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April 23, 2018
Scientific Consensus and the Argumentum ad Populum
As if to fulfil his identity as poster boy for naive Creationist by making all...
April 22, 2018
You Cannot Derive Morality from the Bible Alone
A short one tonight, and one that will be no new great idea for you,...
April 21, 2018
The Attacks – An Apocalyptic Vision
From that day forward, they were just called The Attacks. Nobody on the planet had...
April 20, 2018
Trump’s New NASA Chief a Climate Denier
And so it continues... Giving this important job to a Tea Partier. Gah. The Independent:...
April 20, 2018
Beauty: Can You Only Really Get It with God? (No)
A Christian commenter recently claimed this humdinger: If God exists, beauty and ugliness are not...
April 20, 2018
Brain Scans Predicting Social Bonds
This was a fascinating article from the New York Times that looks at the predictive...
April 18, 2018
I’m Speaking at Stop the War Q & A at Bournemouth University Tomorrow Night
I have been invited onto the panel at Stop the War Coalition, Bournemouth tomorrow night....
April 18, 2018
Shaving the Christian God with Occam’s Razor
The following piece was sent to me by my friend, who often goes by the...
April 16, 2018
Witnesses Explain the Most Momentous Event in History
This was forwarded by a friend. Heh heh: WITNESSES EXPLAIN THE MOST MOMENTOUS EVENT IN...
April 14, 2018
Addendum – Contextualizing Science
I appreciated much of the feedback from my last post on contextualizing science, particularly the one...
April 13, 2018
Quote of the Day: Anne Fenwick on Race and IQ
Anne Fenwick has written some good comments on this Jeremiah Traeger-inspired thread. They are worthy...
April 13, 2018
Oh My God, Trump! (And How Evangelicals Square the Circle)
I often listen to Stephen Colbert's monologues, and this one from last night was very...
April 12, 2018
Can Scientific Data Be Divorced From Broader Cultural Context?
This week’s episode of Sam Harris’ Waking Up Podcast featured a fairly contentious conversation with...
April 12, 2018
Aquinas, Distinction, Composition and Divine Simplicity
In continuing to comment on the idea of divine simplicity, as it pertains to the...
April 12, 2018
Secular Government vs. Theocracy
I recently got into a discussion with an individual who claimed that atheist governments were...
April 11, 2018
First Humanist Chaplain in NHS
This is a great sign and a reflection of shifting attitudes and demands within UK society...
April 11, 2018
The Conversion/Deconversion Wars: Islam and Christianity
It turns out that (American) Islam is losing Muslims at a pretty high rate. About...
April 10, 2018
Divine Simplicity and a Trinitarian God
In theology, the doctrine of divine simplicity says that God is without parts. The general idea of divine simplicity can...
April 09, 2018
Robert Price and Bart Ehrman on the Rise of Christianity
Given that there have recently been threads talking about why Christianity has succeeded in the way...
April 09, 2018
The Exodus Debunked: Analysing some “Counter-Evidence”
Time to take the defenders to task. And, I must say, we have a dismal...
April 07, 2018
Collating Biblical Contradictions
I have posted this before but it is well worth perusing: Stay in touch! Like...
April 07, 2018
The One True Religion
In a recent comment thread, a particularly devout believer whom I will identify as TJT...
April 05, 2018
Ehrman vs Licona: a Few Remarks
I posted this debate the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP7RrCfDkO4&feature=youtu.be I think this is worth watching, I...
April 05, 2018
The Exodus Debunked: Concluding Matters
It's been quite a little project, but it is time to draw matters to a...
April 04, 2018
Hunting
When I was a kid, growing up in rural Michigan, everybody hunted. Before I was...
April 02, 2018
The Resurrection Debunked: Naturalistic Explanations
As mentioned in my previous posts, it is that time of year that the historicity of...
April 01, 2018
The Resurrection Debunked: The Empty Tomb
As mentioned in my two previous posts, it is that time of year again where the...
April 01, 2018
A Bit of Easter Humour
The serious philosophical point to one of these is that Jesus' sacrifice wasn't all that:...
March 2018
March 31, 2018
The Resurrection Debunked: Extraordinary Claims
As mentioned in my previous post, someone in Malawi is about to have a debate...
March 31, 2018
Memories
What do we remember and what do we forget, and why? It’s a common belief...
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