Preamble This is part 2 of my response to Reasonable Doubts “Episode 121: Divine Deception with guest Erik Wielenberg“. As you may know, Part 1 was an episode in The Tentative Apologist Podcast and my intention was that Part 2 would be as well. Indeed, my original intention was to release part 2 at the […]
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The Evidential Problem of Evil (Part 2)
Cosmos meets Logos: If Carl Sagan had been a conservative Christian
I don’t know if you ever stopped to ask yourself, “What would the original ‘Cosmos’ have been like if Carl Sagan had been a conservative Christian?” Well now you know. Check out this very clever satire by Reasonable Doubts Podcast with Sagan’s doppelganger being voiced by Jeremy Beahan who, based on this performance, could have […]
50. The Evidential Problem of Evil (Part 1)
William Rowe tells the story of a fawn (think Bambi) severely burnt in a forest fire and left to die slowly over several days amidst the burning embers of the ravaged forest floor. It’s just one fawn, right? Who cares? But if God really is all-good and all-powerful then presumably he would not allow gratuitous […]
Are all atheists irrational?
When I was invited to debate Chris Hallquist on the question “Is theism irrational?” I had one important reservation. The very topic of debate was reflective of an extreme fringe view. It is the same reservation that any person familiar with the mainstream of informed opinion on a particular topic (e.g. climate change, Shakespearean authorship) […]
The rationality of theism and the problem of evil
As I noted in the comment thread of “Is belief in God rational? My Reasonable Doubts Debate with Chris Hallquist,” my contribution to the debate has received a vicious and ill-informed response from commenters at “Reasonable Doubts”. However, one commenter named Michael did offer a courteous and thoughtful comment in response to my article which I […]
Is belief in God rational? My Reasonable Doubts debate with Chris Hallquist
Just over a year ago I did my first debate with Reasonable Doubts. The debate was on the nativity with Jonathan Pearce and is available for viewing here: That debate was such a smashing success 🙂 that I was invited back for another debate. The topic was the rationality of theism and my debating opponent […]
A final critique of Luke Galen’s Statement on religiosity and bias
Close to a week ago now Luke Galen posted a statement in the discussion thread to “Reality is just like you think” which appeared to me as an outrageous statement he can’t defend which reveals something significant about his approach to the issue of bias and “religiosity”. This is going to be my last treatment […]
Puffing up the studies? Another response to Luke Galen
It looks like I can’t yet move beyond my disagreement with Luke Galen. Yesterday in the midst of a comment responding to Rob Gressis in the thread “Religiosity never leads to a decrease in bias? Reasonable doubts about Luke Galen” Luke observed: “Based on the title of this ridiculous blog page, some people are unable […]
Now Dave Fletcher doesn’t care for my glasses. When will the personal attacks stop?!
First Dave Fletcher picked on my head. Now he’s picking on my glasses! Surely this is going too far! Did I ask to have OD (i.e. right eye) 2.50-100×075 and OS (left eye) 1.25-0.75×100? The worst part is that my glasses can’t speak for themselves. They didn’t ask to be pulled into this dispute. […]
Religiosity never leads to a decrease in bias? Reasonable doubts about Luke Galen
As a preface to this article let me emphasize that I have no antipathy toward the Reasonable Doubts Doubtcasters. I do think, however, that Luke Galen has made some extraordinary claims which are open to critical analysis and refutation, and I offer this critique in the spirit of open dialogue and mutual truth-seeking. * * […]
Reasonable insults?
A couple days ago I wrote an article offering a friendly critique of the Reasonable Doubts podcast.  In particular, I worried about the practice of dividing people into basic divisions (e.g. “religious” and “non-religious”) and then suggesting that one side is more rational than the other. We all have cognitive bias, I said. We all […]
Reality is just like you think: More reasonable doubts about Reasonable Doubts
A couple weeks ago I stated my intention to offer a criticism of the final section of the “Reasonable Doubts” podcast titled “God thinks like you.” The focus is the naivetĂ© of religious people who think God is just like them. What most bothers me about this segment is not what it does say, but […]
A Word from Justin Schieber
This is a guest post courtesy of Justin Schieber (his third in a month!). One more and I’ll have to put him on the payroll. Justin here offers a reply to my challenge to the Reasonable Doubts doubtcasters to demonstrate how Christian beliefs are clearly false. This thoughtful statement is yet more evidence why, whatever […]
