Today's post:
Atheism and the Personal Pronoun
More lame attempts to ‘refute’ materialism using trivial arguments about consciousness.
Friday, 30 January 2015
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Estranged Notions: Why Having a Heart of Gold is Not What Christianity is About
Today's post:
Why Having a Heart of Gold is Not What Christianity is About
So apparently Christianity isn't about ethics but rather “the explosive emergence of a new world”. 2000 years on, and the same old world is turning just as it always did. Isn't this argument starting to wear a bit thin?
Monday, 26 January 2015
Estranged Notions: Science Reveals Who We Are is Determined by How We Are
Today's post:
Science Reveals Who We Are is Determined by How We Are
Misrepresents the science, and goes downhill from there.
Friday, 23 January 2015
Estranged Notions: Why the Church is Ahead of Mathematicians on Ecumenical Dialogue
Today's post is from Stacy Trasancos:
Why the Church is Ahead of Mathematicians on Ecumenical Dialogue
Even by previous standards this one is bad, equating a trivial descriptive diagram with an actual predictive model.
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
A year of Notional Estrangement
The Great Purge was a year ago today (give or take some hours either way).
Stats since then: over 157 thousand pageviews, over 17 thousand comments.
So consider this a feedback thread (not an open thread, I'm leaving the existing one of those open). Anything I should do differently?
Estranged Notions: Does Everything Happen for a Reason?
Today's post:
Does Everything Happen for a Reason?
Starts off by answering the wrong question, then proceeds to deploy argument by assertion (“God does X” ... yes, and you know this how?).
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Estranged Notions: The Real War on Science
Bit of an oddball article this time around:
I'd sum this one up as “likes mathematical models and demarcating science from metaphysics, dislikes Big Data and string theory”. On demarcating science and metaphysics he rightly says that Aristotle made no such distinction; but apparently fails to miss that the demarcation in modern times is demanded not by scientists, but by philosophers and theologians in order to protect their metaphysical territory from the incursion of awkward scientific facts.
Friday, 16 January 2015
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Estranged Notions: What Questions Do You Have for Catholics and Atheists?
No real content today, just a request for questions for a Q&A series:
Monday, 12 January 2015
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