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At Salon: New Atheists accused of intellectual grift and abject surrender

Torres makes quite clear that, to get on at Salon, you’d have to be a stiletto Stalinist. The new atheists have the advantage of at least being interesting people.
Hey, we’ve always given them that. And who cares about Salon anyhow?

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Coffee!!: A grievance studies hoaxer explains what happened to the New Atheists

We miss the New Atheists. They made absolutely everyone else look so sane and reasonable.

Seversky EDTA/4 Yeah, I hope humanist philosophers are daily taking a cold, hard look at humanity’s reality. I would hope so... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
Seversky Maybe they fished for coelocanths – Early humans at Gobekli Tepe did...
Seversky I wonder what coelacanths taste like? – At Science: Coelacanths could live to...
AaronS1978 @ ChuckyD No matter how much you deny it evolution is your god of gaps it literally does the same... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
bornagain77 Jerry, "A “God of the Gaps” assessment is a logical fallacy. It is form of begging the question. It assumes... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
EDTA >" Some investigators are even experimentally recreating 12,000-year-old meals using methods from that time." We had those in my college... – Early humans at Gobekli Tepe did...
AaronS1978 https://neurosciencenews.com/genetics-aging-bacteria-18799/?fbclid=IwAR3-fBXPh41fDstFAxhfVnMN7xWxLI2-VupXjXfGig4T69hLGq6BeyH9I3o This relates a little bit of the topic above and I found it quite interesting – Surprise, surprise, the aging process is...
jerry A “God of the Gaps” assessment is a logical fallacy. It is form of begging the question. It assumes a... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
Sandy Really? Come on….. :)) This is all materialists have. How in the world they don't hear the irony alarm. – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
chuckdarwin #13 John Lennox is an affable, somewhat impish purveyor of bromides. "God is not a ‘God of the gaps’ but... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
Sandy propensity to import non-empirical explanations :)) Best explanation is the point of reference not materialist-naturalist dogma. Science is limited ,it's... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
bornagain77 Chuckdarwin claims that Meyer is making a "repackaged god of the gaps" argument. It might interest Chucky to know, (or... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
Sandy Chuckdarwin No matter how much Meyer denies it, his “thesis” is simply repackaged god of the gaps… You are an... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
chuckdarwin #8 Kairosfocus When Charles S. Pierce, arguably America's greatest logician, innovated abductive reasoning (which is what Meyer touts using), he... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
Querius Japanese Koi live typically 25-35 years, but the celebrated Japanese scarlet koi, Hanako, lived to see her 226th birthday as... – At Science: Coelacanths could live to...
kairosfocus Martin-R I have utterly zero interest in loaded language debates starting with Anti-X'ers. I am highlighting that if there is... – Human cells write RNA sequences into...
kairosfocus CD, fallacious switcheroo; actually no matter how you package it your refusal to acknowledge cogency of inference on tested reliable... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
kairosfocus Jerry, hence, logic of being [yes, in the L&FP series], investigated from our participation in a going concern world. KF – Celebrity physicists are in a row...
chuckdarwin No matter how much Meyer denies it, his "thesis" is simply repackaged god of the gaps... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
mohammadnursyamsu The God hypothesis is wrong, he should instead generically refer to "the creator hypothesis", or "intelligent designer hypothesis". Because by... – Humanist philosopher James Croft goes after...
polistra Quite a few "modern" fish lack a time limit. If they escape predators and disease, they just keep going. – At Science: Coelacanths could live to...