John Dub

Not in the mood for a WLC video at the moment. This is more interesting. The title is a bit of an attention grabber, but it gets in to the philosophy of science, the actual philosophy of science. It explains that any measurement we make is really only relative to other things and limited by our own ability to sense anything. It also covers that…[Read more]

I had to review the names, but that was a great series. Someone once told me there was a guide for discussion about it from the spiritual angle, designed for churches. Anyway. Of the suggestions, I’ll take Ruth-Anne. I like the idea of having lots of things for everyone, and being the connection to the bigger world via the store. Chris is great, b…[Read more]

Seriously?  Unpack that a little.  Religion is all about what people think – it has no grounding in physical reality.

Without getting into a thesis, religion comes from basic animal instincts, like not wanting to die. We can see our more intelligent animals cousins recognizing loss and mourning it. In us, this has grown into wanting to know wha…[Read more]

I don’t use them much, but I see them changing to remain relevant. I’ve seen how you can check a bag of books and other materials to use for a book club, lots of events for kids and reading areas for them, meeting rooms and facilities. One thing I haven’t tried lately is using a librarian to help with research, might be a good experiment to try.

I would like to see more discussion about religious thinking is and less about what people want it to be. Daniel Dennet tried to get that started with Breaking the Spell and I think more work has been done, but you don’t hear much about it. This is no doubt due to what the marketers of religious books think will sell.

I was listening to a…[Read more]

Why oh why can’t I let it roll off my back like you do, Lausten?

The delete key is useful. You should see what I write that never gets posted.

I was narcissisticly googling myself and found the day I declared my atheism.

https://www.skepticforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=13504

been meaning to say thanks for the links Tee. The concepts you discussed have been presented over the last couple years, down to specifically mentioning CBT (I think that was πrat). it’s a classic “fall through the cracks” situation though; you have to want the therapy to get it, “first step is realizing you have  a problem”, and all that. c…[Read more]

You might enjoy this discussion with Jonathan Haidt on that topic

A Discussion with Jonathan Haidt

Back on the topic of the thread. I haven’t listened to the Everyone’s Agnostic podcast in a while, but I recommend it. The recent episode featured a young pastor who was very serious about God, then started reading. Oops. He gave a sermon about how the use hell in the NT is allegorical and specific to the 1st century. He said hell is used to des…[Read more]

The R word will not be televised.

Did you modify that twice for spelling to be funny?

A friend of mine on facebook does this with definitions. He says words are defined by usage and he’s using them therefore he’s defining them.

Holy Blood? Really? Even “Baigent acknowledged that convincing evidence for his revisionist scenarios about Jesus has yet to appear. He followed leads to several alleged documents that fizzled out.” 

Notice how I provided the source of the quote, and that source includes sources and more quotes from Baigent himself stating that his theories have…[Read more]

@Sherlock/Justin

If you’re interested in debating a Harvard Educated Biblical Scholar, please Private Message Me.

Justin’s show is on Christian radio and has hosted many Biblical Scholars of all stripes, atheist to fundamentalist. Most shows also include a non-believer. I listened to his podcast for over a year before I realized he was a firm b…[Read more]

You know, I joined CFI because I thought there would be intelligent debate here. But I don’t know what a few of these folks are even doing here.

I’d stay out of the religion section if you want intelligent debate. I have rarely found any. Unless you get people like Robert Price and Bart Ehrmann on one stage, there isn’t much of a debate.

James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici steps into the picture to do a Discovery Channel documentary on the bone box.

That changes the scale.

Scholars and experts vs. science

With the scale changed. Israel sues to confiscate the bone box because now it is to valuable and should be on display at a museum.

Thus, every one of the so-called experts…

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I listened to this while getting ready for work today. Pretty simple if you’ve done any research at all. He spends 10 minutes talking about himself, then does some bad math, then finally gets to his philosophical arguments about how morality can’t come from random processes, and being created in the image of God makes more…[Read more]

Mike;

We know what sources are. Point being, when you offer an actual source, it’s horrible. You don’t even defend them, you just move on to the next crazy claim. I talk directly to people too, but I don’t expect you to believe everything I report. The things they say though are almost always backed with evidence that is available freely. You…[Read more]

I linked to the site about Theodosius because it contained much of the data I consider relevant to refuting your statements in a concise format. That “same data” has continued to be studied so it’s age is irrelevant. If you have information that it’s changed, then present that, instead of just “wondering” about it. People have been “cracking o…[Read more]

Always hard to tell with the mysterious Sherlock. Did I stump him? Is he just mad? Does he have something to do besides respond to my stupid questions?

The reason I ask the question is that is where the conundrum begins. We exist but why? Why is there existence of anything at all? Then you can start to ask where existence came from. To get there,…[Read more]