Regular readers will recall there are two Types of Scientism. Type I is belief that Science is needed to verify commonplace truths. Type II is the belief that only Science can provide […]
Science Asks: Why Are Angry Atheists Annoying?
What’s more annoying than an atheist who harangues passersby about “rationality”? Easy answer: a scientist who announces a discovery about human behavior that was known by everybody since Adam. Our tip comes […]
That IQ And Atheism Study
A lovely, but not at all unexpected conceit, held firmly by a certain sort of atheist, is that he has based his non-belief on his superior intelligence. He quotes, “A fool says […]
Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part Last: Skulls Full Of Nothing
Don’t Think Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. Buy the book ($12.92 as of last glance). There is a curious phenomenon […]
No Religion Is Third-Largest World Group: Or, How Inaccurate Are Surveys On Religious Belief?
The actual headline at Reuters was “No religion” is the third-largest world group after Christians, Muslim, but my expurgated version is close enough. It’s also similar to many of the news reports […]
The Dire And Depressing Implications Of Science As Scientism: Two Introductions
A long introduction… Scientism is the fallacy that all that is known and all that can be known, can only be known through scientific methods: that which is testable is all that […]
Religion May Become Extinct, Experts
In 1850 in the Netherlands nearly everybody was a Christian. A century later, three out of four said they still were. But if you believe mathematicians Daniel Abrams and Haley Yaple and […]
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