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“To babies, objects ought to obey the laws of physics“ And I wondered why New Scientist is referred to as the National Enquirer of science. Michael Brooks1 wrote a wonderful explanation of just how much fun you can have telling quaint stories while making a living as a scientist. Oh no, no, no! Do not…

Recently, Professor Richard Dawkins compared Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to Adolf Hitler. Although, Richard Dawkins was later careful to qualify his comparison of a Jewish Rabbi to Hitler it was surely a qualification that could only be justified in the mind of Richard Dawkins who has invested a large portion of his life directing his particular…

Once Philip Pullman attempted to popularize his books, and the movie based one of them, in the USA he realized that he was no longer preaching to the Euro-Secular choir and decided to slow his roll (as they say in common parlance). Thus, the New York Magazine article entitled, Philip Pullman Realizes ‘Killing God’ Not…

Wherein we consider how Dan Barker utterly discredited himself and solved the “problem of evil.” This essay will commence a critique of various points made by the Freedom From Religion Foundation‘s Dan Barker during his debate with Peter Payne on the topic of ethics. Below, when I transcribe Dan Barker’s statements I will refer to…

In this portion we will finish off the New Testament portion of Charlotte’s 22 side dishes and begin to get a tasted of her fallacy of attempting to talk atheist into believing that New Testament Christians are supposed to follow Old Testament laws. 8) Believers are supposed to hate their parents when they follow Jesus…

Let us pick up where we left off last time: 15) Tattoos are anathema: (“You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you. I am the Lord”–Leviticus 19:28) Despite this teaching I manage to see Mexican Catholics daily with tattoos of the Virgin Mary,…

At this point I must parse Charlotte’s 22 side dishes as she begins to make the fallacy which I mentioned at the beginning of part 1 which discredits the overwhelming majority of all of her arguments from impotent outrage. These are the texts that seek to apply Old Testament laws to Christians. We will group…

Now, let us consider the manners in which she attempted to vilify Christians for not following laws that were not meant for them. 3) A third tenet prohibits men and women from wearing each other’s clothing (“The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s…

Parsing Statements With this in mind, let us consider the specific examples offered by Daniel Dennett: Al Queda and Hamas terrorism is still Islam’s responsibility—this is tricky since the problem that Islam has in dealing with terrorism in its name is the doctrine of abrogation whereby the peaceful proclamations of the early preaching of Muhammad…

Having mentioned Mano Singham’s Physics Today article “The Copernican myths” in a few of my posts, I thought to reproduce it here.1 Following is the text of the article: Atheism and scienceThe real story of how the scientific and religious establishment greeted the Copernican revolution is quite different from the folklore. And it’s a lot…