Estranged Notions: Does Conscience Point Towards the Existence of God?

Tuesday's post:

Does Conscience Point Towards the Existence of God?

Estranged Notions: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?

Today's post:

Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?

In which our favourite practitioner of non-evidence-based medicine spews a lot of nonsense.

Estranged Notions: How to Prove that God Doesn’t Exist

Today's post:

How to Prove that God Doesn’t Exist

Estranged Notions: Where is God? The Problem of Divine Hiddenness

Today's post:

Where is God? The Problem of Divine Hiddenness

A remarkably lame list of excuses for the lack of evidence.

Estranged Notions: An Agnostic’s Assessment Of New Atheist Attitudes

Today's post:

An Agnostic’s Assessment Of New Atheist Attitudes

The agnostic in question is John Humphrys, veteran BBC presenter and journalist (and terror of politicians). One might possibly have hoped for a bit less of the strawman approach when dealing with the ‘New Atheists’, but I'm not sure how much of this is down to Nelson's reporting.

Estranged Notions: Is God Too Complex To Be The Creator?

Today's post:

Is God Too Complex To Be The Creator?

This is just the old canard about ‘divine simplicity’. Unfortunately, these days we have better definitions of simplicity, and handwaving by defining God as a mind with no parts is no longer a believable approach.

(Also, it's worth noting that the idea of an absolute beginning to the universe is if anything less strongly supported now than in the past; the latest results are consistent with theories of eternal inflation—which, contra some apologetic claims, are not ruled out by the BGV theorem, and indeed Guth (the G of BGV) is on record as regarding eternal inflation as the most likely result.)

Estranged Notions: Is the Catholic Church a Force for Good?

Yesterday's post:

Is the Catholic Church a Force for Good?

What a mess.

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.