. Drawing on his own model of

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Neurodivergence and Public Philosophy: How anxiety and autism shaped a move from online engagement to public debate.

What happens when someone who struggles with social interaction starts putting their ideas in front of the world?

Tom has spoken about living with depression, severe anxiety and an autism diagnosis

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Engaging Religious Arguments on Their Terms: Challenging belief by examining whether its reasoning works from the believer’s perspective.

What if the strongest way to challenge an argument for God is to understand it from the believer’s perspective?

Rather than relying solely on scientific objections or arguments familiar to atheists

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