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Daily Archives: September 29, 2009
The Hamlet Syndrome (“to go or not to go”): Should I Attend the International Atheist Conference This Weekend in Burbank, California?
Dang! Check out the speaker line-up for the International Atheist Conference being held in Burbank, California this weekend! It’s close to where I live. And it’s at the same Marriot Convention Center as the UFO conference that I went to just a … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, atheist, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, russell blackford, Sam Harris
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The Richard Dawkins Delusion is Coming to LaLa Land
Biologist Richard Dawkins, the author of the God Delusion, will be coming to speak (in early October) in my neck of the woods (Southern California), and his soon visit prompts me to ask a simple question: What might it actually … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Charles Darwin, evolution, God, Los Angeles, philosophy, psychology, religion, Richard Dawkins, science
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What Agnosticism Means to Me (and Why I’m Not an Atheist)
I think my agnosticism extends, when it really comes down to it, to keeping an open mind to the possibility that mind precedes matter in some fashion—or even that there might be something recognizably human at the end of the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, biology, God, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, universe
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Rick Strassman, a Pioneer in the Field of DMT Research, on the Pineal Gland and Near Death Experiences
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Tagged altered states, consciousness, dmt, hallucinogens, life after death, near-death experiences, philosophy
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Evil is the Shadow Cast in the Very Creation of the Universe?
Does God, by his (or her) very existence, necessarily cast an evil shadow? And does the creation, to even exist, cast an evil shadow? The youthful Einstein’s observation (echoing Thomas Aquinas) strikes me as very close to the gnostic idea that … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, einstein, God, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, theodicy
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These Three are One? The Theological, Philosophical, and Scientific Mind
I don’t know who made the above video, but I find it moving, and I like the take-away message from it. The philosophical questions of religion, because they dwell upon issues of infinity and moral reasoning, can assist in the … Continue reading
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Tagged albert einstein, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Catholic, children, philosophy, Protestant, psychology, religious schools, science
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