The following question was posed at the (inaptly named) magazine Scientific American, “Is there a difference between the brain of an atheist and the brain of a religious person?” It was asked […]
Science Explains Belief In God Through Genetics
Let’s look at “Life’s Extremes: Atheists vs. Believers”, a piece on Live Science (the home of unexpurgated university press releases; hat tip to HotAir). The article is itself slight—it begins by informing […]
Do Americans Still Dislike Atheists?
The answer is: Americans hate atheists just as much as they hate theists. Residents of these grand United States had always disliked prigs of any stripe and are not shy about saying […]
Religion May Become Extinct, Experts
In 1850 in the Netherlands nearly everybody was a Christian. A century later, three out of four said they still were. But if you believe mathematicians Daniel Abrams and Haley Yaple and […]
Do only the less intelligent write papers about theists being less intelligent?
There are some new statistical papers floating around that conclude that the more intelligent among us tend to be atheists. An equivalent, but more enjoyable, way of stating this is that dumber […]
What Do Philosophers Believe? Survey: Part II
Read Part I. Epistemic justification: internalism or externalism? 43% went with externalism, about 26% with internalism. It is impossible to write about this without sounding goofy or repetitive. Briefly, internalism means you […]
New Term For “Brights” Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins
A New Name The “brights” are at it again. What is a “bright”? It is not, as is by now well known to contemporary thinkers, the opposite of a “dim”, a “dark”, […]
The impossibility of there being no truth.
One of the premises frequently used for the argument that “all cultures are equal” (multiculturalism), or for the argument that you should not be judgmental, is relativism, which is the idea that […]
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