Atheism
William Lane Craig’s UK tour (October 17-26) next-to-final itinerary
Intuitive people more likely to believe in God?
Controversial study links atheism to autism
Just in: Atheist chides New Atheists for narrow fanaticism; also, water now runs downhill
Just in: Remember that Brit who complained about Dawkins’ “trash theists” interview, where the interviewer joined in …?
For Dawkins, bashing orthodoxy would actually be a new experience
BBC responds to viewer’s complaint about Paxman and Dawkin’s two-man hatefest
Researchers: It’s not that young people today are immoral – it’s that they can’t recognize moral questions at all
Formal complaint to BBC News: I would expect (news host Paxman) to interview, not cheer on Prof Dawkins
Richard Dawkins interviewed on his new children’s book
Michael Shermer of Skeptic magazine vs. “turtles all the way down . . .”
UD’s resident journalist, Mrs Denise O’Leary, notes on how Mr Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine and Scientific American (etc.) has written on his new book, The Believing Brain: Why Science Is the Only Way Out of Belief-Dependent Realism:
. . . skepticism is a sine qua non of science, the only escape we have from the belief-dependent realism trap created by our believing brains.
While critical awareness — as opposed to selective hyperskepticism — is indeed important for serious thought in science and other areas of life, Mr Shermer hereby reveals an unfortunate ignorance of basic epistemology, the logic of warrant and the way that faith and reason are inextricably intertwined in the roots of our worldviews.
To put it simply, he has a “turtles all the way down” problem:
