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A truly excellent analysis of theology
I couldn't have said it better myself, so read it there: it's the God Conundrum. -
Lest it be said that I am biased toward atheist authors...
[JD 2455131.21] Stephen Frederick Uhl's Coming Out of God's Closet is really quite awful. I would never have bought it; I received it free from the Center For Inquiry. (In the future I recommend the CFI use better books… -
Genesis, corrected
On the first Plack time, the universe came into being. Space and time began. On the trillionth Planck time, the universe began to expand and cool. On the four-hundred million trillion trillionth Plank time, there… -
The fundamental question all theists must answer
In planning my trip to the CreationMuseum, trying to think up what I could say to someone so thoroughlyentrenched in a religious worldview that would even get close topersuading them to reconsider the importance of sc… -
Pascal's real Wager
As I've discussed earlier, Pascal'sWager as stated doesn't really make sense, for several reasons. Thegreatest of these, I think, is the fact that the existence of God isa single-play game, and as such we are wrong to… -
Why I oppose NOMA
There is a fairly large contingent ofscientists—good, respectable scientists like Stephen Jay Gould andNiles Eldredge—who advocate a position known as "Non-OverlappingMagisteria," usually abbreviated (somewhat strange… -
The kind of religion it might be rational to have
All right, I admit it; there is a kindof belief in God that might be rational to have.It would say something like this:"There is probably some sort ofself-caused entity, which then caused everything else. I experien… -
Name the source!
I'll give you a hint: It's an old philosophical text, roughly 2000 years old. It was written in Greek. I have organized its statements into rough headings: [Everything has a purpose:] Everything has a season; there is … -
The trouble with writing
The trouble with writing is that there are too many choices. A writer can literally design worlds from scratch; in writing, I can design a universe character by character, brick by brick, atom by atom. I can rewrite the… -
"What does this sentence mean to you?"
lt;!--@page { margin: 0.79in }P { margin-bottom: 0.08in }-->He sat across from me as I was reading(I still have not finished that chapter!), and pushed a card towardme.Upon it were the words,“Yet the Lord…
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Virulent Senioritis
This has not been a good semester for me. I suffer... -
CFI hosted a speaker tonight.
First, it proved that the local chapter of the Cen... -
A truly excellent analysis of theology
I couldn't have said it better myself, so read it ...
