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February 2012
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Atheism Isn't a Phase
I am sure that I will be one for the rest of my years. Never have I been so rational; never have I been more awake; never have I allowed life to trouble me so much. However, that’s the beauty of it. I can accept reality as is. I don’t have to convince myself that there is some god operating in my favor. I don’t have to be naive enough to say that he/she/it cares for my...
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Christian Doctrine Proves Their God Cannot Exist →
nonplussedbyreligion:
God Is Dead” – New York Times, Jan 9, 1966
The most common argument that Atheists are asked to defend is to provide proof that god does not exist. This is known as “Proving a Negative.” Technically, it is defined as an “Argument from Ignorance.” Essentially, it is a logical fallacy in that a claimed premise is deemed true only because it has not been proven false....
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“He’s signed up to the Nicene Creed. The universe was created by a very...”
– Richard Dawkins - In response to the book The Dawkins Delusion?
(via reasons-greetings)
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“The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the...”
– Pierre Abelard
(via artoftheunbeliever)
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What Were the Consequences of Early Human &... →
Early modern humans left Africa about 80,000 to 50,000 years ago. The question has long been whether the physically stronger Neanderthals, who possessed the gene for language and may have played the flute, were a separate species or could have interbred with modern humans. The answer is yes, the two lived in close association.
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Tuesday's Debate: Jared Diamond, "The Rise and... →
“Think again of those astronomers who beamed radio signals into space from Arecibo, describing Earth’s location and its inhabitants. In its suicidal folly that act rivalled the folly of the last Inca emperor, Atahuallpa, who described to his gold-crazy Spanish captors the wealth of his capital and provided them with guides for the journey. If there really are any radio...
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Avoidance of Facts Continued
sungyak
“There are hundreds, if not thousands, of dinosaur species completely unaccounted for in the Bible.”
I see you like to repeat this kind of ‘it’s not accounted for in the Bible, so the Bible is not a trustworthy account’ rhetoric. It’s really not very persuasive. If my journal entry doesn’t account for today’s weather, it...
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Avoidance of Facts
sungyak
How does evolution “cancel out” the creation account in Genesis? This seems to me a blank assertion, and so I don’t see how the conclusion that Adam didn’t exist follows.
The Bible is composed of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. ‘Light’ doesn’t always mean “one extreme of the electromagnetic spectrum.” That’s not what Jesus...
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A Misunderstanding
stream-of-unconsciousness:
“I hate when people shove their religion down my throat! Now open your mouth so I can shove my lack thereof down yours.”
— Atheists
Let us clear up this fundamental misunderstanding. Atheists aren’t shoving disbelief down anyone’s throat. We are protecting human rights. We are standing up for homosexuals who can’t marry. We are standing up for...
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On the Importance of Screwing Up →
clintirwin:
It is beginning to look like some physicists made a mistake in 2011. Their claim was that test results indicated neutrinos might move faster than light. It might seem particularly embarrassing if it turns out that the whole thing may have come from a loose cable. It was no small claim. The idea of anything moving faster than light in physics might be comparable to the Vatican...
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Krystal Myers: School Promotes Religion and... →
As a current student in government (at Lenoir City High School), I have realized that I feel that my rights as an atheist are severely limited when compared to other students who are Christians.
Not only are there multiple clubs featuring the Christian faith, but youth ministers are also allowed to come onto the school campus and hand candy and other food out to Christians and their friends....
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“Scripture itself remains a perpetual engine of extremism: because, while He may...”
– Sam Harris
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How Do I Define Atheism?
The latest news about Richard Dawkins has caused quite a stir. Many Atheists have gotten into the specifics of Agnostic Atheism and Gnostic Atheism. Some have outlined the distinctions made in “The God Delusion.” However, I find that the definitions are either overly simplistic or inaccurately applied.
My degree of Atheism depends on the god in question. For instance, I am 110%...
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Atheism: The Zero Vector →
reasons-greetings:
Frequently today, the religious tend to challenge atheists with a typical statement as this:
“Atheism is still a belief. It is the belief that there is no God, not a lack of belief in a God.”
This seems to be one of the most common misunderstandings and areas of heated discussion by both…
This is a great analogy. You are correct. Ironically, most religious beliefs...
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What Would You Call Evidence? →
reasons-greetings:
Perhaps the central stance of the critical/skeptical atheist for his or her lack of belief in a god is that there is no evidence for a god.
So, a major question to consider is, “What counts as evidence for God?”
I think this question to be a tough one, as the individual is forced by the…
I decided to reblog because my answer is a bit lengthy, but here we go. There...
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The Weakest Theist Argument
There’s a new argument floating around that is not only weak, but also the contortion of contortions. Basically put, some Christians are saying: “since I can’t prove to you that god exists, I’ll try to prove that you don’t exist and since you don’t exist, you cannot trust your senses and hence science is unreliable.” This argument is ridiculous for...
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Church 'Does Not Own Marriage' →
The Church does not “own” marriage nor have the exclusive right to say who can marry, a government minister has said.
Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone said the government was entitled to introduce same-sex marriages as a “change for the better”.
The Liberal Democrat was responding to comments by Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, who said that...
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Someone inboxed me about my email address. I...
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“In American today, anti-evolutionism matters because it has become the vanguard...”
– Ken Miller, Biology Professor from Brown University and Roman Catholic, on America’s Darwin Problem (via crookedindifference)
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“The Bible says from dust to dust. Astronomers say from stardust to stardust.”
– Michio Kaku, How The Universe Works
(via nonplussedbyreligion)
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Writing a New Code for Life? →
On “Star Trek, the aliens often look so human that crew members fall in love with them. But in real life, scientists in the field known as astrobiology can’t be sure alien life would even be carbon-based like us, or use DNA to carry a genetic code.
Some insight now is coming from earthly labs, where scientists are building alternative kinds of genetic codes, and showing how they...
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Faith Isn't Trust
When you hear someone say, I trust god, they’re saying that they’re willing to take life as it comes. There is no god; thus, he doesn’t control what happens or what doesn’t happen in a given life. A Christian would say: “I leave it in god’s hands.” So, they interview for the job and if they don’t get it, they say: “it wasn’t...
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“The Humanist lives as if this world were all and enough. He is not otherworldly....”
– Edwin H. Wilson
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lethappiness-findyou asked: "Now, a Muslim strapping bombs to him/herself in the name of Allah is someone I don’t respect. I don’t respect their version of faith. The same goes for the Bible Belt, Westboro Baptist, Fundamentalist, Bible bashing, science slandering, Creationist against all odds, intolerant, bigoted, homophobic, apologist for genocide Christian." OMG I LOVE YOU. haha