Is This Your Brain On God? Which States Ban Atheists from Holding Public Office? | Friendly Atheist. Believers' estimates of God's beliefs are more egocentric than estimates of other people's beliefs. Another Atheist - Generic Answer: Learn What A Scientific Theory Is! - Generic Answer: Learn What A Scientific Theory Is! Belief in Evolution Versus National Wealth. God Hates Sinners! - This site is a poe. The Intelligence² Debate - Stephen Fry (Unedited) - a Film & TV video. Truth-Saves. The Atheist Dawn. Today In History… Unfollowing Jesus - Poking Fun At Religion With A Really Big Stick. Think Atheist.
Delightful Quotes. Why Atheism? Just about everyone is an atheist when it comes to other gods — the gods that other people believe in or that nobody believes in anymore. I’m an atheist about all gods because there's no reliable evidence for any god, or even for Jesus. There is also extensive evidence that Jesus and all gods are fictional characters — myths created mainly by people who had little understanding of how our universe operates. We all like myths and other stories, but we don't have to believe them. Let’s start with a quick experiment. You can grab three coins and actually do the experiment, or just do a thought experiment. Drop one coin and watch it fall. If you were to the release third coin, what do you think would happen? Our understanding of the world around us, and our abilities to predict what will happen are based on naturalism — the basis of science.
To be explicit, modern science relies on methodological naturalism. In “Cosmos” Neil deGrasse Tyson explained the basic rules of science. Dr. Embryology. I Think Therefore I am an Atheist | Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc. This heading is a compilation of the words of René Descartes and my partner Lee. A mixture of aged wisdom and contemporary thought that goes very well together indeed. René of course meant that because he can think, he therefore must exist to be able to do so.
Lee goes a little further, stating that the end result of rational thinking has to conclude that the existence of a god is only an unproven and unprovable concept. Put very simply, that is what all supernatural notions are. They are conceived in the minds of adults because we have an innate ability to do so, and then the minds of the young are indoctrinated in endless generational repetition. The intelligent make no claims of proof of god. This is unlike the many who are unaware that critical thinking procedures are not an inbuilt part of evolutionary reasoning ability.
The critical thinking that is required to conclude there is no God is remarkably simple. All creatures specialize in some way to maximise survival. Logical Fallacies and How to Spot Them. Logical Fallacies and How to Spot Them In the Evolution vs. Creationism debate, it is important to be able to spot all the logical fallacies that Creationists tend to throw around.
This essay covers many bare essentials of logical thinking, as well as ways to critically evaluate an argument. The logical fallacies listed here are the ones most often used by Creationists, although Creationists have, to date, used almost every single logical fallacy in existence to "prove" their case. THE STRAWMAN ATTACK: The strawman is, perhaps, the most heavily-employed tactic used by Creationists. "Evolution is a ridiculous theory! This is an example of a strawman attack. Spotting a strawman attack isn't that hard. Strawman attacks, once exposed for what they are, are not all that difficult to counter.
THE FALSE DILEMMA FALLACY: The false dilemma is at the heart of the Creationist argument. If you look carefully, you'll also notice the strawman attack. "Isaac Newton was a believer in Creation. Bible Absurdities: Absurdities in the Bible. Links to other articles in this series: Key to Abbreviations Introduction to the Bible and Biblical Problems Fatal Bible Flaws? Bible Atrocities Bible Inconsistencies: Bible Contradictions? Bible Precepts: Questionable Guidelines Bible Vulgarities NOTE: These lists are meant to identify possible problems in the Bible, especially problems which are inherent in a literalist or fundamentalist interpretation. Some of the selections may be resolvable on certain interpretations--after all, almost any problem can be eliminated with suitable rationalizations--but it is the reader's obligation to test this possibility and to decide whether it really makes appropriate sense to do this.
To help readers in this task, these lists are aimed at presenting examples where problems may exist given certain allowable (but not always obligatory) assumptions. GE 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven(s) and the earth. " GE 1:3-5, 14-19 There was light ("night and day") before there was a sun. Bay of Fundie. CoffeeGhost. Dangerous Talk. Blow Me Away. Fundies Say the Darndest Things! Textbook disclaimer stickers. This post is for people tracking the bizarre ethical slide of The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc. (CPBR). As you probably know from my earlier posts, CPBR sends out a yearly invitation to plant biotechnology researchers to submit grant proposals.
Part of the emailed PDF has instructions on how to make a scientific poster, and a big part of that section was created by copying/pasting text from my page on the topic (but with no quotation marks and no attribution). Because I happen to have an official copyright registration on my poster design page, the PDF is in violation of U.S. copyright law. So, in addition to being able to sue CPBR rather easily, I can can also use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to send Notifications of Copyright Infringement (NOCIs) to have the CPBR document (PDF and any paper copies) destroyed. So here’s what I’ve done. I’ve asked every member university to delete the PDF when received from CPBR. . — Schumacher, D. 1989.