Al Gore has made hundreds of millions of dollars on his global warming nonsense. Let that sink in. Hundreds of millions. And that was before he sold his unwatched television network to a Al-Jazeera, an Arab network funded by oil money netting him $300 million on top of the more than $100 million … [Read more...]
I am about to ask an even sillier seeming question to those who would profess allegiance to the Evolutionary theory than before. If Evolution knows no boundaries so that single-celled organisms could evolve into such complex entities as human beings and blue whales, why aren't domesticated pigs and … [Read more...]
I don't think Evolution answers as many questions as people believe it does. I am more inclined to think it creates more questions that it ends up answering. In no way do I profess any expertise in the subject, but I've read a few books both for and against as well as the courses I took while in … [Read more...]
Philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote: I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is … [Read more...]
The difficulty of discussing evolution with those who stake their entire worldview on it is that it gets caught up in the maybes. It's quite humorous to me, for its hypocrisy. What I mean is religious adherents are often criticized by skeptics when they are asked something like "Why would God..." … [Read more...]
Not that the presence of snow during winter is any indication that man-made global warming is a farce -- there's plenty of science which indicates that. However, the irony is excellent. (Politico) -- The snowquester has claimed yet another casualty: Wednesday's House hearing on global … [Read more...]
Alvin Plantinga is perhaps one of the greatest Christian philosophers of the past century. He has recently offered a response to Sam Harris' book, Free Will, and has dispatched its claims handily. Plantinga notices an equivocation in Harris' argument and ultimately this is why it fails. If … [Read more...]
Is the science settled? Or are there real reasons one might doubt the settledness of the Green™ movement? The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a survey that shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than … [Read more...]
Ordinarily I don't read RedState.com, but they had a couple reader questions there I'd like to pose to my audience. I am not convinced that any warming which may be taking place (even though reports now show no warming in at least 16 years) is the result of human intervention. As I come across … [Read more...]
When you trade in confronting controversial topics like I do here, you expect to come across activists defending their issues. It just occurred to me, however, after all this time, that activist's methods of pushing their respective causes are nearly identical, but with a different message. For … [Read more...]
Morality seems to be quite a contentious subject among those who debate it. People seem to not like it very much when someone with differing views on what is moral and what isn't is perceived to be trying to force it on you or society as a whole. Whether a person or a group's vision of a moral … [Read more...]
Most Atheists who are willing to discuss why they believe God doesn't exist will say there isn't any -- or enough -- evidence to convince them He does. The little evidence which an Atheist may concede exists doesn't meet the threshold to abandon their atheism. Regardless of what I or other … [Read more...]
It's fairly common for Christians who argue for God's existence from the apparent design of the universe, or the complexity of DNA, or just the complexity of life itself to be accused by skeptics of making a God-of-the-gaps argument. 'Ancient man' says the skeptic, 'didn't understand the phenomena … [Read more...]
Those on the pro-choice side of the abortion debate are always looking for new ways to frame the debate. I can understand why, it's difficult to gain support when there's truth in advertizing: abortion takes the life of an innocent human being. This biological fact must be avoided if you are to … [Read more...]
I have often criticized Atheists who hold the difficult position that God does not exist even though I think that belief is accurate to the label (See: Who Did You Say You Were Again?). I take notice in my reading that many -- if not most -- professional Atheist philosophers won't take this … [Read more...]
I truly believe the vast majority of people do in fact believe all human beings to be equal. Whether that is consistent with their overall worldview is another matter all together. However, I think only one worldview is able to deem all human beings ontologically equal without requiring some … [Read more...]
Eww people! This seems to be the sentiment of many environmentalists. The notion that everything would be just fine and dandy if all the disgusting humans weren't ruining everything. Intrusive laws and regulations imposed all in the name of saving the environment which, by the way, doesn't need … [Read more...]
I currently voluntarily find myself in an "interview" via email correspondence with a fellow blogger. I use quote marks because the interviewer has quickly gone from interviewer to debater, which doesn't really bother me, I like debating. We are at a point now where he has capitalized on my … [Read more...]
I have come to at least one more conclusion about the mindset of some Atheists when it comes to confronting God and religion. There is a differing degree of desperation in a number of Atheists to disprove the existence of God which manifests itself in a number of ways. Yesterday I encountered two … [Read more...]
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