If you’re curious about what can be said in response to the criticisms of religion launched by Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, don’t read Terry Eagleton’s new book Reason, Faith, and Revolution. As I’ve said before, I’ll take even Lee Strobel and William Lane Craig over most of the “why the New Atheists ™ are [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
A weird argument from Francis Collins’ BioLogos
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 12, 2009
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So, Francis Collins, using Templeton Foundation dollars, has set up a group called BioLogos to promote the harmony of science and religion. And, as Jerry Coyne points out, they’ve got some weird stuff on quantum mechanics: Even before Darwin’s contribution to biology, the scientific revolution in physics marked a tremendous advance in our understanding of [...]
Podcast, paradox, and carnivals
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 11, 2009
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Random bits: Yesterday, I appeared on the Minnesota Atheists’ radio show. Thanks to PZ for linking to it, and making me realize that there’s a podcast available for you to listen to Chris Heard has posted a nice illustration of the preface paradox. It fails to account, however, for the epilogue paradox. New editions of [...]
Matt Nisbet is pretty much full of shit
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 8, 2009
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I just got around to reading this Matt Nisbet piece on the supposed ethical impropriety of Dawkins et al., previously critiqued by a number of bloggers, including PZ. After reading through the article, trying to think of how to criticize Nisbet’s position, I’ve finally been forced to admit that that’s impossible because Nisbet doesn’t have [...]