I was wondering today, as I lay there with one of my twins in my arms, as to whether oughts can be derived from a natural pre-programmed’ behaviour. For example, if an evolved characteristic, such as aggressiveness in males (I am generalising here, of course) or to want to eat meat, or, if it could
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Recently, I have featured Frank Turner on a couple of posts, mainly due to his rousing hymn to atheism, Glory Hallelujah. See the embedded video where Frank is playing at London's Wembley Arena. It's incredible to think that some 12,000 people are singing the words "there is no God" in unison. I re
Dear GOP candidates and party members, I'm going to give you some free campaign advice: stop talking about rape. The latest Republican rape commentary comes from Romney-endorsed Indiana senatorial candidate Richard Mourdock, who tells us: "I think even when life begins in that horrible situa
I have been reading the first chapter of Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish recently and it really struck me again how strong, persuasive nay indomitable, the predictive powers of evolution are. The simple idea that a paleontologist can think that the first fish fossils were found at time A and the fir
I thought I'd re-post this thread from when I was regularly contributing to John's original Debunking Christianity blog. See what you think: I was recently talking, an a thread or two, about the historical implausibility of pretty much all of the claims in both Luke and Matthew with regards to
Evolution, often perceived as a series of random changes, might in fact be driven by a simple and repeated genetic solution to an environmental pressure that a broad range of specieshappen to share, according to new research. Princeton University research published in the journal Science suggests
Here is an interesting little piece from Skeptic Money. I have written on abortion before and am enjoying some vociferous debates offsite. This is a useful piece of ammunition in certain contexts of
On 15 October, a group of theologians, philosophers and physicists came together for two days in Geneva to talk about the Big Bang. So what happened when people of such different - very different - views of the Universe came together to discuss how it all began? "I realised there was a need to
I am hoping to run a series of real deconversion stories. I find the whole process very psychologically fascinating, especially since they can be both sad and desperately difficult for a myriad of reasons. Personally, I have never experienced anything like this myself and can only empathise from afa
In a Tuesday night debate with his Democratic rival and a Libertarian candidate for one of Indiana's U.S. Senate seats, Republican candidate Richard Mourdock suggested that pregnancies resulting from rape are "something that God intended to happen," despite the "horrible situation" from which they d
Experts working on proto-Elamite hope they are on the point of 'a breakthrough' The world's oldest undeciphered writing system, which has so far defied attempts to uncover its 5,000-year-old secrets, could be about to be decoded by Oxford University academics. This international research proje
So, on to the rebuttals. Craig pointed out in several of his rebuttals that Law has not, and did not seem to want to, critique the cosmological argument. Craig does have some beef here as Law seemed to want to debate Craig’s version of God rather than the more fundamental argument over A God’s exist