Defending The Apparent Truth Of Evolution’s Mindlessness

February 21, 2011 By 4 Comments

Last Christmas Eve, I argued that the belief that God “guided evolution” was not a rationally respectable way to reconcile science with faith but rather it was essentially an effective denial of the theory of natural selection, in its scientifically explanatory sense. Part of the revolutionary character of the discovery of evolution by natural selection [...]

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Darwin’s Birthdaily Hilarity: Creationism

February 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

DarkMatter2525 sums up creationism: Your Thoughts?

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How Belief In “Theistic Evolution” Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism

February 12, 2011 By 1 Comment

The following is a repost from December 24, 2010: One often hears the refrain that it’s possible to believe in both God and evolution.  And it is in fact true, both psychologically and, more importantly, logically, that one may both believe in God and in evolution. Psychologically we have ample evidence that plenty of people [...]

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Another Middle Eastern Dictator’s Regime Is Threatened

February 9, 2011 By 1 Comment

Yahweh is the latest under siege by a young, freedom movement: Speculation has been growing about whether God’s dictatorship will be the next to crumble under the demand for freedom that is sweeping the earth. Yahweh has now ruled without free elections for over 2,000 years. He seized power after the assassination of his son, [...]

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Pat Tillman In Hell? (Or “How NOT To Proselytize”)

February 9, 2011 By 4 Comments

John writes in to trivialize the tragic death of Pat Tillman because he was *gasp*—an atheist: I wanted to leave a comment about Pat Tillmans death in afganistan, while it is tragic, the greater tragedy is that if he was an athiest, He died not knowing ( or not believing )that Jesus died on the [...]

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Cat Faber’s “The Words Of God”

February 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment

This is another, meditative Sunday afternoon song, each of I’ve lifted from either this post or its comments section). This one though is not satirical and should be genuinely amenable to the more sophisticated theist (or pantheist or other believer in a philosopher’s god of some sort), who wants more God in her view of [...]

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All Things Dull And Ugly

February 6, 2011 By 2 Comments

Earlier this afternoon, I encouraged us to sing a hymn about how all things bright and beautiful were made by evolution. While many religious believers and non-believers alike could sing that song together, I worry some religious believers who do not believe in evolution may have been left out of all the fun and singing. [...]

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How Bill O’Reilly Is Like St. Thomas Aquinas

February 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Colbert gives it to O’Reilly straight: “You’re like St. Thomas Aquinas–in that your understanding of the world is also from the 13th Century.” The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Crisis in Egypt – Anderson Cooper & Bill O’Reilly<a> www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive My own [...]

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Pleasure And Pain As Intrinsic Instrumental Goods

January 27, 2011 By 2 Comments

In recent posts I have been arguing that there is one sense of the word “good” which can be analyzed in terms of facts and that this is the kind of “goodness” which we can consider a real part of the world.  This real, intrinsic, factual sense of goodness is its meaning as “effectiveness”. We [...]

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Mutable Morality, Not Subjective Morality. Moral Pluralism, Not Moral Relativism.

January 18, 2011 By 7 Comments

I hope soon to engage a few of the specifics of a debate going on at our friend George’s blog Misplaced Grace which started when a Christian apologist named Peter tried to argue that atheism has no way of ruling out pedophilia as immoral.  Peter’s first remarks were critical of posts at Jason Thibeault’s blog Lousy Canuck. [...]

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