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Saturday, February 18, 2023

Assisted Suicide

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Here's an ethical question for you: Is suicide always wrong? Is it always wrong for someone to seek medical help in taking their own lif...
Friday, February 17, 2023

No Warming in Eight Years

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This article is interesting, especially given the exceptionally warm winter we seem to be enjoying in the Middle Atlantic states in the U.S...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Good Writing

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John Miller at the Wall Street Journal (paywall) tells us that the great American novelist Ernest Hemingway believed he owed his writing sk...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 10)

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In the concluding chapter of The God Delusion Richard Dawkins ventures an explanation for how religions came to be. The short of it is tha...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 9)

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To fully appreciate the ironies of chapter 9 of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion one has to understand that Dawkins apparently has to ...
Monday, February 13, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 8)

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In chapter 8 of The God Delusion Richard Dawkins continues to pile implausible assertions on top of very dubious arguments. He delivers him...
Saturday, February 11, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 7b)

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Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion is a rambling, weakly argued polemic against God and religion in which no canard is considered too la...
Friday, February 10, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 7a)

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We continue our critical journey through Richard Dawkins' best-selling case for atheism, The God Delusion , with a look today at chapter...
Thursday, February 9, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 6)

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Biologist Richard Dawkins concerns himself in chapter 6 of The God Delusion with an attempt to explain the relationship between God and mor...
Wednesday, February 8, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 5)

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Having shown to his own satisfaction, if not to that of many professional philosophers and scientists, that there's almost certainly no ...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 4c)

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Although confident that he's just demolished any rationale for believing in God with his argument based on God's alleged improbabili...
Monday, February 6, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 4b)

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Last week we began a critique of the crucial chapter 4 in Richard Dawkins' atheistic best-seller The God Delusion . Chapter 4 contains ...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 4a)

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We're continuing our examination of Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion with a look today at the first part of Chapter 4. This c...
Friday, February 3, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 3)

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We continue our walk through Richard Dawkins' best-selling attack on belief in God (though he calls it, rather pretentiously (p.57), an ...
Thursday, February 2, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch. 2)

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Yesterday I began to rerun an old series of posts on Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion and discussed chapter one of his very infl...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

The God Delusion (Ch.1)

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Almost twenty years ago I did a series of posts for VP in which I wrote down my thoughts on Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion (he...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Is Everything One Thing?

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Physicist Heinrich Päs has a book out in which he explains the thinking of a lot of contemporary physicists that some ancient philosophers w...
Monday, January 30, 2023

Seven Myths

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In his book Unbelievable: 7 Myths about the History and Future of Science and Religion historian of science Michael Keas discusses seven my...