I left this out of my previous post on Feser, but it’s worth emphasizing: a central part of Feser’s shtick is talking about how horrible atheists are for not paying more attention to his beloved Aquinas. When Keith Parsons fails to pay enough attention to Aquinas, that’s part of “The brutal facts about Keith Parsons” [...]
Ed Feser’s temper tantrums
July 9, 2012 By 37 Comments
This post ties in with the post series I’m writing on arguments for the existence of God, but I don’t consider it a part of the post series proper. Rather, I want to pre-empt a problem I suspect I may have to deal with with the next post. The problem is this: Catholic philosopher Ed [...]
JT Eberhard: Why the arguments for god’s existence suck
July 8, 2012 By 4 Comments
Given the kick I’ve been on this week (and will continue to be on for another couple weeks at least) about arguments for the existence of God, this video of a talk JT Eberhard gave at the Madison Freethought Festival seems worth posting. JT is a great speaker, and the talk also includes great material [...]
South Korean creationists manufactured a fake victory
July 8, 2012 By 9 Comments
This is a correction to a post I wrote where I reported that South Korean creationists had gotten evolution taken out of South Korean textbooks. I was wrong. I was alerted to this by an e-mail from reader David Cortesi who writes:
Friday recap: arguments for the existence of God, Chris Mooney, and more!
July 6, 2012 By 8 Comments
I’m going to experiment with doing weekly recap posts. This is partly because I got more blogging done than usual this week, including four posts on Wednesday, and people not used to that may have missed some things. Are these worth doing? Let me know what you think. But without further ado:
Peter van Inwagen’s argument for Christianity
July 6, 2012 By 23 Comments
My previous post brings me back to a point I made in chapter 1: too many attempts to refute “atheism” fail to understand that atheism is just thinking there aren’t any gods. They think that refuting “naturalism” or “materialism” or whatever is somehow evidence that their god exists. I’m now going to give a somewhat longer [...]
William Lane Craig vs. cute teddy bear girl on morality
July 5, 2012 By 22 Comments
This is a video I made in November 2010. I think of it every time I hear someone talking about William Lane Craig. His arguments, but especially his moral argument, are so awful that mockery may be the best way to respond:
God: kind of like an abusive boyfriend
July 5, 2012 By 11 Comments
Another great image I’m stealing from Facebook:
Did Chris Mooney have a point?
July 4, 2012 By 60 Comments
On my previous post on Chris Mooney, James Croft left a comment which I’m very grateful for and want to respond to. Here’s the meat of James’ comment: I think that Mooney is making a general case that supporters of science and critics of religion need to pay closer attention to the well-developed science of [...]
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