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LINK: Science Says Atheists Should Come Out of the Closet for their Own Good
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Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism
January 30, 2013 By 5 Comments
Abstract: The cognitive science of religion is a new field which explains religious belief as emerging from normal cognitive processes such as inferring others' mental states, agency detection and imposing patterns on noise. This paper investigates the proposal that individual differences in belief will reflect cognitive processing styles, with high functioning autism being an extreme style that will predispose towards nonbelief (atheism and agnosticism). This view was supported by content … [Read more...]
Pro-Life Atheists
January 25, 2013 By 1 Comment
Hemant Mehta's post about pro-life atheists is a great reminder of the diversity among nontheists. While the stereotype of atheists, at least in the U.S., is that we are all liberal on a variety of issues, that isn't the case. Pro-life atheists are an example. … [Read more...]
Jerry Coyne Blogs about Three Critical Reviews of Nagel’s Book
January 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Another Example of Theistic Mind Reading: Mark Driscoll Says Obama Isn’t a Christian
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Prometheus Books strikes distribution deal with Random House
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Call for Papers
January 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
While I am blogging about the Internet Infidels, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that I.I. is always interested in publishing new essays on The Secular Web. Our “Call for Papers” page lists essays and book reviews we would especially like to publish, but if you are interested in writing on another topic, please let me know. … [Read more...]
The Flat Earth Society
January 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Yes, there really is a Flat Earth Society. They even have a website. … [Read more...]
Loftus’s Outsider Test for Faith viewed in HD with Bayes’s Theorem
January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
In a recent post, I mentioned that anyone interested in the discussion regarding "atheism versus faith" should be reading John Loftus. Particularly, I noted an argument from his excellent Why I Became an Atheist, the "Outsider's Test for Faith" (OTF), which he is elaborating upon in a new book of that title to be published by Prometheus Books next spring. Subsequently, I made a comment that piqued his interest by saying that "[the OTF could be] greatly strengthened by appropriately … [Read more...]
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