Reading Time: 4 minutes I have to thank John Loftus (author, ex-minister and owner of the great Debunking Christianity blog) for giving me a leg up in the blogging world when, running a tiny independent version of the A Tippling Philosopher blog as I was, he allowed me to write for him there. From there, I was offered to help found the Skeptic Ink […]
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Posted inPhilosophy, Science
William Lane Craig Misrepresents and Strawmans CA on His Podcast, Denying Science
Reading Time: 2 minutes William Lane Craig and his obsequious co-host recently slammed Counter-Apologist and his criticisms of Craig’s use of time and the Kalam, in his recent podcast. Craig takes chap potshots at CA and is pretty disingenuous. I have red a transcript of CA’s upcoming reply, and he is spot on.
Check this video out as it will give you some background.
Posted inPhilosophy
Pearced Off! More Skepticule Counter-Apologetics Segments Out
Reading Time: < 1 minute I, as you may well know, contribute to the Skepticule podcast by recording a counter-apologetics segment for them, Pearced Off. My segment is always followed by an interesting discussion of ideas brought up by the ‘panel’ of Pauls.
Posted inArts, Books, The Secular
The Little Book of Unholy Questions Review
Reading Time: 4 minutes Here is another review to my Little Book of Unholy Questions – a 4/5 to add to six 5/5s. Er, buy it! (please… – click on the cover image to access it on amazon)
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Free Will, the Problem of Evil and Heaven and Christian commenters
Reading Time: < 1 minute I don’t know why, but Christians seem to be posting a few comments just now on some old videos of mine. The comments irritate me because they are not so well thought out. This ‘sombodysdad’ in particular… People seem to think they are all that and a bag of chips even though they present crappy […]
Posted inBooks, The Secular
Loftus has written some cracking books
Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s no secret that I am a big fan of John Loftus’ books. He has written some corkers. In fact, his class Why I Became an Atheist (or WIBA) is exactly that, a classic. It remains one of the best counter-apologetics books out there and was hugely significant in contributing to my movement toward being so interested in the philosophy of religion.
Let me go through them one by one.
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50 Great Myths About Atheism
Reading Time: 3 minutes Russell Blackford, one of the many superb writers we have here at SIN (over at The Hellfire Club) is going through a prolific writing period, a right purple patch. One of his recent titles just hitting the bookshelves and online retail listings is 50 Great Myths of Atheism.
Here is the book description from the back cover:
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Apologist Knechtle owned in debate with Beahan
Reading Time: < 1 minute SO this is a few years old now, but this debate is great. Jeremy Beahan, presenter on Reasonable Doubts podcast and radio show, calmly deconstructs every argument this rather smarmy apologist gives. I enjoyed listening to this one, and I hope to hear Beahan do more debates. Good stuff.
Posted inThe Secular
Tooley vs William Lane Craig – a short review
Reading Time: 4 minutes So I came across this debate between Dr Michael Tooley, a philosopher, and William Lane Craig, which can be seen here:
This was a cracking debate based on the fact that Tooley was a philosopher, and prepared. Let me say that again. He was prepared. He had done his homework.
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Interview with skydivephil, creator of superb videos
Reading Time: 8 minutes Many of you will have come across the superb videos of skydivephil on You Tube and embedded across various forums. That is, unless you have had your heads buried in the sand. I first came across them when they critiqued william Lane Craig on the Kalam Cosmological Argument as can be seen here: