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Inerrant, irrefutable, infallible can be proven?
I was reading the Letters to the Editor in today’s Calgary Sun. One particular letter[1] defended the Bible’s prohibition of homosexuality. I’m not going to… -
Religion Explained: A review
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought by Pascal Boyer Basic Books, 2001 I found Boyer’s Religion Explained to be a far better book… -
Some Implications of Intelligent Design
by: Phil van Bergen If, for one minute, we accept Intelligent Design as a valid hypothesis, would we not also have to include Intelligent Genocide… -
Religious Right Faltering?
by: PsiCop The recent death of the Reverend Jerry Falwell has given America its share of news stories about how Falwell became a king-maker of… -
The Argument of Contradiction and the Argument of Deliberation
by: Will Petillo In understanding or defending the Bible, it is important to establish whether one is taking the Bible literally or metaphorically. This was… -
Is the Morality of Jesus Sound?
by: M.M. Mangasarian (1914) Originally published in the July 15, 1914 edition of The Rationalist Very recently, at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church,… -
A combination of instincts leads to belief
by: Dan Shanefield This continues a theme Dan Shanefield introduced in Meditation 596 Richard Dawkins and other authors have recently claimed, in their scholarly books,… -
Falwell Dead
I want you to have all the academic freedom you want as long as you wind up saying the bible account (of creation) is true… -
Emergence of Life
by: PsiCop The author brings up the matter of the emergence of single-celled life and posits that it’s an irreducible concept. While I agree that… -
It’s a better world that you think…
by: Norman Lambert The other day I was browsing your estimable site and came across Meditation 614 by Dan Shanefield. While I don’t hold quite…