A reader having a crisis of faith sent me an e-mail describing his situation; with permission I’m posting excerpts from it with my responses:
Sam Harris vs. Glenn Greenwald on Islam
April 5, 2013 By 14 Comments
As a huge fan of both Sam Harris and Glenn Greenwald, I feel like I ought to comment on this exchange. I’m a little unsure what to say though, because Greenwald’s points are a mixture of plausible and nonsensical.
Forever 35? Thoughts on a society of immortals
March 25, 2013 By 12 Comments
One of the challenges of writing speculative fiction (science fiction or fantasy) is that often, your characters are really fucking old and it can be hard to know what to do with that.
Evolution, original sin, and the problem of evil
January 25, 2013 By 9 Comments
Previously: Yes, creationism is religiously motivated
The ontological argument in brief
January 9, 2013 By 25 Comments
In this post, I’m going to try to do something I’ve never done before: attempt write a statement on the ontological argument for inclusion in the book, and make it concise. Here it goes:
“But lots of scientists are religious!” and other arguments on science and religion
January 9, 2013 By 26 Comments
So I’ve resolved to get my book’s section on science finished this month. One thing I want to do in it is address responses to Dawkins’ comments on the relationship between religion and science (and responses to the Gnu Atheists more generally here, but Dawkins is the name that comes up most often in this [...]
But do the tactics of popular atheism work?
December 10, 2012 By 4 Comments
The following is an excerpt from chapter 3 of the book.
Argument works
December 9, 2012 By 1 Comment
The following is an excerpt from chapter 3 of the book.
Hirsch numbers for… err… various people
December 7, 2012 By 6 Comments
This post was originally going to be titled “Hirsch numbers for theologians,” but I got a little carried away checking Hirsch numbers for people in different fields and now it’s just “Hirsch numbers for various people.” The original intent, though, was to check something that’s been bugging me about chapter two of the book: are the theologians [...]
Best testing a book: Chapter 2: The many gods I don’t believe in (yours included)
November 28, 2012 By 12 Comments
I just got done cleaning up my draft of chapter two of the book. It’s called The many gods I don’t believe in (yours included). Summary below the fold: Richard Dawkins’ Big Bad Quote What do ordinary religious believers believe? The theologian who can’t tell you what he believes What is fundamentalism? Who’s really ignorant about theology? [...]
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