“Does God Exist?” August 2, 2007
Posted by Joe in Christianity, agnosticism, atheism, belief, evidence, fallacy, freethought, god, logic, morality, religion, skepticism, theism.20 comments
Here are notes I made while reading William Lane Craig’s “Does God Exist?“
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Atheism does not imply meaninglessness.
Atheism does not imply lack of hope for a better future. (It does put the onus of making the future better on us.)
Even if there is a god there is no “deliverance from aging, disease, and death”. Even if there is an eternal afterlife in paradise we still age, disease, and die.
Humanism, a first look July 27, 2007
Posted by Joe in Humanism, atheism, belief, ethics, freethought, life, morality, politics, skepticism.3 comments
I do not wish to define myself by what I am not. This is my largest problem with the term atheist. It is a statement of something I do not believe, but really doesn’t say anything more than that. So I am seriously looking into Humanism for the first time.
If you have any experience or knowledge of Humanism, please share.
Strong vs. Weak July 13, 2007
Posted by Joe in agnosticism, atheism, belief, evidence, freethought, god, psychology, skepticism, theism.19 comments
Some atheists often separate themselves into two subtly distinct groups; the “weak” atheists and the “strong” atheists.
Weak atheism is defined as a lack of belief in any god or gods. They haven’t seen compelling evidence that a god exists so their default stance is not to form any god belief.
Strong atheism is a positive belief that there is no god. They have an actual belief that no god exists
It’s the evidence! July 9, 2007
Posted by Joe in atheism, belief, creationism, evidence, evolution, freethought, science, skepticism.55 comments
I entered a discussion on the teaching of evolution with some creationists here. Why’d I bother? I’m not yet sure.
I struggled to get across the idea that hollow assertions on a blog shouldn’t be enough to convince anyone about any theory of the real world. (and yet was still accused of wanting them to accept evolution on the weight of my assertions alone!) Pure reason can tell us nothing about the real world! Only actual evidence and data collected from it can tell us what it is really like.
