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Is Atheism Just the Rejection of Belief in Gods?
In discussing atheism with atheists I’ve noticed that there is a good deal of resistance on their part whenever I claim that atheism, logically, is in the possession of a positive ideology: naturalism. No, they will say, an atheist is just someone who sees no good … Continue reading
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Blogging Schick and Vaughn’s “How to Think about Weird Things,” Chapter 3, page 37
Something that jumped out at me early on in chapter 3 of the college critical thinking text, Schick and Vaughn’s How to Think about Weird Things (5th edition, 2008), is the distinction that was made between argument and persuasion. To win support for … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, argumentation, atheism, evidence, Michael Shermer, paranormal, reason, rhetoric, Richard Dawkins, weird things, writing
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Blogging Schick and Vaughn’s “How to Think about Weird Things,” Chapter 2
Every other year or so I find myself returning to Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn’s critical thinking text, How to Think about Weird Things, and rereading the whole darn thing through again. Schick and Vaughn’s book is a rather popular college text, and it’s in its sixth edition. … Continue reading
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Blogging Schick and Vaughn’s “How to Think about Weird Things”
Every other year or so I find myself returning to Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn’s critical thinking text, How to Think about Weird Things, and rereading the whole darn thing through again. Schick and Vaughn’s book is a rather popular college text, and it’s in its sixth edition. … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, bertrand russell, critical thinking, epistemology, knowledge, philosophy, reason, religion, stephen gould, weird things
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UFO Helium Balloon Boy Found Alive!
This in the New York Times about a half-hour ago: The 6-year boy, Falcon Heene, was just found alive, according to reporter Dan Frosch, who is at the boy’s house in Fort Collins, Colo. The Larimer County Sheriff, Jim Alderden, … Continue reading
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Tagged balloon boy, death, helium, life, parenting, UFO sightings, UFOs, weird things
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Moscow’s UFO Mothership Cloud Akin to the Hexagon on Saturn?
Moscow’s recent eerie UFO “cloud and sun mothership” phenomenon (see here) reminded Jared Burton of the hexagon on Saturn—which I knew zip about. But Jared linked to this interesting article, and I found this on YouTube: And here’s the Moscow UFO … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, astronomy, Halloween, reason, saturn, skepticism, strange, UFO sightings, ufology, UFOs, weather, weird things
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UFO Mothership, or Just Sun and Clouds?
Last Wednesday there was a large UFO disk-like shape, apparently backlighted by the sun, that hung over Moscow, and the video of it has gotten a lot of YouTube attention: The Sun says this about the phenomenon: The video has appeared … Continue reading
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The Morristown UFO Sightings (2009)
Something creepy in the sky akin to what people saw in the 1997 Phoenix Lights incident: The UFOs did not appear on local radar and a pilot who witnessed them insisted that they were not aircraft: But, alas, it was … Continue reading
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Hanger 18: 1950s Military Clerk-Typist, June Crane, Claims That There Were Alien Bodies Stored at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio
And June Crane says she had a high level clearance for her job. At the age of 72, she decided to break her silence. Her testimony, from a History Channel UFO Files segment, starts at 2:20 in this clip: . What are … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, claims, eyewitness testimony, Halloween, hanger 18, june crane, psychology, scary, UFOs, weird things
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French Air Force Captain J.C. Duboc: What Should We Make of His UFO Testimony?
If you’ve been following this blog over the past couple of weeks, you know that I’ve had a change of mind concerning UFOs. I’ve long thought that the whole subject of UFOs was an easy target for debunking skeptics, and so I never … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 