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Study Logic and its Limitations 27 Aug 2013 | 05:08 pm
Join me for a FREE, college-level, 12-week course called “Think Again: How to Reason and Argue” at Coursera.org. It just started. The course is divided into these four parts. How to Analyze Argument...
Women Gospel Writers 26 Aug 2013 | 06:05 am
Jesus with a Samaritan woman at a well (John 4) pic source The stories of Jesus were all written by men. Heck, the whole New Testament was written by men. Some wonder if Hebrews or the apocryphal Gos...
A Skeptic’s Wisdom 23 Aug 2013 | 06:06 am
Note: sketched up while on a couchsurfing venture in NYC with my daughter!
Endothermic Religious Freedom 20 Aug 2013 | 09:40 pm
Introduction In High School chemistry you may have learned about chemical kinetics. Chemical kinetics explains chemical reactions in terms of energy states. Remember the fun experiment where you expl...
AI & Religion 19 Aug 2013 | 04:16 pm
People who do religion don’t need to study it, because they already know what it is. People who have never embraced a religion as an adult feel they can study religion objectively and still really und...
“Identity”: a fiction? 17 Aug 2013 | 06:14 pm
Japanese point at their nose to indicate themselves. (source) Philosophy of Language Unshared language is a common conversation-obstacle. But unshared philosophy-of-language is the largest barrier I...
Scientism & God: a meta-approach 16 Aug 2013 | 03:31 pm
Sean Carroll, over at Preposterous Universe, wonderfully critiques the word “scientism”. Scientism has again popped up its ugly head due to a recent Steven Pinker article in the New Republic. But as ...
Good-Luck Religion 14 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
“Good-Luck”: One of the many balloons supporting Religion I once had a friend, Jeff, who was raised Catholic but who had long given up his religious faith. If asked, Jeff would, without hesitation ca...
On Deep Connections: Yuan 12 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
This post discusses two deeply interconnected items I watched this weekend. But my writing that follows goes against all my principles of blogging. It is long, has no illustrations, offers way too man...
Christians doubting Jesus: Part 1 10 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
As I wrote here, I am glad most Christians don’t believe what they confess to believe. This post expands of things I am glad Christians don’t believe — namely, the mistaken teachings of Jesus. In th...
