I’m scratching my head over a libertarian-bashing post by PZ Myers. The current political environment in the U.S. is so strange to me: when I think about the recently health-care reform, I mostly think about how no one opposed publicly funded education and how Europeans and Canadians seem pretty happy with their system, even if [...]
Category Archives: stupidity
How many people actually think socialism is a good idea?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 1, 2010
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How stupid do you have to be to be a Christian apologist?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 24, 2010
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From Vic Reppert: I talked about this in an earlier thread. With Islam, you have to take Muhammad’s word for it that he was touched by an angel. Same with Mormonism and Joseph Smith. With Christianity, you have a pre-crucifixion story where Jesus is supposed to have performed miracles in public. Did these miracles happen? [...]
A perfect coincidence
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 21, 2010
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Two things that showed up in my RSS feed reader today. One a quote from Karl Popper: Faith in reason is not only faith in our own reason but also — and even more — in that of others. Thus a rationalist, even if he believes himself to be intellectually superior to others, will reject [...]
Most US Protestants belong to creationist denominations
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 11, 2010
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Jerry Coyne criticizes a study that makes a big deal of the fact that 63% of believers in the U.S. belong to religious organizations that are officially pro-evolution. Coyne rightly points out that even in pro-evolution denominations, lots of believers in the pews have creationist sympathies. He only briefly mentions, however, the fact that “This [...]
Tone vs. Content
Posted by Chris Hallquist on May 9, 2010
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Russell Blackford has a post arguing that tone is important, even if a lot of the things people say about tone are foolish: For these sorts of reasons, intelligent discussion of tone is always in order. The problem is likely to be that a lot of discussion of tone is just not very intelligent – [...]