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Richard Dawkins v. William Lane Craig (and Daniel Dennett?)
William Lane Craig is a smart guy, and I learn a great deal whenever I read him. He makes me think. I don’t agree with him on a lot of things (most obviously, the veracity of Christianity), but he’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, Daniel Dennett, God, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, william lane craig
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Are Science and Poetry Compatable? Do We Want Them To Be?
It’s sometimes suggested that science and poetry are two ways of looking at the world that really don’t have many points of contact. But, curiously, below is one of the world’s greatest living literary critics, Helen Vendler of Harvard, explaining how her early training … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Dennett, deepities, helen vendler, poetry, religion, Richard Dawkins, science, the ontological mystery, william carlos williams
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Atheism on Trial: Robots v. Fairies?
Atheists tend to be comfortable with one, and only one, irreducible thing in the universe: matter. Matter just is. It has no explanation outside itself, but it’s here; it is its nature to be here. Did it just jump into existence … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, determinism, fairies, free will, God, jerry coyne, robots, strict materialism
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Daniel Dennett v. David Chalmers on consciousness (with Terence McKenna putting in his two cents)
Daniel Dennett deflates consciousness here: __________ David Chalmers inflates it here: __________ And Terence McKenna takes some DMT to break the tie, struggling to share in words, to the uninitiated, the qualia that accompanies ingestion of the chemical.
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Tagged consciousness, Daniel Dennett, david chalmers, dmt, ontological mystery, philosophy, psychology, qualia, terence mckenna, the brain
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What is the Enlightenment’s Distinctive Feature? And What Contemporary Movement is the Enlightenment’s Most Representative Heir?
Zeev Sternhell, in his recent book, The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (Yale 2009), offers reason as the Anglo-French Enlightenment’s distinctive feature, and the ingredient that made for its historic break with the past (41): Criticism of the existing political order, but also criticism … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, hume, New Atheists, philosophy, reason, Richard Dawkins, science, the Enlightenment, Voltaire
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The Contemporary World’s Metaphysical and Epistemic Grand Canyon: Are You a Brooding Romantic or a Rational Universalist?
In his essay, “Grandeur, profundity, and finitude“, atheist pragmatist philosopher, Richard Rorty, tries to walk us back from what he sees as our two chief metaphysical and epistemic precipices: romanticism and rational universalism. He starts with romanticism (84): The romantics became convinced … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, deepities, God, John the Baptist, percy bysshe shelley, poetry, reason, richard rorty, romanticism, science
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Richard Dawkins: Atheist, Evolutionist, Sexist?
In Richard Dawkins’s recent editing of an anthology of modern science writing, a female scientist notices something: Got myself an early yule present today; “The Oxford book of modern science writing” . . . Of 83 texts Professor D has … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, biological determinism, Daniel Dennett, evolution, feminism, freedom, religion, Richard Dawkins, science, women's equality, women's rights
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Was Charles Darwin Responsible for Adolf Hitler’s Ethic?
Obviously not personally, no. Darwin would probably have been appalled at the use that Hitler put his ideas to. But I nevertheless think that it is reasonable to connect the dots of evolutionary theory to Adolf Hitler’s ideology, yes. I do not mean … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin, evolution, intelligent design, Nazi Germany, philosophy, psychology, Richard Dawkins
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A Recent Debate on Atheism v. Theism
And an interesting match up. Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris v. Robert Wright, Dinesh D’Souza, and a rabbi, Shmuley Boteach:
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, God, philosophy, religion, robert wright, Sam Harris
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PZ Myers Finally Rises into Bryan Appleyard’s Radar
And Appleyard skewers him, returning rhetorical fire with rhetorical fire: I note also the appearance of this character P.Z.Myers. I’ve never read him before but I now discover he once did me over – ‘How stupid are the editors and … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, bryan appleyard, Catholic, Catholicism, Daniel Dennett, jerry coyne, New Atheists, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins
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Michael Ruse, an Atheist, on Why He Hasn’t Signed Up with the New Atheists (or Confidence Atheists)
Daniel Dennett. PZ Myers. Richard Dawkins. Jerry Coyne. Philosopher Michael Ruse is an atheist too. But don’t sign him up with the above confidence atheists. Why? Here’s one reason that he gave in a recent essay in the UK’s Guardian: [H]ow … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, God, jerry coyne, michael ruse, philosophy, PZ Myers, religion, Richard Dawkins
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Hugh Hewitt v. Richard Dawkins: What’s North of the North Pole?
Right-wing radio host and Evangelical, Hugh Hewitt, interviewed atheist Richard Dawkins on Tuesday. I thought this part of the exchange was telling: HH: I’m talking about the whole cosmos. Where did that come from, 13 billion years ago? RD: It … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Dennett, deepities, evolution, Hugh Hewitt, north pole, ontological mystery, philosophy, poetry, Richard Dawkins, science, the big bang
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Daniel Dennett: the Vanquisher of “Deepity” Religion—and Poetry?
The Daniel Dennett deepity slide that Jerry Coyne took a picture of here is one that I wrote into my notebook (I was at the same conference). A deepity, according to Dennett, “is a proposition that seems to be profound … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, language, philosophy, physics, poems, poetry, psychology, the ontological mystery
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Is the New Atheism an Unpleasant Blend of the Academy with Cable News Culture? Andrew Sullivan Thinks So, and Takes After Jerry Coyne and Daniel Dennett
Jerry Coyne, at his blog, summarized Daniel Dennett’s talk this weekend at the big atheist convention ho-down in Burbank, California this weekend (and which I went to) thus: Dan Dennett talked about interviews with active priests and ministers who are atheists, and … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, Andrew Sullivan, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, God, jerry coyne, Jesus, philosophy, religion
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A Photo Tour of the October 3, 2009, Atheist Alliance International Annual Convention in Burbank, California!
The Atheist Alliance International Annual Convention, held this year in Burbank, California (at the Marriot Hotel Convention Center next to Bob Hope Airport), happened to be not too far from where I live, and so I went. Ironically, the Marriot … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, jerry coyne, Jesus, Michael Shermer, philosophy, Richard Dawkins, science
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Biologist Richard Dawkins, Physicist Lawrence Krauss, and Philosopher Daniel Dennett at the Atheist Alliance International Annual Convention in Burbank, Ca., October 3, 2009
This photograph was taken a few minutes before Daniel Dennett started his Saturday afternoon talk. Dennett, by the way, is a tall dude (like basketball player tall): Dennett, in his lecture, coined a mildly amusing term (or, more accurately, one of … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheism, atheist, burbank, Daniel Dennett, jerry coyne, lawrence krauss, poetry, Richard Dawkins
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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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What’s Atheism Good for? Ctd.
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Tagged atheism, Daniel Dennett, Darwin, evolution, Expelled, free thought, life, PZ Myers, reason, Richard Dawkins, science, worldviews
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Is Dualism Still in Play? Australian Philosopher David Chalmers on the Relation of Mind to Matter
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Tagged agnostic, atheism, atheist, Christianity, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, dualism, God, mind, philosophy, psychology, religion
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Is God the Ultimate 747? Richard Dawkins v. William Lane Craig
In The God Delusion, one of Richard Dawkins’s arguments against the value of positing a deity as an explanation for the universe’s existence is this: The deity would be more complex than the universe you’re attempting to explain, and so to say “God created the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, God, god's existence, Richard Dawkins, the ultimate 747, theism
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Prometheus Unbound 