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It’s all in the brain
Book Review: The Crucible of Consciousness: An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain by Zoltan Torey Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: The MIT Press; Reprint edition (June 30, 2009) Language: English...
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Defending science and reason
Book Review: The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason by Victor Stenger Price: US$12.92 Paperback: 282 pages Publisher: Prometheus Books (September 22, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10:...
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Promoting confusion
A great feature of the scientific endeavour is that our ideas, hypotheses and theories are usually tested against reality. In fact we get very worried when we can’t do this. Consequently there has...
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A non-theist feast down under!
This just in from the organisers of the 2012 Global Atheist Convention —‘A Celebration of Reason’ Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens have been announced as speakers. (And have a look at the last...
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Daniel Dennett on conflict between religion and science
YouTube – 2/8 Daniel Dennett & John Haught & David Sloan Wilson on Religion. In this short video clip philosopher Daniel Dennett gives a succinct description of the history of religion and its...
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Theological mental gymnastics over evolution
Darwin Day is this weekend so I thought I should do a couple of relevant posts. Here I want to comment on a popular reaction to evolutionary science by mainstream Christians. I am referring to the...
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A disciplined discussion
I have commented several times that the debate format is very unsatisfactory and have favoured a discussion format for public discussion. Richard Dawkins has tried out a number of such discussion...
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The paradoxes of theological gullibility
Dr Maarten Boudry Maarten Boudry is a philosopher I will certainly read more of. His review of Alvin Plantinga‘s book, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, get’s right to...
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Scientists and philosophers discuss morality and meaning
I am working my way through the videos of the discussions at the Moving Naturalism Forward Workshop (see At last – Moving Naturalism Forward videos). I really appreciate these philosophical and...
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