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Approaching a Middle East peace
Came across this song of Tim Minchen’s Peace Anthem For Palestine. Actually think he might be on to something
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Science and the ’supernatural’
I have discussed the issue of “supernaturalism” and science before but return to it having just read Can Science Test Supernatural Worldviews? by Dr Yonatan I. Fishman. It’s an excellent paper...
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William Lane Craig’s ’logic’
I don’t know how long this video will survive on YouTube. It’s a takeoff of William Lane Craig and his “logic.” Apparently Craig has made several attempts to remove it. Personally, I think there is...
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Compulsory payments for advancement of religion — let’s get rid of that.
I read recently how cynically humans use the word “freedom.” (I think it was in Jennifer Michael Hecht‘s Doubt: A History) How often do you see a fascist or otherwise undemocratic organisation with...
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How do you know that?
PZ Myer at Pharyngula has produced another of his gems. A letter to a nine-year old girl who had been fooled by the creationist Ken Ham to think the question “Were you there?” is a clever response to...
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Ethicists have problems with ethics!
I picked up this article recently – The Self-Reported Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors. So I couldn’t help laughing when I came across this other one – When Scientists Make Bad Ethicists. A title...
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Approaching morality scientifically
Yeah, right! So why leave morality to theologians? In his recent criticism of Jerry Coyne’s* USA Today article As atheists know, you can be good without God, local theologian Matt Flannagan repeats...
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Historians of science sometimes miss the wood for the trees
I came across this nice little quote recently:* Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. It’s attributed to Imre Lakatos,...
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You CAN be good with God!
OK – we have become used to the slogan “You can be good without God.” Versions of it have popped up all around the world over the last few years. Even in little old New Zealand. It’s really only...
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So you think science has a problem?
There are a number of opinion piece writers, usually philosophers of religion or accomadationist atheist philosophers who really hate today’s vocal atheists. Particularly if those atheists are also...
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