Category Archives: Religion
You can’t explain a variable with a constant
Courtesy of reader Jocelyn Stoller, comes this video, of respected philosopher of science Jim Woodward discussing whether or not religious beliefs explains things like suicide bombing and the moral right in the US. Answer: not likely. Watch part 2 at … Continue reading
Filed under Philosophy, Religion, Science
Irreducible complexity robotics
Click on the image to go to the comic.
Filed under Creationism and Intelligent Design, Epistemology, Evolution, Humor, Philosophy
The meaning of Christmas
Tony Piro creatively borrows from Peanuts. Click on the picture to see the full comic. Tony has Linus give a fairly standard view, that Christmas is based on prior religious traditions. He carefully avoids making Linus repeat the “Christmas is … Continue reading
Filed under History, Humor, Pop culture, Religion
Adopt an atheist auction
Greg Laden is reporting that the Catholic League of America is calling for Catholics to adopt an atheist. I think this is an excellent idea! In fact, I think it should be expanded. Every religion should compete to adopt atheists. … Continue reading
Can an atheist have a code of ethics?
I posted this on Quora, but I thought I might put it here as well, and add a couple of things: A while back I gave a talk to a group of theologians on the question of Darwinian accidents. It … Continue reading
Filed under Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Religion
Prescriptions for atheists
Jeez. You go away for a few days, to the beach and countryside, and come back to find that progress has been made in philosophy; in particular regarding the right view to hold about religion and the religious. The story … Continue reading
Filed under Epistemology, Humor, Logic and philosophy, Philosophy, Rant, Religion
