As the Worm Turns

The title of the post is “Why Liberals Loathe ‘The People’“, but for the life of me I can’t find an explanation of why liberals hate ‘The People.” At most, this McCullough guy produces some feeble evidence that liberals hate the people, leaving any explanation as to why to some unsupported, blanket assertions:
Regardless of partisan […]

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Being religious is incompatible with belief in Darwinism or modern biology. That’s the lesson of this Gallup poll. It’s big news and is filtering through all the atheist blogs. Starting with Pharyngula, of course.
For those too lazy to click through to the source material, what we have is this:

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. In fact, it […]

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I like bad arguments. I like them the same way “American Idol” fans like the contestants who can’t sing. The way NASCAR fans secretly like crashes. You’re not supposed to, but you do.
If you’re looking for bad arguments, the internet is the place to be. And on the internet, Human Events and Townhall.com are two […]

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There are good guys and there are bad guys. The good guys are — to my mind — those who think and reason about questions, trying to find true answers. The bad guys are those who think and reason in order to jury-rig and ad hoc justifications for their previously-held prejudices.
Mike S. Adams is a […]

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If you ask most atheists they’ll tell you that religious theists are somehow profoundly mistaken about their belief. Just ask Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and your local blog commenters.
But there are plenty of very smart, thoughtful theists with very strong answers to most atheist critiques of religion. So why do atheists think believers are deluded […]

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I’m going to “borrow” a post on the Florida Student Philosophy Blog because it illustrates my essential point about the relationship between reason and religious faith. (I will leave my relationship to the original posting intentionally vague, although the clever will be able to suss it out.)
Joe Long, an FSU Philosophy grad student, critiques Sam […]

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Previously I commented on a neo-creationist mistake about free will; ‘dacook’ on Uncommon Descent was under the impression that the possible discovery of free will in flies was somehow proof that scientific materialism was false.
Here we have the same mistake, but from the other direction: Philip Ball claims that, even if we do discover the […]

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The problem of Free Will isn’t really my bag, even though the Florida State University philosophy program is highly ranked in the area. But I do know one thing: the existence of free will doesn’t entail the falsity of materialism. So when we find evidence that even lowly insects show signs of free will, this […]

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