1. Common New Atheist Fallacies

Comment #201829 by lhunt3 on June 30, 2008 at 9:51 am

He's right. Ad hominem is a fallacy, and I do get disappointed when Hitchens uses it.

But building a straw man is also a fallacy.

2. Should We Rid The Mind of God? A Debate

Comment #198419 by lhunt3 on June 23, 2008 at 9:12 pm

"What is the meaning of life?" "Why are we here?"

What could possibly be a meaningful answer to this question other than one that invokes claims about the world, and thus becomes a matter for science? If it's simply a matter of value, then it is true that science cannot study it. But then again, it would be a question that has many different answers to depending on who you are.

And besides, religions do much more than give us values. They make claims about the world. When will people like McGrath finally get this. I can get values any where I want to, but believing in a sky daddy who has a son born of a virgin, etc... is not the best way.

Either way, I can't even think of a possible answer to the question of why we are here. It's not a real question.

3. Science teacher dissed evolution

Comment #196746 by lhunt3 on June 20, 2008 at 11:59 am

The creationists are just going to point to this incident (forgetting about the fact that the teacher actually burnt the kids) as another example of "big science" unfairly promoting atheism in the classroom.