Review: Unscientific America
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum are liars, with a severely warped moral compas, and I would rather the fundamentalist approach to science win out in America, than that their approach to science...
View ArticleWhy religion is growing in Africa
Fear and greed says PZ. One of the more important PZ posts I’ve read.
View ArticleContempt for philosophy breeds contempt for thinking
Chris Mooney has been promoting a post by Scienceblogger Chad Orzel on the science/religion issue, declaring “Orzel nails it.” I think Orzel’s piece is interesting for an entirely different reason: it...
View ArticleEvangelicals and the death of Antony Flew
Earlier this month (April 8th, to be exact), Antony Flew died. The best thing I’ve seen on his death is by Keith Parsons: I rank Flew as second only to Bertrand Russell as a writer of pellucid, witty,...
View ArticleTone vs. Content
Russell Blackford has a post arguing that tone is important, even if a lot of the things people say about tone are foolish: For these sorts of reasons, intelligent discussion of tone is always in...
View ArticleWilliam Lane Craig is a charlatan
Oh my science. From Luke Muehlhauser: Honestly, in a lot of debates with atheists, it’s William Lane Craig who is being more logical and more faithful to the arguments than the atheist opponent is. A...
View ArticleMore on Luke’s endorsement of William Lane Craig
I’ve said that I don’t think William Lane Craig deserves the praise that Luke Muehlhauser has heaped on him. But in my previous post on the subject, I said have less than I could have about why I’m not...
View ArticleHow William Lane Craig misleads his followers
Ever since going to the Harris-Craig debate, Craig has been on my mind an awful lot. There’s one thing I’ve alluded to here and here, and meant to do a post on, but kept putting off: the fact that...
View ArticleBiblical scholars are not a bunch of baffled skeptics (also: Craig lies about...
William Lane Craig would like you to believe that Biblical scholarship is made up of people who accept that all the major details of the Biblical story of Jesus’ resurrection are facts, who accept that...
View ArticleIt’s not about tone
I’ve written before about the relationship between content and tone, but there’s an angle I didn’t cover there: when people respond to criticisms of their content by saying “he shouldn’t complain about...
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