Leave it to Live Science to ask Would Finding Aliens Shatter Religious Beliefs? Answer hint: maybe yes, maybe no. Experts say so. The discovery of life beyond Earth would shake up our […]
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 […]
Science Explains Belief In God Through Genetics
Let’s look at “Life’s Extremes: Atheists vs. Believers”, a piece on Live Science (the home of unexpurgated university press releases; hat tip to HotAir). The article is itself slight—it begins by informing […]
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 […]
Do only the less intelligent write papers about theists being less intelligent?
There are some new statistical papers floating around that conclude that the more intelligent among us tend to be atheists. An equivalent, but more enjoyable, way of stating this is that dumber […]
New Term For “Brights” Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins
A New Name The “brights” are at it again. What is a “bright”? It is not, as is by now well known to contemporary thinkers, the opposite of a “dim”, a “dark”, […]
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