As the Worm Turns

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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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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All the cool kids (Hat Tip) are doing it, so here I go:

 
You scored as Militant Atheist, Willing to take theists to task, the Militant Atheist is someone who knows deep within themselves that there is no god and they want to tell you all about how they know. Even though they’re as annoying in […]

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