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March 2011

March 07, 2011

Miracles Case Study

As a follow-up to this morning's post about miracles and skepticism, I wanted to share...

March 07, 2011

Show Me a Miracle Marvelous Rare

Many Christians or religious people of any faith tradition, argue that miracles are compelling evidence...

March 06, 2011

The Euthyphro Strikes Back

This week, The King and I blog (which is doing a guided reading through the...

February 2011

February 14, 2011

Sorry, did someone say ‘Transhumanism?’

You may think no one's mentioned transhumanism on the blog lately, but then you haven't...

February 09, 2011

Atheism as a Proxy Variable

I have a fun surprise coming down the pipeline as part of my series on...

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...

February 01, 2011

Testing the Truth-Telling Thing

"This, therefore, is, in conclusion, my reason for accepting the religion and not merely...

January 2011

January 29, 2011

I Assign You Reading!

(Don't worry, it's short). I've really appreciated all the reading suggestions that you've made which...

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 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 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...

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 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 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 02, 2010

Questions for Atheists: Why is there Anything?

This is part of a series of posts answering Michael Egnor's eight questions for atheists....

November 02, 2010

Questions for Atheists: Why is there Regularity/Law in Nature?

This is part of a series of posts answering Michael Egnor's eight questions for atheists....

September 2010

September 16, 2010

The Summons (another approach to humility)

This post is one in a series about Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. I am...

September 15, 2010

An exercise in arrogance

This post is one in a series about Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. I am...

September 12, 2010

My Attempted Conversion Story

Most of the conversion stories I've read follow a general pattern: emptiness or unhappiness (even...

September 11, 2010

A Religion I Like (Series Index)

Telling someone I'm an atheist tells them very little about what I believe or why. ...

August 2010

August 11, 2010

Natural Moral Theory is Bunk

This is part of a series of posts on gay marriage. You can see all...

August 06, 2010

One last look at sight

This post is part of a series on morality and mathematics. If you're not into...

August 06, 2010

Empirics, Morality, and Rational Ignorance

Time for another go round of responses to comments on the last two posts in...

August 06, 2010

Optimized and Arbitrary (part 2)

This post is part of a series on math and morality. You can see all...

August 05, 2010

Math and Morality Index

In August of 2010, I wrote a series of posts on the relationship between math...

August 05, 2010

Optimized and Arbitrary

This is one of a series of posts about math and morality. I'll be getting...

August 04, 2010

Tangled up in Blue

Thanks so much for all the comments and challenges to yesterday’s post in the Math...

August 03, 2010

As sure as I am of anything

This is the third post in a series about math and morality. Read about the...