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Atheist and Darwinian Science and Story Telling, part 2 of 9 | True Freethinker
Miscellaneous Examples: In the essay Scientific Cenobites I provide many, many quotes such as the following regarding wishful speculations, storytelling, narratives, myths, ethos, and philosophizing in the name of, in the guise of, science. Franklin M. Harold, emeritus professor of biochemistry at Colorado State University, wrote: “We should reject as a matter of principle the […]
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Atheism – The New (Emergent) Atheists, part 3 of 4 | True Freethinker
An Atheist New World Order – A One World Atheist ReligionFollowing on the steps of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, who conceived of a civil religion) and Auguste Comte (1798-1857, who conceived of a religion of humanity), the New Atheists tear down Christianity and seek to build their church in the rubble.Daniel Dennett stated: …there could be […]
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Atheism – The New (Emergent) Atheists, part 1 of 4 | True Freethinker
Have you heard the saying, “If it’s true, it’s not new; and if it’s new, it’s not true?” Well, the “New Atheists” fit the bill-they are not new, and they are not representing what is true. Part 1: Who Are The New Atheists? and What Are Their Claims? Part 2: What Is Their Appeal? and […]
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Roman Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory, part 2—The Apocrypha | True Freethinker
General Comments: The books that are accepted in the Roman Catholic Bible, as opposed to, generally speaking, the Jewish or the Protestant, are: Baruch, Judith, 1st and 2nd Maccabees, Sirach a.k.a. Ecclesiasticus (not to be confused with Ecclesiastes), Tobit a.k.a. Tobias, Wisdom of Solomon, as well as small additions to Daniel and Esther. Roman Catholicism […]
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Richard Dawkins – Planting God More Firmly on His Throne | True Freethinker
Professor of biology, Richard Dawkins, “Highly intelligent people are mostly atheists.”1 Physicist, and former Chairman of the Department of Materials Science at Stanford, Richard Bube, “There are proportionately as many atheistic truck drivers as there are atheistic scientists.”2 In his book The God Delusion Prof. Richard Dawkins approvingly quotes Irish playwright and poet Sean O’Casey’s […]
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Atheist and Darwinian Science and Story Telling, part 1 of 9 | True Freethinker
In studying atheism, and their attempts to co-opt Darwin’s theory of evolution and science in general, I have encountered twin logical fallacies so often that I have come to coin two terms to describe them: the fallacy of validation by projection and the fallacy of validation by regression. This parsed essay essentially picks up where […]
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Roman Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory, part 1—An Introduction | True Freethinker
When Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger was a renowned theologian, Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (the former Holy Office), which is the most important Vatican curial office, charged with the preservation and promotion of Catholic orthodoxy (he then became Pope Benedict XVI) stated, My view is that if Purgatory did […]
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Atheism – The New (Emergent) Atheists, part 4 of 4 | True Freethinker
Is The New Atheist Movement Dead? The New Atheists have expressed that the proverbial straw-that-broke-the-Atheist-camel’s-back was the group of attacks on the United States of America on September 11, 2001 AD. That is not to say that some of them were not Atheist activists before then, but 9/11 fanned the flames of their activism.The attacks […]
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The Nephilim, the Annunaki and the Apkallu | True Freethinker
In view are just a few points made in the Annunaki website’s article Who Were the Nephilim? I have previously written about the issue of Annunaki and Apkallu with relation to the Nephilim in a series found under Origin of Watchers. The article does a good job reviewing the two main Judeo-Christian views on the […]
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“Billions and Billions of Demons” | True Freethinker
This post comes forth from the oldie but goodie file. “Billions and Billions of Demons” is the title of Prof. Richard Lewontin’s New York Times Book Review of Carl Sagan’s book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark-Volume 44, Number 1 (January 9, 1997) Following is the unabridged text of this very […]