Atheists Will Have No Excuse
There is a class of the argument of God’s existence that depend entirely on your thoughts. The one that interests us is Joseph de Maistre’s “no excuse” argument. It is…
Category: Book review
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Book Sneak Peek: Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy
All, here is a segment, a tease, a mere fragment, of an upcoming book of popular fallacies from the chapter Imposing Your Beliefs Fallacy. The Imposing Your Belief Fallacy occurs…
The Why & Frequency Of Miracles: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part IV
Read Part I, II, III. MOTIVE That miracles have supernatural origins is true by definition (see below, in PROBABILITY). Miracles, like all events, must have causes, and cause has motive…
Inference To An Explanation: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part III
Read Part I, II. Did Jesus walk on water? Eyewitnesses reported he did. The event was so well remarked that people wrote of it at a time when most events…
Inference To The Best Explanation: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part II
Read Part I. A researcher puts you into a room. On the table is a blue ball. Somebody put it there. It could have been Alice, Bob, or Charlie. Given…
Profoundly Ignorant: Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth Reviewed — Part I
There is almost nothing to like in Larry Shapiro’s The Miracle Myth: Why Belief in the Resurrection and the Supernatural is Unjustified. But, as Shapiro would be sure to agree…
Strobel’s The Case for Miracles Reviewed
We earlier did Strobel’s press conference. I won’t repeat details of that here, which is concerned solely with the book. Strobel sticks with the formula that brought him to the…
Uncertainty Book Report
Springer sent me the book report Uncertainty for 2017. Since its online publication on July 01, 2016, there has been a total of 16,765 chapter downloads for your eBook on…