Koukl is a religious man and the main point of disagreement is based upon the idea the new atheists make assumptions in order to make their argument work. In particular he attacks Dawkins in the God Delusion based on the summary on page 188, although it is clear that most likely [...]
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Greg Koukl attacks Dawkins by citing fallacies although he does not understand his own!
Posted in Religion, tagged argument, atheist movement, Atheists, Belief, bible, books, Catholic, catholic church, conflict, critical thinking, Dawkins, design, designed, designer, Earth, fallacies, god, Greg Koukl, knowledge, method, methods, misconceptions, model, reason, requirement for God, Richard Dawkins, Science, science vs religion, scientific theory, the God delusion, theology, truth, Understanding on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why do I attack religion so much – the role of justification within the new atheist movement!
Posted in Religion, tagged AAI, atheism, Atheists, Belief, believe, Benedict Groeschel, bible, Catholic, catholic church, children, Christian, church, conflict, Dawkins, divine, god, humanists, intellectual honesty, islam, Islamic law, Jew, Jewish, justifiable, justifiable to attack religion, Karen armstrong, Koran, law, new atheist movement, non-belief, non-believing, Rational, Religion, religious books, rights, Shmuley Boteach, societies, society, Understanding, violence on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I arrived at this debate whilst it was still going on, the new atheist movement had already started going through the motions before I picked up my copy of the God delusion and the debate about lack of evidence of God has been going for hundreds of years. My life prior to the God Delusion, [...]
There is something wrong with the new wave of atheists’ books! Hitchens, Harris and Dawkins are guilty of the same errors.
Posted in Religion, tagged atheist movement, Atheists, books, Catholic, catholic church, conflict, Dawkins, four horsemen, Harris, Hitchens, ideas, islam, Jew, Jewish, Melvin Konner, Muslim, Religion, Understanding on May 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Don’t get me wrong I really like these books and the world is a much better place with people like Dawkins and Hitchens in it. The attack on religion is an important one; it challenges yet again the position of religion and the role that it should take in our societies. It enables non-believers a [...]
Karen Armstrong – A case for compassionate religion and where it has gone wrong!
Posted in Religion, tagged anti-Islamic, Catholic, charter for compassion, christianity, church, compassion, compassionate, conflict, crazy, divine, extremists, faith, fundamentalists, god, Golden rule, Karen armstrong, passion, Religion, Ted, violent on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Karen Armstrong discusses in her Ted presentation the three Abrahamic religions, she is a well educated woman and although she is referring mostly to fundamental extremists I can’t help but apply it to the whole which means that I only agree in part with Armstrong’s points. She comments that compassion is the golden rule of [...]
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- A short introduction to the rather new ‘Atheist’ [antitheists] movement!
- The common defences used by superstitions, religion and sometimes conspiracy theories. Rational thinking pushed aside!
- The gay gene does not exist and is perhaps the tip of the most dangerous ideology ever!
- ‘Expelled: No Intelligence allowed’ is completely correct; there is no intelligence in it!
- Help stop Sharia Law in the UK
- Why Hitler and the Nazis are not examples of the fundamental problems caused by atheists!
- Greg Koukl attacks Dawkins by citing fallacies although he does not understand his own!
- Poor Ted Haggard simply a fool to himself!
- These are a few of my favourite Logical Fallacies!
- A major non-rational response to the MMR Vaccine’s potential threat!
- – It’s colder than you think –
- Why I really don’t like moderate religious people – mostly addresses Christian and Muslim responses to nonbelievers. (Part 1)
- An introduction to Religion, Superstition, the Metaphysical and Science!
- Induction – how science creates objective knowledge and how others get it completely wrong (Ghost Hunters)!
- Why do I attack religion so much – the role of justification within the new atheist movement!
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