Today's post:
Blah blah ground of existence blah blah revelation blah blah.
Friday, 30 May 2014
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Estranged Notions: Do ‘Religiously Knowledgeable’ Atheists Believe in God?
Today's post:
Do ‘Religiously Knowledgeable’ Atheists Believe in God?
Short version: survey statistics are not worth much, especially in fringe small-N subcategories of larger surveys. (A proportion — sometimes a nontrivial one — of any survey sample are people giving a purely random or maliciously hostile response; for unpopular or socially marginalized beliefs this can easily skew the results. It has also been found that Americans overstate their religious observance and beliefs to pollsters.)
Friday, 23 May 2014
Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Estranged Notions: 10 Atheists Who Engage Religion Charitably
Today's post:
10 Atheists Who Engage Religion Charitably
More of the "good" vs. "bad" atheist drivel.
Monday, 19 May 2014
Friday, 16 May 2014
Estranged Notions: Faith and Unbelief: An Interview with Dr. Stephen Bullivant (Video)
And today we have another video without transcript:
Faith and Unbelief: An Interview with Dr. Stephen Bullivant (Video)
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Estranged Notions: What is an ad hominem fallacy?
Today's post is an especially pointless contribution (taken) from Feser:
What is an ad hominem fallacy?
Good content getting hard to find perhaps?
Monday, 12 May 2014
Sunday, 11 May 2014
Contingency and the Fallacy of Composition
(Intended to be part 1 of a short series on contingency arguments)
The Argument from Contingency
Sketched out, the Argument from Contingency is along these lines:
- Things are either logically necessary or contingent.
- Contingent things require an explanation, which must ultimately lead to a necessary thing (rather than a loop of contingent things or an infinite regress).
- Contingent things exist.
- Therefore at least one necessary thing exists.
- Everything in the physical universe is contingent.
- Therefore the physical universe itself is also contingent.
- Therefore the necessary thing is separate from the physical universe, and the theist then asserts it to be God.
Every step of this argument is open to serious criticism, but for the purposes of this post I'm going to focus on steps 5 and 6.
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Estranged Notions: Why It’s Okay To Speak Religiously in the Face of Tragedy
Today's post is from one of the more offensive bloggers in the Catholic blogiverse:
Monday, 5 May 2014
Saturday, 3 May 2014
Estranged Notions: Why It’s Okay to be Against Heresy and for Imposing One’s Will on Others
Today's post probably should be up for some sort of WTFtitle award:
Why It’s Okay to be Against Heresy and for Imposing One’s Will on Others
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