30 Preposterous Things You Need To Believe To Be A Christian

July 7, 2010 By 3 Comments

John W. Loftus, the former minister turned atheist, author of Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity, and the primary blogger at Debunking Christianity (whose updates you can follow daily in our blogroll feed) has a terrific summation of 30 extraordinarily unlikely ideas, at least most of which most Christians would have to [...]

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The Cosmological Argument, The Composition Fallacy, And More Reasons Not To Believe In God

July 3, 2010 By 3 Comments

Shane Wilkins, a graduate student in philosophy at Fordham (where we were fellow students and colleagues until just recently), has been an invaluable regular commentator at Camels With Hammers. He has served as my primary theistic foil since the beginning, when our 7-part debate (which started with my post Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellecuals 1) propelled this [...]

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6 Basic Kinds Of Answer To The Question “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?”

July 1, 2010 By 3 Comments

by Eric Steinhart Why is there something rather than nothing? This question includes God in its scope: if there is a God, then God is something, so we can always ask: why is there God rather than no God? This implies that the question cannot be answered by appealing to God. It can’t be answered [...]

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Beyond Agnosticism: More Details About How I Know Various Kinds Of Gods Do Not Exist, Based On Scientific And Philosophical Reasons

June 30, 2010 By 6 Comments

While I agree with, and vigorously defend, the notion that there is an important difference between lacking a belief in gods (as an agnostic atheist) and believing there are no gods (as a gnostic atheist), I also think that atheists should not, based on the best available scientific evidence and philosophical arguments, merely lack belief [...]

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Daily Hilarity: 40 Proofs Of God’s Existence

June 30, 2010 By 3 Comments

Your Thoughts?

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No, I’m Not An Atheist By Faith, Here Are My Arguments.

June 29, 2010 By 35 Comments

Yesterday Ron Rosenbaum aggressively attacked atheism and defended agnosticism in Slate. He starts out with the familiar charge that atheists have “faith”. But faith in what? Atheists display a credulous and childlike faith, worship a certainty as yet unsupported by evidence—the certainty that they can or will be able to explain how and why the [...]

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Rejecting The Question, “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?”

June 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

PZ Myers calls attention today to a post from Sean Carroll from a couple of years ago, which reminds me in part of some of my own thinking about the confusion in the question of “why there is something rather than nothing?”. I had a Thomist philosophy professor who impressed upon me that for Aquinas [...]

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Christopher Hitchens Vs. Laura Ingraham & Doug Wilson

June 20, 2010 By 1 Comment

They start talking after an opening minute of some Gospel Bob Dylan: Your Thoughts?

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The Thing That Made The Things For Which There Is No Known Maker

June 20, 2010 By 2 Comments

Strictly deriving belief in the Christian God logically from the problem of where everything comes from: It’s amazing how the problem of how something comes from nothing leads to so many obvious and unavoidable truths, isn’t it? Your Thoughts?

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How Genesis Is Not Only Literally False, But Metaphorically False

June 12, 2010 By 14 Comments

Mary Midgley argues that only the views of fundamentalist literalists are refuted by the fact of evolution: Appeals to evolution are only damaging to biblical literalism. Certainly the events described inGenesis 1 are not literally compatible with what science (from long before Darwin’s day) tells us about the antiquity of the Earth. But this is not [...]

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