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Daily Archives: August 6, 2009
Five Years Ago This Month: Deere and Deer in Yosemite Valley (August, 2004)
Francis Bacon (from his 1625 essay “Of Nature in Men”): Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. Force maketh nature more violent in the return. And this from Emerson’s “Self Reliance” (1841): Power is in nature the … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, deer, Emerson, francis bacon, John Muir, man and nature, national parks, science, technology, Yosemite
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Pretty Good Reasons to Believe in God Watch: Atheism’s Guilt Problem
What, you say? Atheists, of all people, surely don’t have a problem with guilt. They can cuss, smoke, and masturbate to their hearts’ content, not feeling morally supervised by disapproving and invisible eyes. They can read any book they want. … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, Camus, God, guilt, philosophy, pretty good reasons to believe in god, religion, responsibility, Sartre
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Pretty Good Reasons Not to Believe in God Watch: Guilt Free Atheism?
There are definitely problems with the following argument, but it nevertheless seems (for a lot of people) a rather strong utilitarian reason for becoming an atheist: Guilt free sensual and intellectual indulgence. Most theistic religions are, to put it politely, … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, apologetics, atheism, atheist, forgiveness, God, life, philosophy, Prometheus, religion
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Pretty Good Reasons Not to Believe in God Watch: God’s Apparent Dilly Dallying in Getting Us Here
As an agnostic, I would offer the following as a pretty good reason not to believe that God exists, and for being an atheist (were I so inclined): If God exists, and if one of God’s chief purposes for creating the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, creation, God, philosophy, psychology, religion, the universe, theism
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Pretty Good Reasons to Believe in God Watch: Death Fear Reduction
As an agnostic, I would offer the following as a pretty good utilitarian reason for believing in God, and to not be an atheist (were one so inclined): For a lot of people, belief in God appears to reduce the fear of death, and it … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, atheism, atheist, death, faith, god belief, Islam, Jesus, Judaism, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
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Prometheus Unbound 