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PZ and Crommunist offer nice denunciations of the significance of a graphic which has been going around the internet which concludes that the chance of any given individual alive today ever existing was 1 in 102,685,000. Below the fold is the graphic, key snippets of their remarks and the lesson to draw for how we should consider [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Richard Dawkins’
Thinking According To Scale
November 21st, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Biology, Biology, Ethics, Ethics, Evolution, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Metaethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Naturalistic Fallacy, Naturalistic Fallacy, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Probability, Psychology, Psychology, PZ Myers, PZ Myers, Science, Science, Sociobiology, Sociobiology 
Tags: Crommunist Manifesto, Grind the universe down to its finest powder, Hierarchical Reductionism, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Richard Dawkins on Reductionism, Terry Pratchett, The Blind Watchmaker 
3 Comments »Dawkins: “Somebody As Intelligent As Jesus Would Have Been An Atheist”
October 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke “To the extent that a religious person believes an obvious falsehood like the world is only 6,000 years old, I’m going to have an argument with them,” Dawkins explained. “Your tea-drinking vicar who doesn’t believe that… I mean, of course those people are very different and I would have a very different kind of argument [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Jesus, Jesus, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion Tags: Richard Dawkins 17 Comments »Are Supernaturalists Actually Super-materialists?
September 25th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Ophelia plucks and highlights a comment so good and philosophically interesting from PZ’s comments section that I just have to reproduce it too. For the background, Colin Tudge falsely claimed that in Richard Dawkins’s new introduction to science for children, The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True, Dawkins dogmatically imposes on children a “crude materialism” that [...]
Posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, Love, Love, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mind, PZ Myers, PZ Myers Tags: Ophelia Benson, Richard Dawkins 12 Comments »Dawkins Against Religion's Claim To Superiority Because It Offers Absolute Morality
February 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is one of the most concise, eloquent, and accurate statements on the problem with religious absolutism in morality and the superiority of secular, non-absolutist approaches to morality I have ever heard. And it is certainly Dawkins’s best 2 and a half minutes on the topic of morality I have ever heard: Thanks to Lucy. [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Authority, Authority, Bible, Bible, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Koran, Koran, Metaethics, Metaethics, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Secularism, Videos Tags: Absolute Morality, Non-Absolute Morality, Richard Dawkins 2 Comments »Dennett: Darwin Had The Single Greatest Idea Anyone Ever Had
February 12th, 2011 Daniel Fincke This is a terrific video in which Dennett and Dawkins get further into the weeds discussing the dynamics of evolution, responsibility, how you can make living things out of dead stuff and conscious ones out of unconscious ones, the wonder of natural processes, the idea that we have souls—but they’re made of neurons, and many [...]
Posted in Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Biology, Biology, Daniel Dennett, Daniel Dennett, Evolution, Evolution, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, New Atheism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Mind, Science, Science, Videos Tags: Charles Darwin, Complexity, Daniel Dennett, Meaning, Purpose, Richard Dawkins, Teleology 2 Comments »“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 »Support The Secular Student Alliance
December 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke If you’re a secular college student, consider getting involved with the Secular Student Alliance for a great opportunity to network fellow secularists, to do stereotype-dispelling charity projects, promote rational thought, and learn more about post-religious ways of thinking. See if your school has a group and if they do not, consider starting one: And whether [...]
Dawkins Debunking The Story Of Noah’s Ark
December 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Atheist Videos, Bible, Bible, Biology, Biology, Evolution, Evolution, Religion, Religion, Science Tags: Richard Dawkins No Comments »Richard Dawkins’s Case Against The Pope
September 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke This brilliant, efficient, and so very importantly true speech needs to go viral, do your part to make it happen. Your Thoughts?
Richard Dawkins: “Faith School Menace?”
August 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Jerry Coyne relays this truly eye-opening new documentary from Richard Dawkins which aired in the UK last week: Here’s a link (thanks to Johann Hari) for donating to the cause of abolishing state funding of faith schools in the UK. Your Thoughts?
The Four Horsemen Of Atheism In Comic Book Form
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke There are many similarly amusing comics at Virus Comix. And to compare with real life, here’s their full 2 hour video together from a couple years back: Your Thoughts?
