>>>Another post from my second month of blogging. Probably the last one from that month I’ll post–it’s gradually dawning on me how little of my early blogging was worth much of anything. This is a post I’d write differently if I wrote it today. Largely because of the feelings expressed here, I’ve since sat down [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Humility: you’re doing it wrong
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 19, 2008
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From The American Scene, via Andrew Sullivan: For the last few months I have been subscribing to the RSS feed of Overcoming Bias, the blog of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute. I find very appealing the idea of a group blog dedicated to isolating and (if possible) rooting out the habits of mind that cause [...]
The /Kalam/ cosmological argument
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 18, 2008
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Last lecture, I briefly explained what’s wrong with a couple of simple, common arguments for the existence of God, including a form of the cosmological argument. It asks “why is there something rather than nothing?” or “where did the universe come from?” and runs into trouble on the question of why God exists and where [...]
Cool site idea: Lying for Jesus
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 17, 2008
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Thanks to John, I’ve discovered a new website called Lying for Jesus, which is designed to present concise rebuttals to the misinformation of Christian apologists. They accept submissions from anyone, so I’ll probably whip together some entries when I have the time.
Carnivalia
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 17, 2008
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I’ve two carnivals for ye today: the 107th tangled bank and the 71st Philosophers Karneval. You heard that right. Karneval. EDIT: I need to be more careful about making sure I’m in HTML mode when typing HTML.