As I noted last time, Thom Stark concludes his acknowledgements with the following: “After having written a book about the nature of the knowledge of God, I can safely say that the only thing I know for certain is that I love my ladies.” (xx) I mentioned Aaron Neville with respect to this (“Don’t Know […]
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Entomophobia meets Reason: A teachable moment
Jerry Rivard responded to my criticism of the terrible advice Dawkins gave to his daughter by asking: “So what would your advice be to your daughter?” Good question. Here’s an eminently practical response. Just this morning we were driving along when my nine year old began “freaking out” in the back seat. “What is it?” I […]
Dawkins’ infinite regress and why it really matters
Over the last several days I have launched several important charges against Richard Dawkins’ letter to his daughter . These critiques have been, for the most part, simply ignored by the many enthusiasic Dawkins apologists who have lept to his defense this week. So I am going to slow right down and lay out a […]
Richard Dawkins’ foolish advice to his daughter
Thanks to Beetle for linking us to Richard Dawkins’ advice to his then ten year old daughter. I call it foolish because any advice that is self-referentially defeating is foolish. First, Dawkins tells his daughter: “Something that you learn by direct seeing (or hearing or feeling…) is called an observation. Often evidence isn’t just observation […]
Faith and Reason at War? A time for repentance and reconciliation
I should have included this in my last post, but better late than never. If you have ever promoted the faith and reason at war myth, and you have come to the point of admitting that you cannot defend that language then the time has come for repentance and reconciliation. To repent is to express […]
Faith versus Reason? A call for an end to the warfare myth
The other day in the comment thread for “Petitionary prayer and the final hours of a Skoal hockey puck” AcesLucky made the kind of comment that really irks me. It was like hearing a Russian make a snide comment about the cold winters in Canada. Here is the offending comment: “It’s not meant to be true, it’s […]
“To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained.”
Ray Ingles provided this quote from “The Doctor” in my post “On Taking an Objective Approach to Inexplicable Events“. This is an interesting claim. It first begs interpretation. I take there to be the following two basic possibilities: (1) The rational person believes that every object, event or state of affairs has some explanation for why it […]
Is “biblical Christianity” the only rational worldview? (And is atheism wicked?)
Yesterday David Parker provided us with a link to “triablogue“. Once there I read this: “While atheism is wicked, I truly appreciated Azrienoch’s logical rigor and consistency. His analysis only confirms what I’ve been saying for years, which goes something like this: If you are logically consistent and want to have a worldview that can […]
