Atheism
Atheists suffer apocalypse anxiety too, it seems
Darwinian philosopher on finding meaning in life without God.
Making a mess of understanding eternity
Disproofs of God’s existence are falling on hard times these days
Michael Egnor: Jerry Coyne confirms a hypothesis about secular religion
Jerry Coyne vents about David Klinghoffer
Researchers: Rise in “religious Nones” masks growth in evangelicalism
At Quillette: Is secular humanism a religion?
Logic & First Principles, 16: The problem of playing God (when we don’t — cannot — know how)
In discussing the attempted brain hacking of monkeys, I made a comment about refraining from playing God. This sparked a sharp reaction, then led to an onward exchange. This puts on the table the captioned issue . . . which it seems to me is properly part of our ongoing logic and first principles reflections. Here, the other big piece of axiology (the study of the valuable) ethics, with side-orders of limitations in epistemology. So, kindly allow me to headline: KF, 10: >>It is interesting what sparked the sharpness of exchange above: KF: Playing God without his knowledge base, wisdom and benevolence is asking for trouble. A78 is right: all I’m saying is proceed with caution we shouldn’t play God Read More ›
Logic spaghetti: Who created God?
Atheist public intellectual John Gray separates the atheist wheat from the chaff
Templeton winner: Atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method
Neuroskeptic: Atheists are NOT genetically damaged
Harry’s food for thought on “Materialistic Scientism Is Fundamentally Irrational”
This is the first of two food for thought pieces coming from comments in the scientism thread: Harry, 7: >>Materialistic Scientism Is Fundamentally Irrational In order to demonstrate how a given instance of functional complexity might come about mindlessly and accidentally, one must first know how to create it intentionally. Then, one can at least begin to explain how the required steps in the functional-complexity-assembling procedure might, over enough time, happen mindlessly, accidentally, and in the necessary sequence, through some combination of chance and the laws of physics. So, until science knows how to create life – an instance of massive functional complexity – from scratch, they are in no position to insist that it came about mindlessly and accidentally Read More ›