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Mental Health Break: ELO’s Strange Magic
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Ron Rosenbaum separates the sheep from the asses with one question: why is there something rather than nothing?
In a recent Slate article, Ron Rosenbaum affirms his agnosticism against both theists and atheists, and offers atheists in particular a “show me the money” question: Rosenbaum wants atheists to write and tell him how it is that something came from nothing: … Continue reading
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Why I Am an Agnostic—and Not a Theist or an Atheist
I’m an agnostic because I genuinely find a lot of mystery in the universe, and don’t presume to know more than I reasonably can. I can’t just “choose” a position—theism or atheism—that doesn’t make full sense to me. My analogy would be multicellular life … Continue reading
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“God may not exist, but the ontological mystery does”: Is It OKAY for an Agnostic to Point Out the Obvious? Or Does That Make One a MYSTIC, and No Longer an Agnostic?
As an agnostic, I am happy to allow some things to function as mysteries, and not reduce them (prematurely) to a ready-made, mechanistic explanation. Why matter should evoke mind when it reaches a certain degree of complexity is a mystery, … Continue reading
Shiny Happy Atheists in Tight Tees?
I’m an agnostic, but this British bus ad campaign, supported by Richard Dawkins, strikes me as inane. Not because there is probably no God. I agree that God probably does not exist. It’s the ad campaign’s sunny tone that I … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 