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• The rules of science

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 464
  PZ Myers has a great post Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher About Intelligent Design. It briefly discusses, and disposes of, some of the most common intelligent design (ID) arguments. And does it so clearly. He is a great writer – and I just don’t know how gets time to write so well and do all the ...
  7 hours ago

• Theist, Agnostic, Atheist: Will the Real Charles Darwin Please Stand Up?

  
  Uncommon Descent — Authority: 587
  When history imitates game show . . . Those old enough to remember TV in the late 1950s through the 60s will recall a delightful game show, “To Tell the Truth.” As a kid I fondly recall trying to figure out along with the celebrity panelists which of the three contestants was the “real” person to be ...
  4 days ago

• This Hell would be useful!

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 464
  Book Review: The Infernova by S. A. Alenthony Price: US$11.21 Paperback: 220 pages Publisher: Blackburnian Press (August 11, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0981967892 ISBN-13: 978-0981967899 Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the ...
  5 days ago

• Reasonable Enough: Why Reason Does Not Compel Acceptance

  
  DefendingGenesis.org — Authority: 412
  It is COMPLETELY WRONG to say that I think atheists or any other non-Christians would agree with me if they would just open up their eyes and see reason.  I do not believe reason could infect someone [profoundly affect someone] so as to compel them to see my position as truth. I don’t think that at [...]
  5 days ago

• Ethics and War in a Secular Age

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Decoupling religion from war is not an easy thing. The poet Stephen Spender, in reflecting upon World War II, wrote these lines (in his poem, “Rejoice in the Abyss”): Against an acrid cloud of dust, I saw The houses kneel, revealed each in its abject Prayer, my prayer as well: ‘Oh, God, Spare me the lot ...
  6 days ago

• Michael Ruse, an Atheist, on Why He Hasn’t Signed Up with the New Atheists (or Confidence Atheists)

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Daniel Dennett. PZ Myers. Richard Dawkins. Jerry Coyne. Philosopher Michael Ruse is an atheist too. But don’t sign him up with the above confidence atheists. Why? Here’s one reason that he gave in a recent essay in the UK’s Guardian: [H]ow dare we be so condescending? I don’t have faith. I really ...
  1 week ago

• Stupid Creationist Arguments 4: Not So Irreducible Complexity

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 117
  The irreducible complexity argument was developed by Michael Behe and first used in his book Darwin’s Black Box.The argument is that some biological systems are so complex that they can not have evolved though mutation and natural selection; it you remove one peace, it brakes, it no longer functions. Creationists ...
  1 week ago

• Confessions of a Born-Again Agnostic

  
  John's Place — Authority: 117
  I feel like Ive finally officially slipped into the Agnostic zone. While I still feel that I am a spiritual person, I am feeling increasingly uncomfortable with the buffet table approach Ive been taking in regard to Christianity, just picking up the bits I like, and leaving the rest behind. At the same time, I dont ...
  1 week ago

• Religion! The Movie.

  
  Greenlee Gazette — Authority: 142
  Ive gotten into a huge online argument on Facebook recently. It started out as a rebuttal to a "friend"--actually a high school acquaintance--who was jubilant about the "Yes on 1" victory over gay marriage in Maine. I wasnt pleased, to say the least, and said so. But it devolved, as these things always do, to a ...
  1 week ago

• Richard Dawkins in Wellington next March

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 464
  Auckland got Richard Dawkins by video this year when he announced the winner of the inaugural Royal Society NZ science Book of the Year award. Next March Wellington will get him in person. Dawkins will be speaking during the Writers and Readers Week at the NZ International Arts Festival. Details (evening of ...
  1 week ago

• Stupid Creationist Arguments 3: The Fine Tuned Argument

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 117
  The argument is self explanatory. The universe, the earth, blah has been fine tuned fro life. Some take the argument further and say the universe, the earth, blah has been fine tuned for human life.I’ll start with the universe: The majority of the universe is empty space. The vast majority of the matter in the [...]
  1 week ago

• Promoting confusion

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 464
  A great feature of the scientific endeavour is that our ideas, hypotheses and theories are usually tested against reality. In fact we get very worried when we can’t do this. Consequently there has been some philosophical discussion and concern around speculative ideas or hypotheses like string theory (really ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stupid Creatonist Arguments 2: Cosmological Argument

  
  Lone Wolfs Den — Authority: 117
  Everything that comes into existence has a cause, the universe came into existence thus it had a cause and that cause was God.The Cosmological Argument starts out with a decent premiss and then plunges head first into stupidity. “Everything that comes into existence has a cause” this makes sense and fits with our ...
  2 weeks ago

• To discover the meaning of life...consult Merriam-Webster.

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 652
  As an atheist, what sort of activities or practices (that dont involve New Age wankery) can I get into to increase my spiritual welfare?
  2 weeks ago

• An Agnostic’s View of Society and the World

  
  Grand Rants — Authority: 499
  A Grand Rants Op/Ed Hey… How about that for a concise and laser-beam title? Way to narrow down the subject matter, ay? Truth be told, the title, “ An Agnostic’s View of Society and the World ” isn’t all that “universe-encompassing”… (At least not for me, and I’d imagine that there are other ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Universe From Nothing

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 464
  The origin of the universe is one of the biggest questions there is. Some people resort to easy answers – which don’t answer anything. But its good to know that others do take the question seriously and actively research it. Here is a great lecture from Lawrence Krauss – “A Universe from Nothing”. He is ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Bible of Militant Atheism

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 525
  by Aasem BakhshiContrary to the mainstream religious belief, incredulity and skepticism regarding the ultimate nature of truth, existence of God and eschatological claims of scripture is not an entirely modern phenomenon. In his famous thought experiment Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Ibn Tufayl the famous Muslim philosopher of ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Bible of Militant Atheism

  
  Non Skeptical Essays — Authority: 389
  Contrary to the mainstream religious belief, incredulity and skepticism regarding the ultimate nature of truth, existence of God and eschatological claims of scripture is not an entirely modern phenomenon. In his famous thought experiment Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Ibn Tufayl the famous Muslim philosopher of 12th century Spain, ...
  2 weeks ago

• An Atheist Writes a Poem to the Dark Ontological Mystery: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (1816)

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (1816), is an extraordinary instance of an atheist addressing—or speaking to—the shadowy side of the ontological mystery (the mystery of being) as if it possessed a human  persona , or was even a god. The poem has seven stanzas. Here’s the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Defending science and reason

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 464
  Book Review: The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason by Victor Stenger Price: US$12.92 Paperback: 282 pages Publisher: Prometheus Books (September 22, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 1591027519 ISBN-13: 978-1591027515 Hello there! ...
  2 weeks ago

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