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There Is No Ghost In The Brain
As long as the nature of consciousness will remain a mystery, we will be in the grip of anxiety. And that is because we are, all of us, haunted by that uniquely human question: what awaits us after death? Although the vast majority of Americans believe in some sort of afterlife, such beliefs are starkly at odds with what neuroscientists know, which is that consciousness is created by the brain and dies with the brain.
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Probabilistic and Logical Errors in Arguments of “Fine-Tuning”
In 1802, when William Paley published Natural Theology, his famous “Watchmaker Argument” became a hallmark formulation of the “Argument from Design,” an argument which attempts to show that the universe must have had a designer.
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Iraq's new atheism in the shadow of Islamic State
Shaho is 29, a government employee. He hunches over some tea, chain-smoking throughout our three hours together. He is this group's founder, and his natural confidence makes him something of a spokesman, too. Several years ago, stuck between the marauding jihadism of IS and the incompetency of the Iraqi government, he set up this symposium, and named it "Logic". The group is an intellectual refuge for Iraq's atheists and secularists, a people denied any official existence by the country's government, and holders of a death sentence courtesy of the Islamic State group.
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The Ideology of the Anti-Gay Movement Is an Ideology of Inconsistency and Hypocrisy
Regardless of the fact that they trip over themselves insisting that their actions and words are not “hatred” or “bigotry”, the anti-gay crusade that calls much of the world home persists in its state of naivety, intolerance, and outright denial of reason and compassion.
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Jack Chick has died
At least I think he has. This from his company Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/chicktracts/photos/a.437041710057.374027.436937560057/10157595360455058/?type=3&theater
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Ancient atheism
I enjoy reading about the metaphysical beliefs of pre-modern peoples, especially those that are iconoclastic with regards to their time period and lay adjacent to the current scientific conception of reality. Roughly contemporary with the Pre-Socratics, a sect of philosophers in Vedic India espoused a view that is recognizably atheist from our modern perspective. I’m referring to the ancient Indian school of Charvaka. I did a search on FtB and it appears no one has written about it. What follows is a brief and very broad synopsis, though every subject briefly described is deserving of far more explication.
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Atheist Debates - You're not an atheist, you're an agnostic
Do the labels matter? What if they get in the way? Weren't we having a great issue-based conversation before you decided to change the topic to the labels?
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Atheist Debates - What does atheism offer?
I've frequently been asked "What does atheism have to offer?" - and it's come up so many times that it seemed like a good idea to offer a little more than the obvious answer.
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Is religion really under threat?
From 2012: A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of secularism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: the pope, politicians from both the Conservative and Labour parties, Melanie Phillips ...
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Cross Ways
A pastor at a Corpus Christi church is on a mission to build “the largest cross in the Western Hemisphere.”
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Christian arguments are just as nebulous as their deity
You want to know what those New Atheists, who are the same as the Old Atheists, are all about? We actually have important questions.
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Excerpt of Sam Harris: God versus Elvis
American Jewish University presents best-selling authors Sam Harris and Rabbi David Wolpe in a debate about the existence of God and the role of religion and faith in society. Sam Harris is a renowned atheist and author of The End of Faith (2004) and Letter to a Christian Nation (2006). Rabbi David Wolpe, of Sinai Temple, is the author of Teaching Your Children About God (1995) and Why Be Jewish? (1995). This debate was moderated by Los Angeles Times religion editor Steve Padilla.
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Mr. Deity and the Job
Mr. Deity thinks he's made a bet with Lucy regarding Job.
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A Less Lonely Way to Lose Your Faith
Where do nonreligious people go to find community? Some might join a sports league or a film society or attend a local atheist meet-up. Some might hang out online. But in certain parts of the country, some might join Oasis, a community of humanists, agnostics, atheists, self-identified freethinkers, and even questioning theists. Oasis members see their fellowship as guided by values that emphasize people’s common humanity, the first being that “people are more important than beliefs.”
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Sean Carroll, Catholicism, & Unfalsifiable Metaphysics
One of the most famous of Thomas Aquinas' arguments is one for a “prime mover” or an “unmoved mover”. The argument itself isn’t really important per-se, it’s actually air tight in terms of premises following to their conclusions. The issue is the Aristotelian metaphysics it assumes and is based on. Suffice it to say, if you’re using the kind of neo-Aristotelian metaphysics favored by modern day Thomists, the conclusion readily follows. What atheists disagree with in terms of the Thomists is the metaphysics they assume.
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Why America’s ‘nones’ left religion behind
With the percentage of U.S. adults who do not identify with a religious group growing, we asked these people to explain, in their own words, why they left.
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Secular US Families Raising Children Without Any Religion
No religion is the new religion. Parents with secular ideas do not force children to follow any specific religion and let them find their own way in life.
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“A Universe That’s Understandable Points to God,” but How Understandable Is the Universe?
Christian apologists point to a universe that is understandable by physics, mathematics, and other disciplines as evidence of God. That kind of order shows the hand of God! But let’s first ask ourselves how understandable the universe actually is.
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Insights into Bible Miracles from Magician Uri Geller
Those who make paranormal claims have a lot to teach us about the Bible and its supernatural claims. The apologetics from both camps are surprisingly similar.
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Happiness is Relative
Religion isn’t all bad. Sometimes false information leads to the correct conclusion or even to good results. Case in point: If you really do believe the Fridge is the one true being we should worship and see it’s power manifest in all our kitchens… If you truly believe the one commandment of the Fridge, a simple “Be Nice” then it follows that you might see another person in distress, remember the words of your cool God, then reach out and do something about it.
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