If Atheists Acted Like Politically Conservative Christians
July 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke So well done: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Political Satire, Political Satire, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Same Sex Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: Bill O'Reilly, DarkMatter2525, Door To Door Evangelism, In God We Trust On Money, Prayer In Schools, Religious Billboards, Richard Dawkins No Comments »“Dawkins Is Not A Priest”: A Heated Facebook Exchange
June 23rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Last spring a friend asked me to come over to her Facebook wall where she had posted a Sam Harris video (on his views on science’s ability to answer moral questions, which I will get around to analyzing here some day). Though not an outspoken atheist herself, she had received a lot of anti-atheist fervor from [...]
Posted in Atheism, New Atheism, Secularism Tags: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Stephen Hawking No Comments »God, Science, And Sanity: A Panel On Religion And Psychology
June 9th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A panel of Richard Dawkins, Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio, Professor Patrick McGorry, Steve Fielding, and Julie Bishop discusses psychology and religion. The reaction to the creationism of the Australian parliamentarian from the audience is heartening. Your Thoughts?
Cartoon Version Of Dawkins’s Classic Reply To The Question “What If You’re Wrong?”
April 25th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Based on this clip of Richard Dawkins replying to a Liberty University student who asks him, “What if you’re wrong?” comes this great South Park style cartoon version of Dawkins pwning the student: Your Thoughts?
Andy Thomson on Why We Believe in Gods
April 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Daily Hilarity: Hate Mail
November 7th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Richard Dawkins reads some hate mail from religious detractors: And ZJ also gives her critics a fair hearing: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Atheist Videos, Christianity, God, New Atheism, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religulous, Videos Tags: Hate Mail, Religious Hatred, Richard Dawkins, ZJemptv No Comments »“Hell House”
October 31st, 2009 Daniel Fincke True evil on Halloween: the psychologically abusive Christian hell house—first with a tour: Then with a report by Richard Dawkins: Your Fears?
Dawkins On The Anthropic Principle
October 30th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Interesting remarks on the possible implications of Darwinian thinking for thinking in physics. Is it possible that there is natural selection among many universes? Watch Dawkins’s entire talk from which this clips comes: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Astronomy, Atheism, Atheist Videos, Biology, Evolution, Physics, Science, Videos Tags: Anthropic Principle, Richard Dawkins No Comments »Scientist vs. Blowhard
October 10th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Daily there are great new interviews with Dawkins coming out as he promotes the new book. This one is the most worthless and insight-free. But it’s one of the most high profile since it’s on O’Reilly’s show and it’s also O’Reilly setting a personal record for stupidity. He could not be any more tangential, desperate, [...]
Richard Dawkins’s Address To The Atheist Alliance International Convention 2009
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke From a week ago tomorrow, Richard Dawkins addresses the Athiest Alliance International. He reads the final chapter of his newest book, The Greatest Show on Earth which is an exegesis of the last chapter of The Origin of Species. There are 5 parts so keep watching after the first video below! Your Thoughts?
On Facts, Theories, And The Philosophy Of Science
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke PZ Myers fisks Nicholas Wade’s review of Richard Dawkins’s The Greatest Show on Earth, in which Wade gets pedantic about a distinction between facts and theories which only shows his own ignorance about how the two relate to each other. Along the way Wade badly invokes the philosophy of science. First off Myers quotes Stephen [...]
Why Do Atheism Rates Correlate With Education Levels?
October 9th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Carlo Strenger argues the case that the statistical correlation between increased education and increased rates of atheism is not a coincidence or a matter of conformity for the sake of status among intellectuals: Nick Spencer shows that there is indeed a correlation between educational level and atheism. In the US this phenomenon is far more [...]
Richard Dawkins’s Speech Awarding Bill Maher
October 5th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Here’s the video of Dawkins balancing honoring Bill Maher with recognizing his disagreements with Maher’s views on medicine. And then going on to give a solid speech about both the virtues of Maher’s work and the religulousness exposed in Maher’s film. Warning, there’s an annoying ringing sound and some bizarre burbling noises throughout the video. [...]
Maher And Dawkins During The AAI
October 3rd, 2009 Daniel Fincke Last night, Bill Maher received an award named for Richard Dawkins and before arriving at the awards show to accept the award, he was on TV live with Dawkins while the conference watched. And, btw, in this video, Thomas Friedman has a remark that I think is one of the most insightful you’ll hear about [...]
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