Earlier this month (April 8th, to be exact), Antony Flew died. The best thing I’ve seen on his death is by Keith Parsons: I rank Flew as second only to Bertrand Russell as a writer of pellucid, witty, and penetrating philosophical prose, and Flew’s treatment of the theistic arguments was far deeper and more rigorous [...]
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Massimo Pigliucci is a childish, raging, foaming at the mouth fundamentalist with a cavalier attitude toward the substance, rationality and coherence of his arguments
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 16, 2010
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Yesterday, Massimo Pigliucci wrote a post titled “PZ Myers is a witless wanker who peddles pablum.” Pigliucci says he didn’t really mean it, but was just imitating PZ’s overblown rhetoric to make the point that it’s a bad thing. My title is an imitation of Massimo’s approach to post-titling, since he uses all the words [...]
The “who made God?” objection
Posted by Chris Hallquist on March 24, 2010
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Luke Muehlhauser just put up an interview transcript under the heading What I Think of the New Atheists, where among other things he brings up the complaint that “who made God?” is a bad response to theistic arguments, because things cited in explanations don’t themselves need to be explanations for the explanation to be a [...]
Bizarre article on CFI’s website
Posted by Chris Hallquist on March 20, 2010
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I just noticed a bizarre article on the Center for Inquiry’s website titled “The Problems With the Atheistic Approach to the World” by Michael De Dora Jr., who’s described as the executive director for the New York City Branch of the Center for Inquiry. Jerry Coyne has claimed the article as evidence that CFI “seems [...]