Ack, the Republicans are at it again. Maybe she saw my post on autism meaning that God is unfair. As HuffPo reports: "I am not in favor of abortions, I am not in favor of gay rights," Atanus, who has staged two previous unsuccessful runs for Congress, said during a videotaped portion of the in
Some time back I posted an argument on mentalizing deficits with regard to God being unfair. This broadly stated that certain autistic type people who have an inability to empathise are less likely to believe in God, presumably because the intersubjectivity of empathy allows an agent to see the,selv
I don't know why, but Christians seem to be posting a few comments just now on some old videos of mine. The comments irritate me because they are not so well
http://youtu.be/PjbYr1xTQlE
Great news: The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science has just published a review of Dot, Dot, Dot. Can you find God in numbers? Christian apologists like William Lane Craig say yes. Since God is infinite, we can study him through the mathematics of infinity
OK, it might take you a while to stop laughing. Now, these days, I don't really get involved in evolution arguments with people who flatly deny evolution on such blatantly anti-intellectual terms. I see it as self-delusion, and having written before that such people are impervious to reason and evid
OK, so this sort of thing is what you would usually expect from rabid Republican senators. Anyway, looks like that sort of behaviour has traversed the Atlantic. Let me just get this out of the way first - AAAAARRRGGGGHHHH! Fuckwit! Anyway, the BBC:
OK, so it's not here on my site, but on James A. Lindsay's (whose book Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly I have just edited) site, God Doesn't; We Do, in a debate with apologist Tom Gilson.
Christian: Why is it more probable that your god exists than man made him up? We have an exceptionally high prior probability that your god is false given that we both believe that every other god claimed to be true (before and after) is false. Thus, on prior probability, the JC God is HIGHLY
The discovery of well-preserved pelves and a partial pelvic fin from Tiktaalik roseae, a 375 million-year-old transitional species between fish and the first legged animals, reveals that the evolution of hind legs actually began as enhanced hind fins. This challenges existing theory that large, mobi
Good ole Andy. Always says sensible stuff. Well, this one pops up fairly often in conversations with IDers. Andy uses it to good effect. I thought I would repeat it here as a
Here is another account in my series of real-life deconversion stories. They are often painful, psychological affairs, as you can see from the various accounts. Phil Stilwell, someone whom I came across on facebook (The Unbelievable page). It is a few years old now, but well worth the read. Happy re