Orientation quiz. True or false: periodically, some societies have gone insane. The answer is True, true with bells on. Many examples will suggest themselves. Thing about these cultural sanitariums is that most […]
True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism Reviewed
Answer me honestly. How rational is it to believe any of the following: Science can explain everything, even itself; The reason anything exists is because of the laws of gravity, quantum fields, […]
Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity (And Catholicism)
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogcast Summary Against Modern Thought to bring you breaking news: Evolution & The Big Bang Are Perfectly Consistent With Christianity. In what should have been a non-story, […]
Atheism And Its Problem Of Evil
Evil is a problem for atheists because, for them, it does not exist absolutely. But if you are atheist and think it does exist absolutely, let me ask you, What is evil? […]
Jerry Coyne Has A Go At Pope Francis. Shoots Self In Foot
Since it’s Halloween, we may as well examine the spooks, hobgoblins, and bogeymen which taunt and haunt the minds of our public undead, which is to say, our intellectuals. Now no one […]
From Paganism To Christianity To Deism To Malleism
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 […]
Richard Carrier’s Argument To Show God’s Existence Unlikely Is Invalid And Unsound
In the comment section to an earlier piece of mine on Strange Notions, Richard Carrier invited me to “interact” with him through his article “Neither Life nor the Universe Appears Intelligently Designed”, […]
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