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Kelly: You are an atheist fundamentalist, Jaime. Jaime: That’s impossible, there can be no such thing. Atheism itself is just “a lack of belief”. There is no holy book or other source of “fundamental” positions any atheist must hold. Not every atheist even needs to be an atheist in the same way. Some can only [...]
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Atheist Fundamentalism?
October 28th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Creationism, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Rationalism, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates 
38 Comments »“Not Everything In Life Is Logical”
October 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke When we rationalists, naturalists, and other assorted atheists insist that no one should form beliefs that disregard logic and evidence, the defenders of faith often tell us that “Not everything in life is logical”, or use some variant of this phrase. What might they mean by this? Where is their confusion exactly and how best [...]
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Tags: "Not Everything In Life Is Logical", Logic, Naturalism 17 Comments »American Values vs. Fundamentalist Values
September 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Contemporary Evangelical arguments for the mixing of Church and State usually fallaciously assume that for America’s most historically vindicated political, moral, and cultural values to be accepted as good and as true, either theoretically or in practice, or for these values to be preserved and advanced in future generations, Americans must accept and continue to perpetuate [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Christianity, Creationism, Creationism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Theocrats, Theocrats 7 Comments »Tyson On How We Can Tell Nature Was Not Designed For Us
March 19th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A really nice rundown from Neil deGrasse Tyson: Your Thoughts?
Trainwreck of the Day
March 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A couple Christian kids with a nauseating, badly performed anti-atheist song set to “My Humps” (via Greg Laden, whose categorizations of the video say it all about the video’s contents): And then there’s “Don’t Cha Wish Your Savior Was Right Like Mine”: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Christianity, Creationism, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religulous, Religulous, Theocrats, Theocrats, Unintentional Comedy, Unintentional Comedy, Videos Tags: Novelties, Self-Parody 2 Comments »Defending The Apparent Truth Of Evolution's Mindlessness
February 21st, 2011 Daniel Fincke Last Christmas Eve, I argued that the belief that God “guided evolution” was not a rationally respectable way to reconcile science with faith but rather it was essentially an effective denial of the theory of natural selection, in its scientifically explanatory sense. Part of the revolutionary character of the discovery of evolution by natural selection [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Biology, Biology, Creationism, Creationism, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Evidence, Evidence, Evolution, Evolution, Featured, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, God, God, Historical Philosophy, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Science, Secularism Tags: Alvin Plantinga, Eugenie Scott, Huston Smith, Jerry Coyne, National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), National Center for Science Education (NCSE) 4 Comments »Kansas vs. Darwin
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke From today through March 12, you can screen Kansas vs. Darwin. Description of the film: Even before they took place, the 2005 Kansas school board hearings on evolution were recognized as a pivotal battle in America’s ongoing war over teaching evolution in the public schools. Organized by believers in Intelligent Design and convened by creationists, [...]
Rebutting "Irreducible Complexity" Claims
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A couple of months ago I profiled a spectacular video in which Qualia Soup succinctly, clearly, and precisely debunked the creationist argument that within organisms there are designs which are so irreducibly complex that they could not have evolved but must have been intelligently designed. In reply to that video came criticisms from creationists and [...]
Posted in Biology, Biology, Creationism, Creationism, Evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Science, Science Tags: Irreducible Complexity 1 Comment »"Evolution Is A Blind Watchmaker"
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke A simulation addressing Paley’s watch argument by demonstrating that if the components watches are made of had the same basic properties that the components of organic beings have, then they could have evolved just as well: Thanks to Eric for the find. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Creationism, Creationism, Evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Science, Videos Tags: "Clocks", Coldplay, Irreducible Complexity, William Paley 2 Comments »Darwin's Birthdaily Hilarity: People Are Not Animals! (and evolution never happened)
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Edward Current makes the case: Your Thoughts?
How Belief In "Theistic Evolution" Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke The following is a repost from December 24, 2010: One often hears the refrain that it’s possible to believe in both God and evolution. And it is in fact true, both psychologically and, more importantly, logically, that one may both believe in God and in evolution. Psychologically we have ample evidence that plenty of people [...]
