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The Quadripartite Equine Riders, part 3 of 11
Amazing PerplexityChristopher Hitchens states: “I didn’t expect, when I started off on my book tour, to be as lucky as I was and I, Jerry Falwell died my first week on the road, that was amazing.” Sam Harris, very enthusiastically and laughingly, “Yes, that was amazing luck!” This must be far too erudite and or…
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The Quadripartite Equine Riders, part 5 of 11
Faith, Evidence and Doubting Thomas Sam Harris stated, “…this idea that you start with a premise that belief without evidence is especially noble, I mean, this is the doctrine of faith, this is the parable of doubting Thomas…” I found it fascinating that he correlates “belief without evidence” with doubting Thomas since that “parable” makes…
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The First Commandment of Thermodynamics
At least, some treat the First Law of Thermodynamics as a sort of commandment which they seek to employ in a self-serving manner. Such was the case with Brian Sapient of the Rational Response Squad (during his, and Kelly’s, debate with Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron). Two quick things to point out: he made the…
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The BOBA Digest, Part 1: Schadenfreude
This, the first installment of The BOBA Digest will focus on an argument that surely proceeds forth from the murky depths of atheism’s barrel (see our definition of BOBA here). The argument that I wish to present is one that claims that Christians demonstrate that they do not really believe in all of this stuff…
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Atheism in the UK and the Deleterious New Atheists
On very rare occasion I decide to pull an interesting article from directly from another website and repost it here. Such will be the case in this post as I will quote, in its entirety the UK Guardian‘s Madeleine Bunting‘s April 6, 2009 AD article “Real debates about faith are drowned by the New Atheists’…
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In Defense of Plantinga
Note: this was written by one of my fellow co-authors when I was posting to the Atheism is Dead blog: Though I haven’t been writing much lately, I still like to visit my old pals over at Debunking Christianity from time-to-time. Today, after perusing their blog, I noticed a post criticizing a personal hero of…
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Dan Barker – Scriptural Misinterpretations and Misapplications, part 11 of 14
Poverty Equals Salvation? Dan Barker wrote: “According to Jesus, what must you do to have eternal life?…Sell everything you have and give all the money to the poor. -Heaven will be very empty, it seems. How many Christians take seriously this direct command of Jesus? ‘And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good master,…
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The Latest Dawkins Spanking
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The Apostle Thomas : Patron Saint of Scientists?
In his article Is Science a Religion?, Professor Richard Dawkins wrote: “Well, science is not religion and it doesn’t just come down to faith. Although it has many of religion’s virtues, it has none of its vices. Science is based upon verifiable evidence. Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its…
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The New Atheism: A Quest of Confusion-Part I
NOTE: This essay was written for Atheism is Dead (True Freethinker‘s predecessor) by someone who was simply pseudonymed “M”—part 2 was never posted. It has been a few years now since Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett began their ideological war against Theism. Those on the defense have already attempted their responses…