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Sam Harris
Conservapedia has posted an interesting and troubling article titled, “Atheism and Intolerance” featuring Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, American Atheists, Chris “Ali Baba” Thiefe, Gary Wolf, Dan Barker, Bill Maher, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, et al. They were also kind enough to cite some of the quotes from right here at good ol’ TrueFreethinker.
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Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne on free will, part 4 of 9
We continue considering that Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne deny free will: find the entire series here. Coyne writes: Sam Harris noted in his book Free Will, all the attempts to harmonize the determinism of physics with a freedom of choice down to the claim that “a puppet is free so long as he loves…
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Sam Harris
Sam Harris charges theists with arrogance since, according to him: “One of the monumental ironies of religious discourse can be found in the frequency with which people of faith praise themselves for their humility, while claiming to know facts about cosmology, chemistry and biology that no scientist knows.”1 Incidentally, we may note that we have…
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Sam Harris Proves Karen Armstrong’s Point
[Note: I am reposting this as I have to move it from whence it was originally posted long ago] Sam Harris—atheist activist and pseudo-neuroscientist—attempted to take Karen Armstrong to task and did a splendid job of strengthening her point. Karen Armstrong wrote an article with which Sam Harris took umbrage yet, being an emotive reactionary…
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Natalie Wolchover
Some of my books, all of which you can find here or here: Social networks: My Amazon author’s page Facebook Twitter YouTube Archive video site Ken Ammi’s Product Reviews My CafePress shop Google + Norm Geisler references TrueFreethinker.com: Apologeticspress.com’s Kyle Butt references TrueFreethinker.com: Read the article about which Gary Habermas, PhD (Distinguished Research Professor &…
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Flat Earth then and now
There are more people that believer in the flat Earth today than at any other time in history. There is a reason why when claims are asserted that, in particular, Christians have a long history of belief in a flat Earth the two referenced names are Lactantius (240-320 AD) and Cosmas Indicopleustes (6th c. AD).…
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god
I have placed the following Why Do Good Things Happen To Bad People? related images into my CafePress site where you can purchase them upon t-shirts, stickers, etc. This pertains to the problem of evil and is thus, a theodicy, “…He makes His sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on…
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Marjory Waugh
Some of my books, all of which you can find here or here: Social networks: My Amazon author’s page Facebook Twitter YouTube Archive video site Ken Ammi’s Product Reviews My CafePress shop Google + Norm Geisler references TrueFreethinker.com: Apologeticspress.com’s Kyle Butt references TrueFreethinker.com: Read the article about which Gary Habermas, PhD (Distinguished Research Professor &…
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Michael Shermer – Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World
Michael Shermer (about whom I have written much) had an article published in Scientific American—no, note the peer reviewed science journal but their blog—titled Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World, June 1, 2009 AD. He begins by noting, “Souls, spirits, ghosts, gods, demons, angels, aliens, intelligent designers, government conspirators, and all manner of…
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free will
Some of my books, all of which you can find here or here: Social networks: My Amazon author’s page Facebook Twitter YouTube Archive video site Ken Ammi’s Product Reviews My CafePress shop Google + Norm Geisler references TrueFreethinker.com: Apologeticspress.com’s Kyle Butt references TrueFreethinker.com: Read the article about which Gary Habermas, PhD (Distinguished Research Professor &…
