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February 2011

February 03, 2011

Picking and Choosing my Metaphysics

Erik and Ebonmuse together made the best critical responses to the question I asked on...

February 03, 2011

Chesterton Aftermath (Part 1)

Thanks for all the comments and questions that you've left on my Monday post on...

January 2011

January 20, 2011

Follow Up on Sam Harris

Just as a quick follow-up to my post on The Moral Landscape, I wanted to...

January 18, 2011

Taking a Wrong Turn in the Moral Landscape

I really, really wanted to like Sam Harris’s The Moral Landscape: How Science Can...

January 12, 2011

Fun and Games with Minds and Brains

There have been a bunch of interesting comments already on my post on Mind/Brain division,...

January 11, 2011

Picking an Atheist’s Brain… er… Mind

Over at The Warfare is Mental, blogger cl was perplexed by a recent comment of...

January 10, 2011

Reading and Praying… One of those I can do.

The new school term has started, so I've been going through the list of suggestion...

January 10, 2011

Ethics Without Other People are Empty

I don’t understand ethical systems or teleology meant for humans that doesn’t talk about our...

January 08, 2011

Where can I find atheists arguing about ethics?

After reading “What Atheists and Republican Strategists Have in Common.” one anonymous commenter took issue...

January 06, 2011

The Purpose Paradox

My ability to recognize purposefulness is incredibly contingent on my ability to understand the natural...

January 02, 2011

Throwing Ideas into the Arena

I've been in an extended commenting debate over at Debunking Christianity, after mentioning Loftus in...

January 01, 2011

What Atheists and Republican Strategists Have in Common

I recently wrote a post ("The Perils of Decentralized Philosophy") as a response to Friendly...

December 2010

December 31, 2010

Questions for Atheists: Does Moral Law Exist in Itself?

This post is one in a series responding to Michael Egnor's challenge to New Atheists to explain what they...

December 23, 2010

John Loftus reveals his Questions for Christians

Some time ago, prominent atheist (and ex-Christian minister) John Loftus and I had a bit...

December 22, 2010

The Perils of Decentralized Philosophy

Last week, a gunman opened fire during a school board meeting in Florida. Luckily no...

December 20, 2010

An Atheist Christmas

I'm back home and making up my traditional end-of-semester sleep deficit. I'll have a few...

December 10, 2010

Covenant Marriage: What about Women?

This post is part of a series on covenant marriage. Mason was troubled by my...

December 04, 2010

What We Talk About When We Talk About Marriage

My support for covenant marriage led me to mix it up recently on facebook with...

December 02, 2010

Questions for Atheists: Why is there Evil (Part 2)

This post is part of a series written in response to creationist Michael Egnor's Eight Questions...

November 2010

November 24, 2010

Thinking Skeptically about Atheist Explanations

The Friendly Atheist runs a regular feature called "Ask Richard" -- an advice column penned...

November 22, 2010

Are People “Atheists First?”

I've been blogging about whether atheism as a community and what might tie it together...

November 17, 2010

Can There be an Atheist Agenda?

After I got into a disagreement about tactics with John Loftus of Debunking Christianity, I...

November 14, 2010

Are Atheists a ‘Side?’

After reading through my disagreement with John Loftus over appropriate tactics for debunk religion, Dom...

November 10, 2010

Q&A: What counts as proof? What beliefs are provable?

This post is linked to a series inspired by Michael Egnor's eight questions for atheists...

November 09, 2010

Questions for Atheists: What Caused the Universe?

This post is one in a series responding to Michael Egnor's challenge to New Atheists...

November 06, 2010

Questions for Atheists: Why is the human mind intentional?

I'm still working on my series of posts answering the eight questions posed to atheists...

November 05, 2010

Loftus responds to my critique.

Since he explained why he would not be replying again on the comment thread at...

November 05, 2010

My Problem with Loftus (Part 2)

This is continued from a discussion I am having with John Loftus of Debunking Christianity....

November 05, 2010

My Problem with Loftus (Part 1)

I've been engaged in a back and forth with John Loftus over his proposed questions...

November 04, 2010

Why do atheists ask boring questions?

UPDATE: I've taken a second look at the language I used at the end of...