One of the reasons that atheists don’t believe in God is that they don’t think His existence adds anything in terms of our understanding of the world around us. From Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian, “If everything …
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On the Abrahamic Religions
Of the main monotheistic (Abrahamic) religions, Judaism is, IMO, the most benign, for the reason presented at left. It’s certainly the least convoluted; there is no Holy Trinity, for instance. It also requires the least acceptance of bizarre, and in …
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Let’s Not Demonize Uneducated People, But ….
The concept in the meme here is an extremely popular one in modern-day American culture. There’s a problem here, however, and it’s not that uneducated are deplorable human beings; it’s that they’re far more likely to accept utter bullshit as true. …
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“Positioning” Religion
In the field of marketing, “positioning” means creating an association in the prospect’s mind between what you’re promoting and something that’s already in the prospect’s mind. This can be a positive message (“Drink responsibly”) or a negative (“Renewable energy mitigates …
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No, God Is Not On Your Side
Another pearl from Pope Francis. If the atheist intellectuals, like Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and the late Christoher Hitchens had their way, they would eradicate religion, largely for the role it plays in fomenting violence.
How To Consider Dandelions
To add some science to the discussion, it’s incorrect to say that a dandelion is not a “weed,” which is defined as an “unwanted plant.” Anywhere they’re unwanted, they’re weeds. Now, perhaps we should rethink what plants we want around …
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We Are Stardust
At left we see a fairly recent (last couple of decades) discovery in astrophysics. We’ve have known a great deal about the nature of matter for 150 years, but we had exactly zero idea where it all came from.
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There Must Be Republicans Who Can No Longer Put Up with the Lunacy
Not sure about the first part of the meme here. There have to be some Republicans who simply have had enough of the utter insanity of the GOP platform and are refusing to vote for things like bans on abortion, …
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Newton’s Laws of Motion
People who believe the legitimacy of this video don’t understand Newton’s laws of motion. I’m reminded of a grade school science teacher who points out to her students that Superman’s flying through the air would require him to be continuously …
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Americans Forget That Other Countries Exist
As COVID-19 raged around the world, many Americans believed that the pandemic was planned by the U.S. government, as an event to determine to what extend we would tolerate having our liberties taken away. An alternative theory was that our …
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