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Out of Thin Air
After a life of football, Joe Namath fears he has brain damage. But he's sold on a dubious treatment -- and wants others to buy in too. By Peter Keating.
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6 (Unlikely) Developments That Could Convince This Atheist To Believe in God
Atheists often point out that religious faith is closed off to evidence that contradicts it. What evidence would persuade atheists that their atheism was mistaken?
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Debate Review: Matt Dillahunty vs. Blake Giunta
After hearing that Matt Dillahunty was debating Blake Giunta, I was excited to see a YouTube video of the debate go up and had it on as background for work this morning.
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Answers in Genesis explains "Were you there?"
One of the common tactics of believers in Young Earth Creationism, and devotees of Answers in Genesis, is to reply to statements about evolution with the question, “Were you there?” Ken Ham has been pushing this approach since at least 1989, and it’s dishonest horseshit, as I’ve explained at length.
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No, It’s Not Your Opinion. You’re Just Wrong
I have had so many conversations or email exchanges with students in the last few years wherein I anger them by indicating that simply saying, "This is my opinion" does not preclude a connected statement from being dead wrong. It still baffles me that some feel those four words somehow give them carte blanche to spout batshit oratory or prose. And it really scares me that some of those students think education that challenges their ideas is equivalent to an attack on their beliefs. -Mick Cullen
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It Happened To Me: I Was A Telephone Psychic For Miss Cleo
A young woman's experience as a psychic hotline operator.
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The Mysterious Oxfordshire Sheep Panic of 1888
“The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same” - Stendhal. Sheep aren’t stupid. They’re almost as smart as pigs, and at about the same level as cattle. Sure, they won’t be writing any heartbreaking novels of staggering genius or winning on Jeopardy anytime soon...
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Boston Skeptics in the Pub - Larry Gilbertson - June 22, 2015
Dr Larry Gilbertson speaks about the science of GMOs and the research at Monsanto Company. He is also joined by Mary Mangan to answers questions collected from skeptics via social media, facilities, as well as from the audience in the room.
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Intelligence, Atheism and Culture
When someone tells me that religious people have lower intelligence than atheists, I translate that immediately into “Well-off people with some economic stability and access to higher education are less dependent on the social safety net religion provides.” That’s all it really means.
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Am I evil for pointing out that Jesus was evil?
We live in a world where outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins gets called “militant” for using mere words and accurately describing the Bible god as “genocidal,” but where Jesus gets called “The Prince of Peace” for endorsing the Old Testament theocracy that was actually genocidal and for promising to personally commit atrocities infinitely worse than every 20th century dictator *combined.*
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More Atheist Leaders Who Aren't Dawkins or Harris: Alix Jules
This week’s profile/interview: Alix Jules. Jules is President of Black Non-Believers of Dallas (BNOD), an organization created to provide networking opportunities for nonbelieving peoples of color. It is open to everyone; however, its focus is to provide a safe space for godless black and brown nonbelievers. They provide a southern beacon to our friends in shared disbelief, reminding them they’re not alone.
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Gospels vs. the Perfect Miracle Claim
Try to imagine the most compelling miracle story possible. Here’s one; tell me what you think: I met Jesus yesterday. At first, I didn’t believe who he was, but he turned my lawn furniture from steel into gold. I just got back from a dealer who assayed the furniture, confirmed that it was solid gold, and bought it. Over 200 pounds of gold at $1355 per ounce works out to be close to $4.5 million. Guess who’s a believer now!
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The Plan | The Atheist Pig
God has a plan for everyone.
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Losing Faith
'Atheism happened to me when I wasn’t looking. Theism happened to me when I wasn’t thinking.' A timeline of some key memories around my personal experience of religion, running from my earliest memories to my emergence from it into atheism.
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The Dragon In My Garage
Suppose (I'm following a group therapy approach by the psychologist Richard Franklin) I seriously make such an assertion to you. Surely you'd want to check it out, see for yourself. There have been innumerable stories of dragons over the centuries, but no real evidence. What an opportunity!
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Edgy Deepak Chopra makes a fool of himself, again
Deepak Chopra is mad about being called an evolution denialist, and to disprove the accusation, he fires back with a whole long letter full of misconceptions about evolution. As usual, he relies on painting himself as the brave pioneer at the very edge of science, with a hooting mob of regressive scientific dogmatists haranguing him.
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Respecting Beliefs
TheraminTrees offers an explanation of why he doesn't subscribe to the view that 'we should all respect each other's beliefs.'
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Baloney Detection Kit
Based on the book "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark" published by Headline 1996. The following are suggested as tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or fraudulent arguments:
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Evaluating Personal Experience
There are sound reasons for preferring the data from randomized, double-blind, controlled experiments to the data provided by anecdotes when we are searching for causes. Even well-educated, highly trained experts are subject to many perceptual, affective, and cognitive biases that lead us into error when evaluating personal experiences.
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An Index to Creationist Claims
The most comprehensive index of claims made by creationists regarding biology, cosmology, evolution and geology to be found on the web. If a creationist makes a claim to you, the rebuttal is likely to be found here.
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