Recently, Andreas Schueler and myself have been having a debate about abortion, particularly with regards to the context of spontaneous natural abortion. The idea came out of my post God Loves Abortion. Apologist JW Wartick, on his own blog, concluded this:
(RNS) Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., the only openly atheist member of Congress, lost his race for another term on Tuesday (Nov. 6). But nonbelievers will not remain unrepresented in the Capitol. Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, a former Arizona state senator, Mormon-turned-nontheist and a bisexual, has narrow
Why, indeed, do normal people believe ridiculous things? We have heard much from John Loftus about the OTF – the Outsider Test for Faith – which essentially illustrates that religion is a (geographical) accident of birth. It claims that if believers used the same critical powers they use to assess,
Some good news, courtesy of James McNair at City Beat. The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., created quite an uproar in 2007 when it opened with exhibits showing early humans co-existing with dinosaurs.
Here is an excellent set of analysis of the demographics of the voters in the US Presidential Election 2012 from the BBC. What I found fascinating is the religious vote not being quite what I expected, though I would like to see results for evangelicals and fundamentalists.
It's a weird situation that speaks volumes when you are more scared about a political party and their leader getting into power in a foreign country than you are in who does get in in your own country!
Now that Sandy has exacted a steep toll in lives and property, the question is unavoidable: why do so many people in America refuse to take climate science seriously? Rick Santorum at the RNC, in August 2012: the former presidential candidate has voiced Christian Dominionist ideas. Photograph:
I recently came across Gregg Caruso's book Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the Illusion of Free Will. Gregg dropped me a line after coming across my blog and we got chatting. I have not read this book yet, but it seems to ally itself pretty strongly with my first book, Free Wi
Here is my latest video offering to the world of You Tube. Let me know what you think. http://youtu.be/wQdu9dvg16Y
Partly in response to some feedback, and partly because it is about time, I thought I'd post a philosophical essay of mine looking at epistemology. Here, I hope to set out how I come by knowledge. Let me know what you think, as ever.
In the context of all of the claims made by Republicans about rape, this video is rather amusing (though about a very serious issue). http://youtu.be/mg_4O6XmKAQ
In one of my recent posts about the Nativity, JohnM has been defending a particular harmonisation of a biblical difference. I would like to set it out here in order to show that