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Daily Archives: December 31, 2010
Nightline’s Recent Sam Harris Segment
Pretty interesting:
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Tagged atheism, atheist, gnu atheism, God, morality, religion, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris
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Richard Dawkins v. William Lane Craig: Do You Second That Emotion?
This video rather cleverly (and, I think, fairly) catches out Richard Dawkins evading the substance of William Lane Craig’s debating points, substituting them with the straw man argument that Craig is making merely emotional appeals: And here’s Smokey Robinson (which … Continue reading
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Tagged debate, emotion, God, Jesus, logic, philosophy, psychology, reason, Richard Dawkins
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Free Will Confusion Watch: Gnu Atheist Jerry Coyne Calls Humans Molecular Puppets, Then Endorses Sam Harris’s New Year’s Resolution
In a blog post this past summer, evolutionary biologist, Jerry Coyne, didn’t flinch at spelling out the implications of strict naturalism for the idea of free will: We simply don’t like to think that we’re molecular automatons, and so we adopt a … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, determinism, free will, jerry coyne, monism, psychology, Richard Dawkins, strict materialism, strict naturalism
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Change Your Mind, Change Your Brain?
This was in the Los Angeles Times this past month: For the Trappist monks at the Abbey of New Clairvaux, life follows a pattern centuries old. They spend their days in the field and their nights in silence. They gather in prayer … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 