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January 31, 2013
The Perfect Goodness of God – Again
I have been struggling for weeks to try to re-state Richard Swinburne's argument concerning the...
January 31, 2013
Cat: Jewish Zombie can make you live forever?
HT: AtheistSoup.com
January 30, 2013
Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism
Abstract: The cognitive science of religion is a new field which explains religious belief as...
January 30, 2013
Christianity Today’s
Review of Susan Jacoby’s
The Great Agnostic
I haven't read Jacoby's book, but Christianity Today's review strikes me as a sympathetic if...
January 30, 2013
Petition about Boy Scouts Atheism Ban
The Boy Scouts of America is in the news again because it is apparently reconsidering...
January 30, 2013
Feser Insults (Insulted?) Parsons Again
If Edward Feser is not yet the JP Holding of theistic philosophers, he seems to...
January 30, 2013
Hillarious Summary of the Argument from Shotgun Weddings Against Same-Sex Marriage
Over at Preliator pro Causa, Joe McKen presents a hillarious summary of what has to...
January 29, 2013
An Argument Against Moral Facts
In a seminar on Metaethics (h/t John Brunero) , I encountered an argument against moral...
January 28, 2013
New URLs for RSS Readers
If you are using an RSS reader, please update your reader as follows. To follow...
January 28, 2013
How the Distinction between Deductive vs. Inductive Arguments Can Mask Uncertainty
Everyone who has taken a philosophy 101 class has learned the distinction between deductive and...
January 28, 2013
Jeff Lowder Speaking in London
I will be speaking to the Central London Humanist Group. Here are the details: Topic:...
January 26, 2013
All New Comments Are Temporarily Being Held
After the migration to Patheos, I learned that it may, in fact, be possible to...
January 25, 2013
Pro-Life Atheists
Hemant Mehta's post about pro-life atheists is a great reminder of the diversity among nontheists....
January 24, 2013
Read
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This is our last post on Blogger–at least for the foreseeable future. All new Secular...
January 24, 2013
Word of the Day
"Ignoranus" Someone who is both ignorant and an asshole.
January 23, 2013
Jerry Coyne Blogs about Three Critical Reviews of Nagel’s Book
LINK
January 22, 2013
Ryan Stringer on Nonbelief and Hope
Here is the abstract for Stringer’s new paper published on The Secular Web: Many people...
January 21, 2013
Another Example of Theistic Mind Reading: Mark Driscoll Says Obama Isn’t a Christian
Here is a link to Hemant Mehta’s post at Friendly Atheist.
January 21, 2013
In Conversation with Richard Dawkins
Location: Sheldonian Theatre Friday, February 15th, 7:30 Professor Dawkins and philosopher Stephen Law discuss the...
January 20, 2013
If There Is No God, Then Why Do So Many People Believe in God?
A reader recently asked me this question. I was raised Catholic and even as a...
January 20, 2013
Prometheus Books strikes distribution deal with Random House
LINK
January 20, 2013
Call for Papers
While I am blogging about the Internet Infidels, I’d like to take this opportunity to...
January 20, 2013
Internet Infidels Board of Directors
I just rejoined the Internet Infidels Board of Directors for the first time in 8-10...
January 19, 2013
Priest Plans to Defy Vatican Orders
"The Rev. Tony Flannery, 66, who was suspended by the Vatican last year, said he...
January 19, 2013
The Flat Earth Society
Yes, there really is a Flat Earth Society. They even have a website.
January 18, 2013
More Straw Manning of the Opposition
Over at He Lives, David Heddle provides another example of a theist straw manning the...
January 18, 2013
Podcast: Objective morality and atheism; the evil god challenge; risks posed by religion
I did a podcast for Malcontent's Gambit here. It's about 45 mins long. Alan and...
January 18, 2013
An Argument from Scale — Poster Style
HT: Adam Taylor As a nitpick, theism by itself does not say anything about God...
January 18, 2013
Religion in Human Evolution
I tried to read Robert N. Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution. It should have been...
January 18, 2013
Loftus’s Outsider Test for Faith viewed in HD with Bayes’s Theorem
In a recent post, I mentioned that anyone interested in the discussion regarding "atheism versus...
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