Clergy Letter for Imams (and More From the Evolutionary Blogosphere)
Open Parachute and Panda’s Thumb both report on the expansion of the Clergy Letter Project to include Muslim clergy voices in support of evolution.Also related, Sabio Lantz tells how evolution cost him...
View ArticleLessons in Pseudoscholarly “Logic”: The Argument from Lack of Authority
The “argument from authority” is a well-known logical fallacy which involves citing an expert as though appeal to the opinion of any one such qualified individual could, on its own, settle the...
View ArticleAn Even Greater God
This cartoon from XKCD requires some knowledge of the philosophy of religion. The ontological argument for God’s existence is an attempt to argue for the existence of God a priori, by beginning with...
View ArticleA Hat Greater Than Which Cannot Be Conceived
The latest from Existential Comics. Click through to see the rest of the comic.If you don’t get the jokes, ask!
View ArticleBatman Theodicy
From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. It provides a nice illustration of how we sometimes accept an argument from a premise that we take for granted, without realizing that the premise itself is...
View ArticleArguing for Jesus
A Facebook conversation (if one can call it that) in which I recently became embroiled reminds me of how I used to approach discussions with those who disagreed with me. It was OK to lump my opponents...
View ArticleAd Hominem
Regular commenter Ian said the following, which made an important point clearly and succinctly, and so I wanted to share it. He wrote: Being shown in detail that you’re wrong is often confused for a...
View ArticleDifferent Design Arguments
The major difference between the kinds of design arguments one encounters in cosmology and biology is this: The design argument in physics involves accepting what the majority of scientists in that...
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