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No, I’m Not An Atheist By Faith, Here Are My Arguments.

June 29, 2010 – 10:46 am

Yesterday Ron Rosenbaum aggressively attacked atheism and defended agnosticism in Slate. He starts out with the familiar charge that atheists have “faith”. But faith in what? Atheists display a credulous and childlike faith, worship a certainty as yet unsupported by evidence—the certainty that they can or will be able to explain how and why the [...]

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Mr. Deity Tries To Find Time To Make Time

February 8, 2010 – 11:01 pm

I don’t know if I’ve seen such a well-scripted bit of comdy about metaphysics and cosmology before: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ujpzdeolA&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?

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By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Comedy, Hilarious, Metaphysics, Mr. Deity, New Atheism, Parody, Physics, Religion and Science, Satire, Videos | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Debunking A Creationist Documentary Error By Error

September 19, 2009 – 5:09 pm

djarm67, a scientifically literate theist, presents the creationist A Questions of Origins while correcting each distortion, oversimplification, and error as it occurs: There are six parts, watch them all if you have the time. Your Thoughts?

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Definitions, Maths, Big Bang, and Fables

September 7, 2009 – 12:12 pm

Some nice meat and potatoes refutation of predictable Christian arguments.  What I found worth highlighting in particular here on the blog was akegg’s adept way of addressing the question of what the Big Bang is said to demonstrate. Your Thoughts?

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Physicist Steven Weinberg On The Question Of God

September 5, 2009 – 11:15 am

Your Thoughts?

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By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, God, Physics, Religion and Science, Science | Tagged | Comments (0)

On The Possible God Of Philosophy And Cosmology Vs. The Personal, Historical God Of Faith

September 5, 2009 – 12:39 am

This post is inspired by some excellent remarks from Daniel Dennett in reply to William Lane Craig’s vigorous cosmological arguments for the existence of God (which you can see him make in a separate debate here).  Here is the Dennett video, below it you’ll find a rough transcript I have produced of it, and then [...]

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By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Atheism, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, Faith, Featured, God, Philosophy, Religion, Videos, Why I Am Not A Christian | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Is The Idea Of "Nothing" Illusory?

August 25, 2009 – 6:40 am

I was thinking about the argument for the existence of God that hinges on the question of how something could come from nothing.  And I wondered, is nothing even an intelligible concept?  Everything we experience is something. We have a concept of zero since we can imagine there being zero of some particular thing either [...]

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Richard Dawkins on "Thinking The Improbable"

August 3, 2009 – 2:10 pm

A captivating lecture: Your Thoughts?

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By Daniel Fincke | Also posted in Biology, Evolution, Physics, Probability, Science | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Richard Dawkins Interviews Jesuit Astronomer Father George Coyne

July 23, 2009 – 8:06 am

An utterly fascinating dialogue, Coyne throughout is a novel, deeply scientifically informed, and riveting thinker and Dawkins puts exactly the right questions and brief challenges to him.  Watch all 7 parts, they’re great. Your Thoughts?

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Debunking Creationists: Water

July 21, 2009 – 12:27 pm
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