Christopher Hitchens Answers Some Questions

If you haven't already watched this it's worth looking at to understand what he thinks:

A More Insightful Critique of a Recent Post and My Response

A recent post, titled Based on This Argument Alone The Best Any Believer Can Claim is Agnosticism, has gained a lot of attention and been sidetracked by Christians who seek to defend their beliefs rather than think through it. To these Christians let me show you a much better way to argue your case, coming from a gay guy named Gaylord Martha Focker on Facebook, whose beliefs I can't say for sure, even if his his response is dead wrong:

Helen Fisher on Why We Love and Cheat

The provocatively titled blog by Leah Elliott Hauge called The Whore of All the Earth first linked to this brief but incredible TED talk. Fisher tells us of the science of lust, romantic love, and attachment, and it blows away the ancient Biblical understandings in several ways. View it and then let's count the number of ways this science destroys Biblical understandings, shall we? Once again it's Science vs Religion and once again believers will denigrate science. Go figure. How many times must they do this to believe?

Christian THINK: What About Your Friends and Family Who Will Be In Hell?

On Facebook I became a fan of the group "I may be going to hell but at least all my friends will be there." It's just a fun group and I can do fun. But then a Christian friend of mine and I got into a brief conversation about it:

Sam Harris Answers The Liberal Complaint Against the New Atheists

I really liked how Sam Harris answered Karen Armstrong's Foreign Policy article right here, although she got the last word. What's wrong with the liberals? Why don't they get it? Sam's sarcastic answer is a much better response than trying to reason with people like her, so it's better than my review of her book, The Case For God. But they just don't get it.

No Movement in Today's World Can Make a Difference Without Women, So Here's to Them ALL

Jen McCreight has complied a large list of awesome female atheists. Kudos to them and many thanks for all their efforts in our fight against superstition, pseudoscience, and ignorance. We need them! Let me rather say it this way: I'm glad to join with them in this common cause. So far her list includes:

On Brit Hume's Christian Advice to Tiger Woods: Hilarious!

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Even PZ Myers Power Cannot Win All Atheist Polls

PZ Myers has topped every atheist poll so far and isn't doing too bad as a write-in on the most influential female atheist of 2009. ;-) He creamed all challengers on my own most vocal atheist poll, and right now he's beating out everyone in the universe combined. Since he wins all polls here's one in the sidebar where he cannot win in every category! We've got him this time. So which will it be?

PZ Myers and Hemant Mehta Call for an Atheist Unity Convention

I support this wholeheartedly:

Austin Cline on "Why Don't Theists Believe What Atheists Tell Them About Atheism?"

Question: When atheists explain why they became atheists, what atheism is, and what atheism is not, religious theists (and especially Christians) often refuse to accept what they hear. This happens even when atheists just answer a specific question which they were asked. Why do theists behave this way? What can I do about it?

Christian THINK: That's All You Have to Do

Check out this video of "Noah's Ark and the Great Flood":

Christopher Hitchens Takes on the Liberals

Hear Christopher Hitchens interviewed by Unitarian minister Marilyn Sewell. He's defending the fundamentalist critique of liberalism. You see, I agree with the fundamentalist critique of liberalism, as well as the liberal critique of fundamentalism. I agree with the Catholic critique of Protestantism as well as the Protestant critique of Catholicism. They debunk themselves leaving us no reason to accept Christianity in any form. HT: Hemant Mehta.

One Last Biblioblogger List Done (W)Right for December

And lookee here. I bested all but two of them. Now that Jim West is off the market I only need to overtake J.L. Watts for the number one slot. Can it be done? I wonder how I could convince him that he is boring too. ;-)

Could it Be That Our Universe Never Had a Beginning?

Here is an interesting scenario I have wondered myself, so I'd appreciate any input on it since I'm not a scientist:

Global Peace Index Shows Atheistic Nations are More Peaceful.

A GPI comparison of theistic nations to atheist nations shows us that peace is non-theistic.

Debate of the Day: Alvin Plantinga vs. Jaco Gericke

Watch the following interview and then read what I consider a refutation of Reformed Epistemology by Dr. Jaco Gericke afterward. Who wins?

Take the Debunking Christianity Challenge in 2010

[Written by John W. Loftus] What I’m engaging in here at Debunking Christianity is a huge challenge. I like big challenges. So let me offer one to Christians...

An Open Letter to All Bibliobloggers

In light of the developments of the last week or more let me recap what has happened. See what you think. I’ll try to keep this brief as possible and I’ll number my points for easy reference, not that I have to, okay?

Based on This Argument Alone The Best Any Believer Can Claim is Agnosticism

That's right. For even if some kind of god exists the believer has no reasonable way to know anything about such a god, hence a theistic kind of agnosticism. dguller expressed this cogent argument very well in the comments:

"Noah's Ark" Was Not Rectangular Shaped. It Was Bowl Shaped

That's right. Not as pictured on the left but a bigger version of the one on the right:

See the story here. Now pseudo-apologists will start finding the remains of a big bowl boat in the mountains of Turkey, right? Right!

Listen to Top Notch Thinkers Interviewed

It looks like Luke over at Common Sense Atheism does one a month. Check them out.

Richard Swinburne on Probabilities and the Anthropic Principle

When I first read the selection below I was a believer and thought what Swinburne wrote on this topic in his book, The Existence of God (1979 ed.), was excellent. No longer do I think so.

A Step By Step Course in How Christians Argue Fallaciously

I had linked earlier to a site about Reasoning Fallacies. I think it's time to illustrate them with some real examples of how most Christians argue at DC in a series of short Blog posts. I'll illustrate several of the most blatant fallacies as I see them using that link's nomenclature. Don't get caught or I might write you up for it. ;-) This could be the beginnings of a book, we'll see!

Jesus Was My Invisible Babysitter by Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais describes why he became an atheist. Link. Gervais directed and starred in the comedy The Invention of Lying.

Christians Live in an Intellectual Box and Cannot Think Outside of it

Yep, that's true of most of them in my opinion. Here's exhibit "A" named Brad Haggard, and my response. Watch how easy this is because I am not in that box of theirs.