Last month, Russell Blackford took part in a debate in the Australian “Intelligence Squared” series on the topic “atheists are wrong.” The video is now available on ABC’s website. There were six (!) speakers in the debate, and Russell was by far the best. Jane Caro was funny and made some good points, though her [...]
Category Archives: stupidity
The IQ2 debate: awful arguments from an archbishop
Posted by Chris Hallquist on October 7, 2011
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It’s not about tone
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 26, 2011
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I’ve written before about the relationship between content and tone, but there’s an angle I didn’t cover there: when people respond to criticisms of their content by saying “he shouldn’t complain about my tone because…” For example, here’s Ed Feser: Rosenhouse has a helluva nerve complaining about my aggressive tone. In the post that began [...]
The importance of quantifiers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 21, 2011
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I’ve been beating up on philosophy a lot here over the past few months, but if there’s one thing studying philosophy has taught me, it’s the importance of quantifiers. Consider an example sentence from Lester Hunt (a former philosophy professor of mine, incidentally): “Why do environmentalists seem unfazed by their mistaken, even grossly and absurdly [...]
William Lane Craig vs. cute teddy bear girl on morality
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 17, 2010
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There’s something about Xtranormal videos that makes almost any situation funnier. It occurred to me that this makes them a great vehicle for mocking the rhetoric of religious apologists. I want to emphasize that everything the Craig teddy bear says is based on things Craig actually has said. I relied especially on three books, each [...]
Wow the Colgate Twins are dumb
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 13, 2010
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Recently, Ophelia Benson has been giving the Colgate Twins a bit of a hard time about the fact that they had banned her from commenting on their blog, while they let another commenter call her a liar for months and only banned him once they realized he had been engaging in sock puppetry to boot. [...]