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These three phenomena cover a wide array of activities and beliefs but share the same broad sense that they break away from what could be considered to be ‘natural’ and move towards trying to produce or support events that cannot be explained unless there is an [...]
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The common defences used by superstitions, religion and sometimes conspiracy theories. Rational thinking pushed aside!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 9/11 conspiracy, acupuncture, aliens, Belief, belief without evidence, believe, card reading, catholic church, Centre for Inquiry, Christian, claims of authority, common defences, Darwin, deduction, discussion, dowsing rods, empowerment, enlightenment, explanations, faith healers, fear, Ghost, ghosts, god, habit, homeopathic medicine, horoscopes, human rights, irrational, James Randi Foundation, knowledge, laws of nature, Logic, luck, metaphysical, metaphysical feelings, method, methods, personal feelings, possibility of it being true, Random, Rational, Reiki, Religion, rights, Science, science vs religion, societies, society, speak to the dead, Superstition, superstitions, theology, truth, UFO, ufo hunters, unchallenged, Understanding, unquestioning positions, western culture on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
An introduction to Religion, Superstition, the Metaphysical and Science!
Posted in Religion, Science, Superstition, tagged Belief, believe, card reading, Catholic, catholic church, child, children, Christian, church, creationists, discussion, empowerment, enlightenment, explainable, faith healers, family, fear, feedback, god, habit, homeopathic medicine, horoscopes, human rights, Introduction, islam, Jew, Jewish, knowledge, Logic, luck, metaphysical, metaphysical feelings, method, methods, Michael Shermer, multi-cultural societies, Muslim, personal feelings, Random, Rational, Reiki, Religion, Richard Dawkins, rights, Science, science is wrong, science vs religion, societies, society, speak to the dead, Superstition, theology, truth, Understanding on June 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There is an old Irish saying, religion is the superstition of fools and I cannot help but think that should be religion is the religion of fools! I will give religion one point though, not that I’m actually keeping a record of points awarded or anything, at least for the most part it is perhaps [...]
Rives – Oh one of them! And Graham Hancock…
Posted in Logic, Science, tagged Atlantis, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, Da Vinci code, evidence, Graham Hancock, illogical, Logic, luck, method, methodological, pattern, pattern seeking, pyramids, Random, reason, reasoning, Rive, Science, theory, Understanding on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rives highlights the one thing that really gets to me, there is a method that human brains normally use; they create patterns when there is just randomness. If you are thinking of someone and then the phone rings to only find that it is actually them, it’s nothing metaphysical or spooky it’s just random chance. [...]
Rational Understandings
All expressed here is only of my own opinion and does not represent the opinions or work of the authors, writers, lecturers or others I have made comments about. Offensive or abusive comments, e-mails or posts to my blog will be ignored and deleted, opposing opinion is always accepted. I have a new blog which can be found here: Rational Understanding Site.Recent Posts
- 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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