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Keith Parsons replied to my genetic fallacy discussion on the Secular Outpost. Vic, thanks loads for your reply. I do not think that we have...

Disney out, Fox in for Narnia.

A little bit of this on your Mexican food and you'll start seeing Jesus in your burritos.

Instead of spelling galaxies, how about this one? I changed the name at the end, however. Suppose . . . that on next Tuesday morning, just a...

A redated post. I. The argument from Implied Practice 1. If ethics is subjective, then we should expect people to recognize that actions whi...

An interesting development of the AFR by a much-missed former denizen of the blogosphere.

A link discussing A. J. Ayer's emotive theory of ethics.

Daniel Dennett's greatest work.

Without a clear idea of what we mean by faith, it could be all sorts of different things. Does faith mean belief absent any evidence, or bel...

By Jerry Coyne. HT: Eric Koski.

A redated post. The link it to a philosophy of religion information site. Suppose you have been trying to decide whether to believe in God o...

HT: Matt Jordan

A redated post. This links to a Debunking Christianity post. I suppose there are some Christian apologists who calculate the apologetic impa...

Can you be an atheist without devoting yourself to atheism in any way? Some people, like Dawkins, are really dedicated to atheism. They put ...

Very often the Trilemma argument is treated as a proof of Jesus's divinity. I'd like to see how far it can go, not as a proof of Jes...

Is there a burden of proof? Brandon seems to think there is no general burden of proof that could support, for example, the claim that athei...

Where does the information about Christ come from? From a source that says he walked on water, taught on his own authority (even exalting hi...

Let's try the following to help clarify things. Do you think that it would be an Constitutionally unacceptable violation of privacy if t...

According to this. It seems clearly right that the constitution did not affirm the right of a Negro slave to liberty. If it had, the Souther...