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Carl Sagan's old time religion

September 30th, 201002:42 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

I 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...
On the love of atheists

April 09th, 201012:01 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

In "Is love a many splendored thing, or is it just a way to get what you want?" I pointed out that love -- the love of which poets write, inebriated lounge singers sing, and starry-eyed newlyweds share -- fits ill with a dysteleological Darwinian view of the universe in which "love" is a mere product of biological evolutionary history. I wasn't di...
“Prove God exists lowly theist, or prove yourself a fool!”

February 20th, 201001:11 PM ET

By Randal Rauser

We've all heard stories about the lone American soldier, stranded on a South Pacific island, who was discovered decades later still believing that World War II was in full swing. The image provides a fine metaphor for people who remain inexplicably locked in the past in their understanding of reality. It is with that background that I note my...
Atheism and the meaningless life

July 27th, 200911:54 AM ET

By Randal Rauser

Twenty ago Air Supply sang about "Making love out of nothing at all." A challenging task no doubt. But it ain't nothing compared to making meaning out of nothing at all. And that is the challenge faced by the atheist who denies that there is any objective meaning. (There is another kind of atheist but I haven't heard a peep from that kind in this b...

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The Tentative Apologist

Carl Sagan's old time religion

On the love of atheists

“Prove God exists lowly theist, or prove yourself a fool!”

Atheism and the meaningless life