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Does a really old universe show that human beings are not important?
July 05th, 201110:07 AM ETMark Twain thought so. In one of his finest rhetorical moments (in a career sparkling with them) he wrote: "Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of pa... -
Why no professional philosopher would use Dawkins’ argument
April 18th, 201102:36 PM ETI have been accused of being unfair to Dick Dawkins. Well let's look at what Dawkins calls "the central argument of my book" (The God Delusion, 187). He summarizes it in six steps. Steps 4-6 are not directly relevant to the core of the argument against God, so I've only reproduced steps 1-3 (see The God Delusion, 188): 1. One of the greatest chall... -
A great “godless” book
April 15th, 201109:34 AM ETPete Hautman. godless. Simon Pulse, 2004. 198 pp. ISBN: 10: 1416908161 It is summer in St. Andrew Valley and Jason Bock is fifteen, awkward, disenfranchised and bored. Needless to say the Catholic Church he is forced to attend by his parents doesn't add much in terms of excitement. Father Haynes is "a thousand years old at least" (33) and his serm... -
Does extraordinary uncleanliness require extraordinary soap?
March 30th, 201103:28 PM ETOnce again the claim has surfaced: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." And once again I have had to shoot it down. Now what could be the problem with a principle so symmetrically reasonable? Grey days produce grey moods. Cold weather requires a cold weather jacket. Why wouldn't extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence?... -
Carl Sagan's old time religion
September 30th, 201002:42 PM ETI would like to say some more about Sagan’s Pale blue dot fallacy but before doing so let’s say something about Sagan’s (ir)religiosity. It is often assumed that Sagan was an atheist. (Here I am assuming the standard definition of atheist as one who believes there is no God where “God” is defined broadly as the being as defined by the wes... -
Anarchists and atheists and Bibles, Oh My!
September 02nd, 201007:04 PM ETIt is a danged shame that I can’t give all the fine comments that find their way into my blog the attention they deserve. But I do what I can, and last week I made a note to get back to the comments of AnAtheist.Net. I’ve included them below and numbered them for ease of reference (just like a medieval monk numbering biblical passages you might... -
Three reasons agnostics shouldn't call themselves atheists
January 02nd, 201012:32 PM ETThe Problem The line between atheist and agnostic used to be clear. Atheists believed that no God or gods existed. Agnostics didn't have any belief as to whether God or gods existed. But today people have taken to calling themselves atheists simply because, as it is commonly said, they "lack belief in gods". In other words, agnostics now call them... -
Mysteriously moved keys and theistic explanations of the world
December 30th, 200903:18 AM ETThere is a chilling scene early in the blockbuster horror flick "Paranormal Activity" where Katie walks into the kitchen in the morning and finds keys on the floor. We've all been in a similar situation. Our keys (or some other personal item) is not where it should be. And so we seek for an answer. What ... or who moved my keys? Unfortunately for ... -
On taking people seriously
December 06th, 200910:04 AM ETIn "Does God speak today? A Case Study" I recounted (or rather, reproduced) Kevin's story in which he reported receiving information from God about future events which later occurred as predicted. Conversational Atheist (henceforth "CA") then commented: "Are you seriously expecting anyone to take you seriously when you seriously propose that God ta... -
Atheism versus theism: who bears the burden of proof?
October 26th, 200911:39 AM ETIn my last post I pointed out that atheism becomes very contentious when it is wedded to the naturalistic worldview. As a way into the discussion I summarized naturalism as follows: Naturalism: "the view that the only things that exist are matter and energy and that which supervenes upon matter and energy." Let's call this the "naturalism th...
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