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Atheism
William Lane Craig vs. Daniel Came on Does God Exist
Via Wintery Knight who helpfully provides notes on this 2017 debate in Ireland.
New atheist Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) on fine-tuning of the universe
He found fine-tuning of the universe a reasonable argument against his position. In the meantime, new atheism has become the godlessness that failed.
Commentator Dinesh D’Souza on paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould’s directionless evolution
D’Souza: Here I refute Stephen Jay Gould’s argument that the pattern of evolution reveals no purpose or direction.
Apparently, some scientists are questioning the “anti-God” stance
An “anti-God” stance is, in some ways, more complex and less satisfactory than a conventional “pro-God” stance.
What we don’t know about the universe, according to New Scientist
Back to Georges Lemaitre, a Catholic priest: A CENTURY ago, if you asked a cosmologist the universe’s age, the answer may well have been “infinite”. It was a neat way to sidestep the question of how it formed, and the idea had been enshrined in 1917 when Albert Einstein presented his model of a static Read More…
Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne continues to worry about astrology, this time at the New York Times
He seems to have started noticing recently when astrology was touted at the Guardian and the Globe and Mail: In the past couple of days we’ve seen the Guardian tout astrology twice, and now the Globe and Mail. What I’d forgotten is that the New York Times has also been doing it occasionally—certainly more often Read More…
Fun: Dinesh D’Souza imagines himself as Ditchard Rawkins
Readers, is this fair? If so, can he also do Daniel Dennett?
National rollout of John Lennox’s Against the Tide movie expanded to 3 nights
Blurb: Against the Tide is a travelogue, an examination of modern science, an excursion into history, an autobiography, and more. But at heart, it is the story of one man’s daring stand against the tide of contemporary atheism and its drive to relegate belief in God to society’s catalogue of dead ideas.
Oxford mathematician John Lennox on the atheists that made him sweat
Lennox: When I did that first debate with Richard Dawkins, there was a huge concern that I’m stepping out into the arena, into the lion’s den…
A petition is going the rounds urging that Richard Dawkins be allowed to speak at Trinity College
ID types are urging people to sign the petition. Sign it if you like Uncommon Descent. Because we are just so NOT Cancel Culture.
Richard Dawkins is getting canceled again
Apparently, when Richard Dawkins said he was an atheist, some people didn’t realize that he rejected Islam along with Christianity. The stark reality is that the post-Christian student does not want to win a debate but rather to cancel it.
Jonathan McLatchie interviews Christian rocker Jon Steingard, who “no longer believes in God”
McLatchie: We had a two hour conversation about the evidences for God and for Christianity. It includes discussion of intelligent design which may be of interest.
Atheist taken to task for mangling history
By another atheist, who actually knows a bit of history. The decline of new atheism has resulted in, among other things, atheists having to pick up their game in history.
Atheism detracts from science
Lennox: “naturalism, and therefore atheism, undermines the foundations of the very rationality that is needed to construct or understand or believe in any kind of argument whatsoever, let alone a scientific one. “