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by Eric Steinhart The cosmological argument is really a family of arguments. Some of the cosmological arguments are very concrete. Aquinas’s Second Way and the Kalam Argument (popularized by William Lane Craig) reason back to some first cause of the universe at the beginning of time. Atheists (like Quentin Smith) have given various replies to [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Atheism and Leibniz
February 28th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Martin Pribble's Interview With Dan Barker
February 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Martin Pribble scores an interview with Dan Barker, the former music minister turned atheist activist, co-host of Freethought Radio, and author of Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists and the newly released The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism 
1 Comment »Is it Too Risky to Debate Morality's Foundations in the Public Square?
February 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Jean Kazez argues that the public square is not the place for atheists to be arguing that science and religion are incompatible. I strongly reject her position on this point because not only do I believe that ordinary people are quite capable of handling a vigorous, no-holds-barred debate about religion but because I believe the [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Duty, Duty, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Metaethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Secularism, Skepticism, Skepticism 
Tags: J.L. Mackie, Jean Kazez, Jean-Paul Sartre, Moral Anti-Realism, Moral Error Theory, Moral Realism, Pragmatism, Russell Blackford, Sam Harris, The Death of God 8 Comments »Daily Hilarity: The President's Speech
February 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This looks like a profound and moving film: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, George W. Bush, George W. Bush, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Political Satire, Political Satire, Satire, Satire Tags: Jimmy Kimmel, Mike Tyson No Comments »In Honor of Natalie Portman's Best Actress Award
February 28th, 2011 Daniel Fincke I was extremely proud of one of my favorite human beings last night. It’s a good night to reminisce about how much talent she already had at just 13 years old, in the film Beautiful Girls: Your Thoughts?
In Honor of Trent Reznor's Academy Award Win
February 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke One of my favorite Nine Inch Nails songs, “Only”, from the album With Teeth. Your Thoughts?
The Issue Is Unjustified Religious Authority And Influence
February 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Jason Streitfeld gets to the heart of the matter of why some of us are so adamant about publicly advancing atheism: For atheists like me, there is one issue that matters most in all of this: the role of religious authority in society. I’m not saying atheists are concerned with this issue above all else. [...]
The Secret Agreement between Atheists and Theists
February 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke by Eric Steinhart Atheists and theists have a strange secret agreement. You can see it if you look at the way they treat the arguments for God, like the cosmological argument. The theists say: (1) If the reasoning in the cosmological argument is correct, then God exists. (2) The reasoning in the cosmological argument is [...]
The Problem of Muslim Homophobia In Britain
February 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Johann Hari goes into detail about how bad it is: Here’s a few portents from the East End that we have chosen to ignore. In May 2008, a 15 year old Muslim girl tells her teacher she thinks she might be gay, and the Muslim teacher in a state-funded comprehensive tells her “there are no [...]
Joe Scarborough Denounces Glenn Beck
February 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Thanks to The Radula for calling attention to this. If only more people on the right would be as unequivocal in saying their movement should have no place for an ideological leader who is a complete and total conspiracy theorist nutcase. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Videos Tags: Glenn Beck, Joe Scarborough No Comments »Sundaily Hilarity: Amish Paradise
February 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A classic: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Music Videos, Music Videos, Parody, Parody, Videos Tags: "Weird Al" Yankovic No Comments »About Those Germans Trying To Get The Pope Charged With Crimes Against Humanity…
February 27th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sendai Anonymous has the scoop on how the enemy of our enemy may not be our friend. Your Thoughts?
Shepard Smith Insists Wisconsin Is About Union-Busting
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The one fair and balanced guy on FOX News speaks up again: Your Thoughts?
The Agnostic's Options, Illustrated
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Don’t understand the cartoon? Understand it but don’t agree? Here are a few posts that will clear up what it means and why it is correct (to my mind at least): Distinguishing The Atheist Agnostic, The Theist Gnostic, The Atheist Gnostic, and The Theist Agnostic Disambiguating Faith: How A Lack Of Belief In God May [...]
Beau Obremski's "Think"
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The short film below was runner up in Project Reason’s 2011 Video Contest. You can see the winning video and backlash to it (in the comments section) here. The third place winner was “The Tutor”, which we have already featured. What do you think?
Posted in Arts, Arts, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Secularism Tags: Animated Shorts No Comments »Daily Hilarity: Immersion Therapy For Homosexuals
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Rather than subjecting our gay friends to the cruelties of “aversion therapy” for the sake of appeasing homophobes, perhaps instead we should just cure the homophobes of their irrational fear of gays using “immersion therapy”. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Parody, Parody, Satire 1 Comment »55 Years of Chart Topping Songs In 75 Minutes
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Click here for two compilations which include all the US chart topping songs spanning 1956-present in short clips so you can catch up on the last 55 years of mainstream pop music in just an hour and fifteen minutes. Your Thoughts?
The Fine Tuning Argument Debunked
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
The Executive Branch WILL Continue Enforcing DOMA, Just Will Not DEFEND It In Court
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Get ready for the deceptive meme to come flying your way that the Obama administration is abnegating its responsibilities to enforce law by not enforcing the Defense of Marriage Act. The administration will continue to enforce the unconscionable law, it will only not defend it from legal challenges in court. Others, starting with the House [...]
Posted in Andrew Sullivan, Andrew Sullivan, Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, Eric Holder No Comments »'Nuff Said Award Winner: Holden Mirror On Tea Party Legislative Priorities
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Today’s ‘Nuff Said Award comes not from a Camels With Hammers commenter but a Huffington Post one named Holden Mirror: Between union busting and uterus busting, are you Baggers ever going to do any work on jobs? ‘Nuff Said. Your Thoughts?
Posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics Tags: Tea Party No Comments »Vatican Confirms Widespread Rape Of Nuns By Priests In 23 Countries
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sickening: The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. Most of the abuse [...]
150 Of Film's Most Remembered Lines
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke They don’t get much more famous than these: Which is the most famous you didn’t hear? Your Thoughts?
Louis CK, Opie, & Anthony Interview Donald Rumsfeld
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke And Louis CK takes him the opportunity to ask him if he is a lizard from outer space who eats human flesh. A strange interview: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Hilarious, Politics, Politics Tags: Donald Rumsfeld, Louis CK, Opie & Anthony No Comments »Enigmania's Philosophers' Blog Carnival
February 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke …is impressively extensive. Your Thoughts?
Why Atheists Should Not Give Up Challenging Theism And Theists
February 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke GreenGeekGirl advises the atheist community (and she has a nice defense of the existence of an atheist community against those who do not believe one exists) that we should no longer bother arguing with theists, since this is supposedly futile, but should rather accept we have it pretty good in America and focus on protecting [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats 15 Comments »
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