arguments for atheism

Ten-Year Plan: Revised Scope

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I am going to start my Ten-Year Plan this year. However, I have decided to EXPAND the scope of the project; I will attempt to eat the whole enchilada, so ten years might not be enough time.  I wrote a previous post (offsite) on my Ten-Year Plan. The question at issue:  Is Christianity true or false? Here … Ten-Year Plan: Revised Scope

The Slaughter of the Canaanites – The Grand Inquisitor Jones – Part 3

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“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.” Carl Sandburg, in The People, Yes (1936) One response to my sixty objections against Clay Jones’s attempt to defend Jehovah’s command to the Israelites to … The Slaughter of the Canaanites – The Grand Inquisitor Jones – Part 3

The Slaughter of the Canaanites – The Grand Inquisitor Jones – Part 2

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“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.” Carl Sandburg, in The People, Yes (1936) One response to my sixty objections against Clay Jones’s attempt to defend Jehovah’s command to the Israelites to … The Slaughter of the Canaanites – The Grand Inquisitor Jones – Part 2

Scientific Evidence Against God’s Existence: A Reply to Joe Hinman

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In response to my recent blog post, “Six Findings from Experimental Science that Disconfirm Theism,” Joe Hinman (aka Metacrock) recently posted a rebuttal on his blog ‘AtheistWatch.’ 1. His post begins with a graphic which shows two pie charts, one showing the distribution of different religious beliefs among the general public and one showing that same distribution … Scientific Evidence <I>Against</I> God’s Existence: A Reply to Joe Hinman

Six Findings from Experimental Science Which Disconfirm Theism

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This post is a sequel to my 2013 post, “Scientific Discoveries, Theism, and Atheism: Reply to Wintery Knight.” In that post, I showed: Since Wintery Knight reposted his original 2013 post on experimental science and atheism–apparently with no edits whatsoever–I decided to post a follow-up reply. Here are six lines of experimental, scientific evidence which … Six Findings from Experimental Science Which Disconfirm Theism

Hypocrisy on Moral Arguments, Arguments from Evil, and Logical Inconsistency

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Many theists are fond of linking the problem of evil with a moral argument for God’s existence. The idea is that by making an argument from evil against God’s existence, the atheist has supposedly contradicted herself since the the argument from evil presupposes an objective evil and objective evil, in turn, presupposes God’s existence. Since … Hypocrisy on Moral Arguments, Arguments from Evil, and Logical Inconsistency

Belated Summary of 2013 London Talk, “What Apologists Don’t Want You to Know about God”

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In March 2013, I was honored to have the opportunity to speak to the Central London Humanists Group. The title of my talk was, “What Apologists Don’t Want You to Know about God.” There was no recording of the talk, but I was just made aware that someone in the audience had taken the trouble … Belated Summary of 2013 London Talk, “What Apologists Don’t Want You to Know about God”