“Beware The Believers”
January 31st, 2011 Daniel Fincke I have no idea whether this parody (which is several years old) is actually against us or is just irreverently for us. I think that’s part of why I like it so much. That, and it’s totally well made, mesmerizingly bizarre, and undeniably hilarious in its visuals: (NSFW) Okay, after writing the above, I did [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Comedy, Comedy, Creationism, Creationism, Hilarious, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Music Videos, Music Videos, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Parody, Parody, PZ Myers, PZ Myers, Religion and Science, Satire, Satire Tags: Daniel Dennett, Eugenie Scott, Richard Dawkins 2 Comments »TOP Q: “Is It Unjust To Outlaw Schools, Even Private Religious Ones, From Teaching Religious Doctrines As Though True?”
January 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sweden is planning to make it illegal, even for private schools, to teach religious doctrines as true. Their content may be discussed, of course, but they will not be able to be presented as facts. In The Guardian, Andrew Brown explains the issues involved and the ulterior motives which may really explain the legislation: The [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Creationism, Creationism, Education, Featured, Free Speech, Free Speech, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Today's Open Philosophical Question (TOP Q) 9 Comments »Atheist Philosopher Of Religion Keith Parsons Abandons Theism Debate And Calls Theist Positions Frauds
January 5th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This happened during last semester when I was less capable of blogging in a timely manner. Now that there’s a fresh article on it, I thought I would highlight this piece by Julia Galef summarizing what went down (particularly because it adds even a little more kindling to the excellent debate among the Camels With [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion Tags: Alvin Plantinga, Brian Leiter, Debunking Christianity, Keith Parsons, Leiter Reports, Peter van Inwagen, Prosblogian, Secular Outpost No Comments »How Belief In “Theistic Evolution” Is Nearly As Much A Denial Of Science As Creationism
December 24th, 2010 Daniel Fincke One often hears the refrain that it’s possible to believe in both God and evolution. And it is in fact true, both psychologically and, more importantly, logically, that one may both believe in God and in evolution. Psychologically we have ample evidence that plenty of people believe in both and logically it is clear that [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Biology, Biology, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens, Cosmology, Cosmology, Creationism, Creationism, Divine Intervention, Divine Intervention, Evolution, Evolution, Featured, God, God, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Science, Secularism 12 Comments »Refutation Of Irreducible Complexity Arguments
November 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The great Qualia Soup is back, with a video explaining the problems with the anti-evolution arguments which rely on the idea of irreducible complexity. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Biology, Biology, Creationism, Creationism, Evolution, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Religion, Religion, Religion and Science, Science, Videos Tags: Charles Darwin, Duane Gish, Evolution of the Eye, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, Qualia Soup 1 Comment »In Defense Of Offering The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers has put online the text of an impassioned speech he recently gave against accommodationism. It’s a must-read so read it in full and pass it on to your friends. Here’s the gist: Shouldn’t we move beyond just reacting to every assault by Idiot America on science education, and honestly look at the root [...]
Settled Matters?
July 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke NonStampCollector sums up what he takes to be the points which have been thoroughly resolved and should be non-issues in all debates between atheists and Christians going forward: Controversially, you will note, he takes mostly atheist points to have been vindicated beyond the point of reasonable disagreement. Is he right? Does he wave away any [...]
Beyond Agnosticism: More Details About How I Know Various Kinds Of Gods Do Not Exist, Based On Scientific And Philosophical Reasons
June 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke While I agree with, and vigorously defend, the notion that there is an important difference between lacking a belief in gods (as an agnostic atheist) and believing there are no gods (as a gnostic atheist), I also think that atheists should not, based on the best available scientific evidence and philosophical arguments, merely lack belief [...]
Posted in Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments Against The Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Arguments for the Existence of God, Atheism, Atheism, Christianity, Christianity, Epistemic Justification, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Epistemology, Evidence, Evidence, Evolution, Evolution, Featured, God, God, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mind, Problem of Evil, Problem of Evil, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Skepticism, Skepticism, Why I Am Not A Christian, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Agnosticism, Personal God 9 Comments »
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