Here are some notes I made some time ago, based on various sources, some of which are linked below. Richard Carrier's book "Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism" provided an excellent backbone to the first set of points. The methodological and other problems:
Yonatan Fishman, PhD, Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, wrote a really interesting paper contesting the idea that science and the supernatural do not overlap, and that there is no way to test the supernatural. The paper can be found here and is well worth a read. I hope
Science Daily - July 19, 2013 — If you could hit the reset button on evolution and start over, would essentially the same species appear? Yes, according to a study of Caribbean lizards by researchers at the University of California, Davis, Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts. The
Here is sa frightening article from USA Today [H/T Russ Rogers]: Norwegian convicted over rape report issues Gulf caution Interior designer appealing 'very harsh' sentence for illicit sex after she
If you are interested in psychology, then you might be interested in getting hold of a couple of introductory texts by fellow SINner Dr Caleb Lack (Great Plains Skeptic) who has written: Mood
So in my post, the Part 2 of why Vincent Torley is a Christian, Vincent called into question some of Counter Apologist's work undermining William Lane Craig's use of science and metaphysics to try to show that the A-Theory of time is true or that the B-Theory is false. Craig's case is this:
So for those of you who don't know, I wrote a book a year or so ago for dads of twins, more appropriately for the UK market, called Twins: A Survival Guide For Dads. A I recently sent a review copy of the book to a twins website called Designed For Twins and they have kindly posted a review and a sh
July 15, 2013 — Artificial and natural knowledge researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems to see how intelligent it really is. Turns out it's about as smart as the average 4-year-old, they will report July 17 at
So, every four years, my life comes to a grinding and formidable halt. People have nervous breakdowns around me. I work through the night. I think and breathe teaching. And then it passes.
I actually think that the title to this article is misleading, though the article from The Verge is interesting. It looks as though the worms do not regrow their memories but a greater propensity for learning lost skills involved with those memories. Doe this imply epigenetics?
Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution is True (book and blog), states this insightful piece: ...we justify science rather than faith as a way of finding out stuff not on the basis of first principles, but on the basis of which method actually gives us reliable information about the universe. And
I am reposting this article as it is relevant to a recent post on Justin Schieber's non-God objects argument: So in a recent post I was talking about how God, prior to creation (at least according to classical interpretations of God based on the Ontological Argument), had ontological perfection.