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The end of god-16: The tortured reasoning of the new apologetics
(For previous posts in this series, see here.) In the previous post I discussed the fact that the new religious apologists start by arguing that a God of the Ultimate Gaps cannot be ruled out as a logical possibility and...
Posted in Mano Singham's Web Journal on May 22, 2008 08:25 AM
Taking offense
I have written before (See here, here, here, and here.) that one of the odd characteristics about the discussions about the new atheism is the frequently made charge that the new atheists are 'rude' and saying 'offensive' things about religion....
Posted in Mano Singham's Web Journal on June 4, 2007 07:55 AM
Respect for religion-3: Challenging the privileged status of religion
It used to be that when religious people said something about their beliefs that you disagreed with, the polite thing to do was to keep quiet, even if you thought it wrong or baseless or just plain silly. What is...
Posted in Mano Singham's Web Journal on May 9, 2007 07:55 AM
Questions for believers in a god and the afterlife
In recent posts, I have spent considerable time discussing why I thought that belief in an afterlife and god was irrational. In the course of those posts, I described what kind of evidence I would need to convince me that...
Posted in Mano Singham's Web Journal on April 13, 2007 07:55 AM
Scientific proof of god's non-existence
There were a couple of interesting (anonymous) comments in response to my post on what constitute rational and irrational beliefs. The writer said that I was overstepping the line that divided science from philosophy when I argued that religious beliefs...
Posted in Mano Singham's Web Journal on March 27, 2007 07:55 AM
Rational and irrational beliefs
Some time ago, I wrote a post wondering if the Pope was an atheist. Of course, I do not know the Pope personally and he has never made a public statement to that effect. It would not really be a...
Posted in Mano Singham's Web Journal on March 22, 2007 07:55 AM