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Should You Believe That Alien Bacteria Have Been Discovered on Meteorites? And if You Do Believe It, How Strongly Should You Believe It?
Perhaps you noticed (as I did this afternoon) that DrudgeReport and Fox are pushing a “big” story that alien bacteria have been discovered on meteorites. Of course, nowhere else is there much buzz about this. So what gives? Biologist PZ Myers has … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, astrobiology, atheism, atheist, biology, critical thinking, God, PZ Myers, reason, science, the Bible
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Christian Martin Gaskell’s Shabby Treatment by Gnu Atheists
Martin Gaskell is a University of Texas astronomer who applied for a job at the University of Kentucky, but because of his open evangelical faith, he was denied it. The following is what the search committee chairman wrote in an email to the department chair: … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheists, bigotry, Christianity, gnu atheists, God, jerry coyne, Jesus, martin gaskell, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins
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Spineless Virginia Heffernan Attacks PZ Myers as Lacking Class for Sketching Mohammad
Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times wades into the gravity of the ScienceBlogs solar system (with PZ Myers as its sun) and finds herself distinctly unimpressed: Clearly I’ve been out of some loop for too long, but does everyone take for granted … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Islam, Jesus, Mohammad, PZ Myers, science, shame, south park, virginia heffernan
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The Doubting Thomas Award: Who Would I Give a Prize for Being a Model Doubter?
In a world where God is not there (or, at the very least, is not talking plainly), the two things that redeem existence from being a very, very large mistake are just two things: morality aesthetics By morality I mean … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Camus, doubting thomas, Jesus, Nietzsche, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Thomas Jefferson
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The resurrection of M. capricolum
Nobody really knows whether Jesus rose from the dead, but here’s a resurrection that you can know happened. PZ Myers explains what geneticist Craig Venter hath wrought: The experiment involved creating a strand of DNA as specified by a computer … Continue reading
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Tagged biology, craig venter, frankenstein, Genesis, life, PZ Myers, resurrection, synthetic life, synthetic men
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Nietzsche’s Revenge: PZ Myers v. Sam Harris on whether science can assist a person in deriving an “ought” from an “is”
PZ Myers, backing the physicist Sean Carroll in the argument, says no: Sam Harris recently and infamously proposed that, contra Hume, you can derive an ‘ought’ from an ‘is’, and that science can therefore provide reasonable guidance towards a moral … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, biology, Darwin, ethics, evolution, Nietzsche, philosophy, PZ Myers, Sam Harris, science, sean carroll
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Atheist Optimism vs. Atheist Pessimism: The Case of Thomas Hardy
Contemporary post-9/11 New Atheists are so, well, sunny, aren’t they? Perhaps it’s a product of our contemporary advertising culture, but it’s hard to distinguish this American atheist bus ad from a Mentos breath mint commercial: Minty and refreshing? As an … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, Albert Camus, atheism, atheist, Christmas, God, jerry coyne, literature, poetry, psychology, PZ Myers, thomas hardy
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New Atheistland Watch: Bryan Appleyard Owns PZ Myers—Again!
I love Bryan Appleyard’s eloquent retorts to the blistering rhetoric coming out of New Atheistland. Here’s Appleyard today on PZ Myers’s scientism: [M]ention intelligent design and the likes of Myers will be hurling abuse. But I gather from reading John … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, atheism, atheist, bryan appleyard, Charles Darwin, evolution, God, intelligent design, philosophy, PZ Myers, science
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Creation vs. Evolution Watch: A Trojan Horse at UCLA?
This past week a group of Evangelicals came onto the UCLA campus in Westwood and gave away 2000 free copies of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859). But, as usual, there is a catch to such things. The edition of … Continue reading
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Tagged atheist, creationism, evolution, Genesis, God, intelligent design, Jesus, New Atheists, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, trojan horse, UCLA
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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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Camille Paglia on Richard Dawkins
Today in Salon, Camille Paglia, an atheist who obviously hasn’t been paying much serious attention to the post 9/11 New Atheist movement, stumbled upon Richard Dawkins talking about religion on NPR, and having never heard his voice before, she thought he sounded a … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, Camille Paglia, confidence atheism, God, jerry coyne, Jesus, New Atheists, PZ Myers, religion, 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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PZ Myers and Albert Camus: Two Very Different Kinds of Atheists Inhabiting Two Very Different Kinds of Atheism?
I think that atheism, especially at its most strident, is capable of choking its own life energies by nihilistically clearing the “ground of being” of any larger meaning, and then killing off the ontological mystery by not going to imaginative literature … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, Albert Camus, atheism, atheist, existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, literature, philosophy, PZ Myers, Simone de Beauvoir
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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 Questions Would You Ask Richard Dawkins?
Most (though not all) of the questions I’ve heard asked by interviewers of Richard Dawkins seem to me tedious and uninspired. Generally, the same basic questions are asked about his atheism and about evolution, and he rehearses back the same … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, charlton heston, eugenics, genetics, God, jerry coyne, planet of the apes, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, science
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Atheism, Philosophy, Near Death Experiences, and Causal Dependency
In terms of atheism and philosophy, a big issue that near death experiences (NDEs) drive us to confront is what we think about the causal dependency of the mind upon the brain. In British philosopher Keith Ward’s exceptional book, Why There … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, death, jerry coyne, keith ward, near-death experiences, philosophy, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, science
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Andrew Sullivan on Richard Dawkins
In case you missed it, Andrew Sullivan, at his blog yesterday, compared Richard Dawkins to the President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: It’s telling that both Mohler and Dawkins are both dedicated to the maintenance of a certain brand of … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, Andrew Sullivan, atheism, atheist, Baptist, Christianity, jerry coyne, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins
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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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Prometheus Unbound 