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 […]
That IQ And Atheism Study
Richard Carrier’s Argument To Show God’s Existence Unlikely Is Invalid And Unsound
In the comment section to an earlier piece of mine on Strange Notions, Richard Carrier invited me to “interact” with him through his article “Neither Life nor the Universe Appears Intelligently Designed”, […]
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 […]
Logic: Peter Kreeft’s Summa Philosophica Part I
Since we had so much fun pulling apart Ed Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism (start here), I thought we’d do the same for Peter Kreeft’s brand new […]
What Do Philosophical Proofs Prove? — Guest Post by DAV
Note about civility: we are all, or should be, ladies and gentlemen here. Non-gentlemanly comments will henceforth be censored. Arguments, however, are more than welcome. —Briggs There have been some recent posts […]
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 […]
Atheists More Motivated By Compassion Than The Faithful?
Why? (Source) Today’s title was swiped, word-for-word, from a Live Science press release. This is important because the point I wish to make has to do with how the press and publicity […]
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