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Papalinton: However, the arguments providing epistemic support for atheism is growing as we speak. What remains in the wash, following the e...

Prokop: Ultimately, I think that the arguments from design and from fine tuning are both only "convincing" to the convinced. They...

Explained here.

This is presented here. Interesting quote: Analogically, the fact of the fine-tuned universe means the universe is life-allowing rather th...

David Attenborough thinks so .

Was Flew simply manipulated into changing his mind? According to this piece, no .

Here.

Jeff Lowder accused Mark Driscoll of "mind-reading" when he said that Obama is not a Christian, and Steve Hays replied that we h...

Is humanism a train wreck? According to this sociologist, it is. While I'm at it, my favorite train wreck song, "Wreck of the Old...

Here. I really think the ID message is getting skewed, partly, by the debate about public education. Still, the attempt to suppress discus...

A redated post. John Loftus takes this argument from Nicholas Everitt. Lewis always included responses to the argument that the size of th...

An argument to that effect was discussed here . To make that case, you'd have to commit the fallacy of chronological snobbery. HT: Bob...

This is in reply to the Lowder-Loftus exchange. The thread I was responding to is here. I think you have an unstable position. If people...

Well, not in his own words. Austin Cline explains the passage here. Nietzsche put the famous words in the mouth of a madman. So apparently...

Here.

This is the entry on fideism in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It mentions the possibility of a rational fideism.

Jeff Lowder has been criticizing Loftus on some of his arguments. Since both are atheists, John asks why Jeff is doing this: This ends our...

This deserves its own post.  BP: Usually what skeptics are asking for is "signs and wonders". Some, like Loftus, have quite spe...

One theme of atheists is that if God were to exist, he would make everything clear, and there would not be a multiplicity of religions. Why ...

A redated post. See also this by Russell Howell on why we wouldn't be mathematicians in a naturalistic universe.