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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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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 »
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 [...]
A major non-rational response to the MMR Vaccine’s potential threat!
Posted in Science, tagged Andrew Wakefield, autism, believe, bowel disorder, child, children, consequences, context, dilemma, disease control, error, experiment, experimental, family, genetic predispositions, GMC, judgment, knowledge, Logic, measles, Media, mental retardation, method, methods, misconduct, MMR, mumps, potential harmful, Rational, Risk, rubella, Science, science is wrong, scientific theory, societies, society, truth, understandings, unvaccinated, Vaccine on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The MMR vaccine, an all-round method for protecting children against measles, mumps and rubella, was first used right at the end of the 1960’s it was clear to see it was an ever effective method of disease control. This vaccine was the result of scientific methods and the empowerment of people to see something that [...]
Why does science still grow when it can be so wrong? Why did science happen and take hold in Europe?
Posted in Logic, Science, tagged agenda, attitude, Ayer, body of knowledge, Carnap, comte, contradiction, enlightenment, eugenics, Europe, experiment, experimental, faith, history, history of science, human, improvements, induction, industrial revolution, knowledge, method, methods, misconceptions, model, nation states, Opticks, Religion, Science, science is wrong, society, Understanding, Vienna, world on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One thing that amazes me is that science tends to work quite often; I don’t need to tell you that you already know. The point here is that it tends to work, still there are places where the misunderstanding of science comes in, these are my thoughts on how science sometimes is not based upon [...]
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. [...]
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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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