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June 2015

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“Faith” as a redundant term

Faith is a term which is bandied about with carefree abandon, but what does it...

December 2014

December 07, 2014

All hail Jibbers Crabst!

Enough said:

November 2014

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Gould’s NOMA – a thorough analysis (part 1) revisited

This post will be split into two parts due to its length. This will allow...

July 2014

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Top down or bottom up?

'Rationality is useless if it is not sound. This is what Martin Luther meant when...

July 25, 2014

Top down or bottom up?

'Rationality is useless if it is not sound. This is what Martin Luther meant when...

March 2014

March 13, 2014

God cannot act contrary to his own predictions and cannot know that he knows everything

I am reposting this one again because it came up in a comment by Shatterface...

January 2014

January 07, 2014

Faith: Pretending to know what we do not know

Using Peter Boghossian's analysis of "faith" from his book A Manual for Creating Atheists,...

January 05, 2014

Quote of the Day by Ed Babinski

I am hoping to have Ed Babinski writing the foreword to Beyond an Absence of...

December 2013

December 19, 2013

Merry Christmas Everybody – it never happened though, and here’s why (and also why we shouldn’t believe anything else about Jesus)…

Christmas is upon us, the season of joy and merriment, the season, it seems, of...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

Philosophy 101 (philpapers induced) #5: Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism?

So having posted the Philpapers survey results, the biggest ever survey of philosophers conducted in...

November 01, 2013

The Münchhausen trilemma – what grounds a claim?

I got into a nice little conversation with quality fellow bloggers James East and Counter...

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July 15, 2013

Jerry Coyne on science (vs religion) for explaining things and being generally useful

Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution is True (book and blog), states this insightful piece:...

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June 06, 2013

The unfalsifiability of William Lane Craig – a reminder

Just in case you haven't seen this old chestnut, or in case you had forgotten...

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April 26, 2013

The circularity of believing the New Testament

So here's the thing. The Christian seems to historiographically rate the NT over and above...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Philosophy 101 – Socrates Factfile

I've been thinking. In doing the philpapers inspired Philosophy 101 series (found here and here,...

December 2012

December 26, 2012

Heads You Win, Tails I Lose #1

When thinking about subjects like the fine-tuning argument it becomes apparent that the theist loves...

November 2012

November 18, 2012

The Relativity of Wrong – Asimov on science and the fuzziness of right and wrong

This excellent letter by Isaac Asimov was brought to my attention by Andy Schueler in...

November 18, 2012

The Relativity of Wrong – Asimov on science and the fuzziness of right and wrong

This excellent letter by Isaac Asimov was brought to my attention by Andy Schueler in...

November 04, 2012

An Essay on Epistemology: Can there be very strong reasons for believing something although it is false?

Partly in response to some feedback, and partly because it is about time, I thought...

October 2012

October 17, 2012

Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence

I thought I'd resurrect this old chestnut. This was reported by the Secular Outpost some...

September 2012

September 09, 2012

Evolution – don’t throw the baby out with the bath water

I was having a discussion about evolution over on another thread of a post I...

August 2012

August 16, 2012

Gould’s NOMA – a thorough analysis (part 2)

As Promised, the concluding part to yesterday's blog post. Is there really no overlap between...

August 16, 2012

Gould’s NOMA – a thorough analysis (part 1)

This post will be split into two parts due to its length. This will allow...

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