Reading Time: 4 minutes People who make self-destructive choices aren’t just stupid. Often, their minds have been poisoned with bad information.
Epistemology
Posted inPhilosophy
Breaching the Epistemic Barrier
Reading Time: 5 minutes I recently wrote an important piece explaining the foundations to my entire worldview. Go read it. I’ll remind you of the impressive infographics I got my design department to put together: The last one illustrates how, when being moral or thinking something about the character or attributes of God, it is impossible to know whether […]
Posted inEthics and Morality, Philosophy
The Foundation to My Whole Worldview
Reading Time: 8 minutes In a sense, this is about the most important piece I can write because out of it comes my whole philosophy. What you are about to read pertains to any abstract object: morality, meaning (of life or words), maths, purpose, and so on. I am just about to release a new book called Why I […]
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Social Media Vs Mainstream Media: There is No “Vs”, the Lines Are Blurred
Reading Time: 2 minutes The long and the short of it: they are both the same, only separated (in the UK at least) by regulation. “News organisations” is another term for “information source”, which is a far more nebulous and in some sense accurate term. The modern person gets their information (some of which could be arbitrarily labelled “news”) […]
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Faith as a Foundation for Belief
Reading Time: < 1 minute Short one today, as I am being interviewed by Harmonic Atheist (Tim Mills) on the Resurrection AND giving a presentation to Florida Atheists on the same topic tonight. This: Discuss. Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher You can also buy me a cuppa. Or buy some of my awesome […]
Posted inEthics and Morality, The Secular
Quote of the Day: DC Kurtz on Moral Nihilism
Reading Time: 5 minutes On the recent thread on CS Lewis, DC Kurtz stated this: As an outspoken moral nihlist (I firmly believe that objective morality does not exist) I get recommended Lewis’s work a lot. And I was astonished at how poorly constructed his core arguments for moral reasoning are. They’re sophomoric thinly-veiled “gotcha” attempts that are designed […]
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Genuinely Good News for Fans of Truth
Reading Time: 2 minutes With a couple of bars of holiday WiFi, here’s one I almost finished previously… This is great news. Yes, admittedly, I love the Guardian, but I love it precisely because I see it as more accurate than any other UK media News source. This is particularly true now that the Telegraph and Times appear to […]
Posted inHistory
Dr Joshua Bowen Interviewed on ANE, Bible, Epistemology, Atheism, MS & Hammurabi-Rockets
Reading Time: < 1 minute I loved this interview. We covered loads of ground discussing biblical exegesis, the Old Testament, epistemology, atheism, fallacies, the ANE, Bezos’ knob-rocket, and then moved on to talking about personal issues as we both suffer with multiple sclerosis and twins… 😉 Dr Josh Bowen will be writing the foreword to my forthcoming book on the […]
Posted inHealth
Talking with my taxi driver – thoughts on “sufficient evidence” and a lesson in what persuades people
Reading Time: 4 minutes Cynthia, who has provided guest posts in the past, sent me another one, but it got lost in my inbox. Sorry! So this is a little overdue, but should still be of interest. Thanks so much – and if ever you want to provide guest posts, please don’t be afraid to do so. Talking with […]
Posted inScience
Disputing Miracles vs Disputing History (II)
Reading Time: 4 minutes This comment was left on a thread a few weeks ago: John, why dispute these facts and not go right for the miracles? Because, if miracles are possible, if it’s possible to extract water from a stone and part the sea, then it’s possible that Moses’ mother had a magical pitch pit in her back […]