LINK: Richard Dawkins’ Hate Mail
LINK Related Posts: Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)
LINK: New Blog: Religious Child Maltreatment
Janet Heimlich is the author of Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment (Prometheus Books, 2011), the first book to take an in-depth look at child abuse and neglect caused by religious belief. Her blog may be found here: LINK Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)
A reluctant humanist
A tragedy of life is that the longer the list of things you want to get done grows in inverse proportion to the amount of time left to get it done. Just as my pile of books to read gets bigger the fewer years I have left to sit down with them, so the number … A reluctant humanist
LINK: Is God a Moral Compromiser?
Christian scholar Thom Stark has written a book-length rebuttal to Christian philosopher Paul Copan’s book, Is God a Moral Monster? (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2011). The title of Stark’s book is, Is God a Moral Compromiser? A Critical Review of Paul Copan’s “Is God a Moral Monster?” (second ed.). Stark’s entire book is available for free … LINK: Is God a Moral Compromiser?
Please Welcome Raymond Bradley to the Secular Outpost
The Secular Outpost is still growing! Raymond Bradley, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University (retired), has also graciously agreed to join our team blog. You can read his full and very impressive biography, along with transcripts of several debates, on the SFU website here. Please welcome Dr. Ray Bradley! Your name Your email Subject Your … Please Welcome Raymond Bradley to the Secular Outpost
LINK: Atheist Philosopher Julian Baggini Labels New Atheism “Destructive”
(This is another one for the “not new, but new for me” category.) Julian Baggini, author of the excellent book, Atheism: A Very Short Introduction, explains that the four horseman of the new atheism is a “backwards step. It reinforces what I believe is a myth, that an atheist without a bishop to bash is … LINK: Atheist Philosopher Julian Baggini Labels New Atheism “Destructive”
LINK: Jason B. Thibodeau Comments on Flannagan, Coyne, and Explaining Morality
LINK Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)
Announcing New Index of Our Debates
You’ll notice on the menu bar near the top of The Secular Outpost site a link to “Our Debates.” If you click on that link, you’ll see an index of our debates on God’s existence, God and morality, and Christianity. If available, we provide links to the relevant video, audio, transcript, summary, and assessment. The … Announcing New Index of Our Debates
LINK: Dave Harker on A Surprise for Horwich (and Some Advocates of the Fine-Tuning Argument (which does not include Horwich (as far as I know)))
Abstract The judgment that a given event is epistemically improbable is necessary but insufficient for us to conclude that the event is surprising. Paul Horwich has argued that surprising events are, in addition, more probable given alternative background assumptions that are not themselves extremely improbable. I argue that Horwich’s definition fails to capture important features … LINK: Dave Harker on A Surprise for Horwich (and Some Advocates of the Fine-Tuning Argument (which does not include Horwich (as far as I know)))
Archbishop Says “Atheism is Cool?”
Apparently Brittain’s archbishop, Rowan Williams, has said that “atheism is cool,” as an explanation for why the Chuch of England finds it increasingly difficult to convey its message. Books by new atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens “get a high profile,” whereas “books that say Richard Dawkins is wrong don’t get the same kind of … Archbishop Says “Atheism is Cool?”