• There is a critical difference

    by: Will Petillo There is a critical difference between assuming that everything in the universe operates through material means and only studying material things. Although…
  • On the Deadly Sins

    by Will Petillo Something which most people — the writer of “The New Deadly Sins” included — seem to be unaware of is that the…
  • The Faithful Straw Man and Linguistic Confusion

    by: Will Petillo Will has made a small correction to his comments here in his response to Meditation 558. “I asked myself, and my interlocutor,…
  • Enough with frivolous probabilities!

    by: Will Petillo People can label themselves whatever they like, but this is often a reflection of their linguistic confusion rather than their actual beliefs.…
  • Defining the Supernatural

    by: Will Petillo Since the question of what “supernatural” actually means was raised in this discussion, and JT went to the trouble of defining “God,”…
  • Will’s Wager

    by: Will Petillo Chapter 1: A Crisis of No-Faith “But what if you’re wrong?” Jen asked me. “So what if I am?” I replied. “Then…
  • Burden of Proof

    by: Will Petillo “Burden of Proof” is a phrase that should be avoided During various conversations and moments of browsing the internet I have noticed…
  • An alternate hypothesis

    by: Will Petillo I completely agree with the focus of your article, but let me propose an alternate hypothesis regarding the tendency to broaden the…
  • More on Russell’s Teapot

    by: Will Petillo I was thinking recently on the teapot analogy, which was originally used to take the burden of proof off religious skeptics for…
  • Curiosity

    by: Will Petillo Since you mentioned “curiousity” as a virtue, allow me to push you towards new and more interesting levels of confusion… For the…