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How should we interpret the religious skepticism of elite scientists?
September 19th, 201105:43 PM ETThere have been many surveys of the religious belief (or lack thereof) of scientists. While certain factors vary, the overall pattern is strikingly consistent: scientists on the whole are less likely to be religious than the general population. And elite scientists (e.g. members of the NAS or Royal Society; nobel laureates, etc.) are less likely to... -
Is doubt good? Is skepticism a virtue?
September 14th, 201103:33 PM ETWhile reading through Michael Shermer's enjoyable book How We Believe: Science, Skepticism and the Search for God (New York: Henry Holt, 2000) I came across the following passage: "Doubt is good. Questioning belief is healthy. Skepticism is okay. It is more than okay, in fact. Skepticism is a virtue and science is a valuable tool that makes s... -
Can we rationally believe in an atonement we don’t understand?
August 18th, 201103:02 PM ETHaving surveyed Ken Pulliam's discussion of the PST, I have now been asked by Robert: "How do the other theories fare? I'm guessing they have problems too, since men like Luther and Calvin rejected them in favor of PST." First off, Luther actually is associated with the Christus Victor model rather than PST, though Calvin most definitely is an adv... -
Has Stephen Law been sucked into an intellectual black hole? A Review of Law’s “Believing Bulls**t”
August 02nd, 201111:04 AM ETStephen Law. Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole. Prometheus, 2011, 271 pp. ISBN: 978-1-61614-411-1. In the vein of Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World (Ballantine, 1997) and Michael Shermer's Why People Believe Weird Things (Holt, 2002), comes this new book by Stephen Law, senior lecturer in philosophy ... -
Dawkins’ infinite regress and why it really matters
May 23rd, 201110:13 AM ETOver the last several days I have launched several important charges against Richard Dawkins' letter to his daughter . These critiques have been, for the most part, simply ignored by the many enthusiasic Dawkins apologists who have lept to his defense this week. So I am going to slow right down and lay out a fundamental critique more fully. I will... -
Richard Dawkins’ foolish advice to his daughter
May 19th, 201102:52 PM ETThanks to Beetle for linking us to Richard Dawkins' advice to his then ten year old daughter. I call it foolish because any advice that is self-referentially defeating is foolish. First, Dawkins tells his daughter: "Something that you learn by direct seeing (or hearing or feeling...) is called an observation. Often evidence isn't just observatio... -
The Christian Delusion, Paul Tobin, reasoned faith and inspiration
August 15th, 201009:52 PM ETIt's been awhile since I blogged with any regularity and even longer since I last reviewed an essay from John Loftus' edited volume The Christian Delusion. But I'm going to finish what I started here, although I'm going to take the pace up a notch from earlier reviews. From now on each essay gets only one blog post. Sorry folks, but that's the way ... -
Assorted Replies to the Faith, Reason, and Believing the Bible is the Word of God Discussion
July 02nd, 201011:04 AM ETTentative Apologist: "I have just completed a two day jaunt in the mountains and am now deep in the wilds of southern British Columbia (the westernmost Canadian province). Hence, the radio silence for the last couple days. I offer here scattered replies to the discussion in The Tentative Apologist Reader on Faith and Reason. I will catch up with ot... -
The Tentative Apologist Reader on Faith and Reason
June 28th, 201005:21 PM ETSorceror: "Rauser, please link to specific articles where you make the case for "the Bible is the Word of God" being 'properly basic' or the equivalent." Glad to oblige. Here are most of the relevant posts where I provide a particular moderate foundationalist theory of epistemology and then apply it to religious beliefs. I would r... -
The burden of the critic
June 28th, 201003:16 PM ETI feel as overwhelmed at the moment as Justin Bieber staring at his in-box. If I try to respond to every critic then this whole dialogue is going to grind to a halt because there just ain't enough hours in the day. So instead of engaging with any specific critic at this point I'll simply provide a concise summary and partial restatement of my epis...
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