Pagans—the word is not an insult—believed that God was immanent. If you’ve seen Star Wars, you have it. “The Force” was God, and The Force was everything. To quote that most eminent […]
That IQ And Atheism Study
A lovely, but not at all unexpected conceit, held firmly by a certain sort of atheist, is that he has based his non-belief on his superior intelligence. He quotes, “A fool says […]
Relevance, Tolerance, And Vanishing Christianity
From Tim Stanley of the Telegraph: America’s liberal Christians might be progressive and inclusive, but they are also dying out. The marketing mantra of liberal Christianity is “change or die.” Here’s the […]
Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part Last: Skulls Full Of Nothing
Don’t Think Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. Buy the book ($12.92 as of last glance). There is a curious phenomenon […]
Reasoning To Belief: Feser’s The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism — Part VI: Akin And Abortion After Rape
Stop in the name of the Law! Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last. Earlier this month, Missouri Congressman Todd Akin uttered […]
The Dire And Depressing Implications Of Science As Scientism: Two Introductions
A long introduction… Scientism is the fallacy that all that is known and all that can be known, can only be known through scientific methods: that which is testable is all that […]
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 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 […]
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