The discussion following my earlier post on “the hard problem” has gone on at rather great length, and has broached a number of topics. One of those topics has been theistic explanation, and Alex Dalton and Dianelos Georgoudis have raised some points that need further argument and clarification. First, when, if ever, would a rational … More on Theistic Explanation

I’ll be in St Louis on October 22, speaking at a “Skeptics in the Pub” event. It’ll be about Islam and science, particularly Muslim creationism. It should be interesting.

Ibn Warraq, the well-known critic of Islam and author and editor of books such as Why I Am Not A Muslim, has left the Center for Inquiry to join the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a neoconservative Washington DC think tank. [Thanks to David Harding for pointing this out to me.] There is an interesting … Neoconservatism and critics of Islam