… give or take
// A very common argument of many religious people is that a secular, humanist or materialist worldview leads inevitably to moral relativism. I will deal with the fact that secular reason can, in fact, produce moral absolutes in another post. For now, I will take the religious’ assertion and turn it on its ear: religion, in [...]
// I recently have been engaged in a back-and-forth with some of the bloggers on Elect Exiles. One of the bloggers, Drew, put forward some ideas for proving the existence of god. I am addressing these here because they seem to be common arguments put forward by the religious. In reference to Richard Dawkins, Drew [...]
// I haven’t been following Richard Dawkins closely of late, but I recently came across an excellent article he wrote earlier this year dealing with the topic of his most recent book on the evidence for evolution. Here’s a good series of talking points for the evolution side: Why, then, do we speak of “Darwin’s theory of [...]
// In this third edition of the series, I will respond directly point by point to Tylerray of Elect Exiles recent post on faith, reason, religion and secularism. Note that Tylerray’s original text is blue and my responses are regular typeface. He also quotes me several times. *** Secularist10 offers the following account of epistemology [...]
// In the first edition of this series, I dealt with some of the primary issues surrounding this topic, including evidence and reason. In this edition, I will deal with an idea that is prevalent among many religious people: that secularism or nonbelief is effectively equivalent to religion, or that it is itself a religion. [...]
