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Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 3): Deepities

February 14, 2014 by Randal

Chapter 2 of A Manual for Creating Atheists addresses the topic of “Faith”. In this installment I’m going to camp on pages 21-22 as I analyze Boghossian’s use of the concept of “deepity” and his list of alleged paradigm instances of deepitiness as regards faith. I’m camping on this brief section because it highlights effectively the degree […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: A Manual for Creating Atheists, Daniel Dennett, deepity, hermeneutics, Peter Boghossian, review

“That says it all for me!” Free thinkers who are the enemies of free thought

January 26, 2014 by Randal

Time and again I have encountered the inexplicably dull lack of awareness that so-called “skeptical free thinkers” have about their own double standards. As a case in point consider this comment posted just today in the thread to my article “The kalam cosmological argument and libertarian free will“. The comment comes from blogger Jonathan MS Pearce […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, Daniel Dennett, free thought, Jonathan Pearce, skepticism

And the first winner of the “Face-in-Palme d’Or” is…

November 8, 2011 by Randal

For a while I’ve been thinking of instituting a new award for the really bad comments on the blog. Not the boring-bad ones like “Your [sic] an idiot Rouser [sic]!” Rather, I’ve wanted to honor the occasional real stinker which gets things wrong in a really big way. Today I finally settled on a name, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Daniel Dennett, Face-in-Palme d'or

Is Daniel Dennett a conspiracy wingnut?

November 6, 2011 by Randal

You were raised a good conservative who faithfully listened to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity with your parents. You read all Ann Coulter’s books. You considered Michael Moore and all his ilk to be mealy-mouthed liberals. Then you enrolled in university and attended a public lecture from an articulate political scientist on the state of the economy. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: bullshit, conspiracy, Daniel Dennett, Harry Frankfurt, philosophical theology, philosophy of religion

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