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I recently asked in a comment:
- Why do religious schools pretend to offer "tenure" to professors?
- Why does anyone believe them when they do?
Showing posts with label belief. Show all posts
Showing posts with label belief. Show all posts
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Estranged Notions: And This All Men Call God
Monday, 16 November 2015
Friday, 13 November 2015
Estranged Notions: Does the Bible Say All Atheists are Intellectually Dishonest?
Today's post:
Does the Bible Say All Atheists are Intellectually Dishonest?
This is another round in the argument with Koukl over Romans 1:18ff, and at this stage it descends into argument about whether the passages in question actually support Koukl's position. The alternative view (which I linked in the earlier post on this argument) of how to construe the Greek text (in the absence of punctuation) is of course not addressed.
Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Estranged Notions: Do Atheists Simply Repress Their Knowledge of God?
Today's post:
Do Atheists Simply Repress Their Knowledge of God?
This is Feser's corner of a recent multi-way argument between apologist Greg Koukl, Randal Rauser, Feser, and atheist Jeff Lowder. Unsurprisingly Feser thinks that the Thomist perspective is the only right answer, but at least he has the apparent intellectual honesty to reject Koukl's nonsense.
But there's a wildcard in here that I didn't see mentioned by anyone involved. (I'd skimmed parts of this exchange on Rauser's blog and links before seeing this post). Koukl is using the usual “without excuse” clobber passage from Romans 1:18-20:
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Wednesday, 24 June 2015
Estranged Notions: The Dogmas and Failure of Rational Atheism
Today's post:
The Dogmas and Failure of Rational Atheism
Usual drivel. Criticizes Harris' The End Of Faith as though it were the be-all and end-all of atheist criticism of religion; spouts typical nonsense about things like the Golden Rule (which predates not only Christianity but even Judaism, and was independently stated in philosophies such as Confucianism) and the consequences of atheism.
Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Estranged Notions: Why Atheists Change Their Mind: 8 Common Factors
Today's post (or yesterday's by the time I'm done with this):
Why Atheists Change Their Mind: 8 Common Factors
There's a whole list of things wrong with this article, unsurprisingly. It's a typical religious apologist's view of conversion that prefers anecdote to facts.
Monday, 27 April 2015
Friday, 16 January 2015
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Estranged Notions: Do Catholics Know Their Theology is Correct?: A Response
Vogt responds to Dillon:
Do Catholics Know Their Theology is Correct?: A Response
Not much here: theologians generally agree on the stuff that they would get marginalized, expelled or excommunicated (or in past centuries, executed) for disagreeing with; “natural theology” (as if people didn't read their preconceptions of God into what they find in nature); etc.
Monday, 29 December 2014
Estranged Notions: Do Catholics Know That Their Theology is Correct?
Well, that law about headline questions seems to be going strong:
Friday, 12 December 2014
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Estranged Notions: From Faith to Atheism: An Interview with Doug Shaver
Today, an interview with an atheist commenter for a change:
Monday, 27 October 2014
Estranged Notions: Do Atheists Believe in God After All?
Today's post:
Do Atheists Believe in God After All?
A pretty silly study on the whole; the issues of small sample size and high variance have already been pointed out by PBR. Even Horn spots the methodological issue of not using a known-nonexistent deity or similar as a control (to which I'd add, they should also have considered using one from a culture foreign to the study participants).
A possibly more serious issue is the issue of conflation of "believe" and "have an emotional reaction to", the problem with which should be obvious.
Horn also demonstrates his ignorance of the nature of delusions (quoting the idiotic "poached egg" comparison). This is best answered with this piece from Scott Alexander.
Friday, 24 October 2014
Monday, 20 October 2014
Thursday, 9 October 2014
Monday, 15 September 2014
Estranged Notions: Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
Today's post, in which Longenecker defends his position in the previous post:
Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
His defense is of course hopeless, but I suppose he at least gets credit for trying.
Friday, 12 September 2014
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