Reading Time: 4 minutes At some point during our merry journey through secularism, we all encounter some benighted religious people who make arguments that only seem to work if you already accept their conclusions. Whenever Christians send messages about creationism to my atheism blog, they tend to be religious, faith-based arguments. I try to use scientific, evidence-based arguments in […]
Intelligent Design
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Did God Give You Kidney Stones?
Reading Time: 6 minutes I would like to introduce you to Matthew Sabatine who will contribute a few pieces that can also be found on his own blog – details below. Over to him: DNA is often given supernatural attributes and its uniqueness is often hard to separate from God as an origin. I have witnessed this understanding many […]
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How Useful is the Bacterial Flagellum for the Creationist?
Reading Time: 7 minutes The design checklist is finally used for what it was designed for, the bacterial flagellum. The results are in, and the flagellum gets a perfect score! But it needs a second opinion.
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Critiquing the Christian Design Checklist
Reading Time: 5 minutes How would a Creationist decide if life on earth was designed by a supernatural Designer? Let’s reconsider those eight attributes of designed things. The list doesn’t hold up as reliable and unbiased.
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Nice Try: the Christian Design Checklist
Reading Time: 4 minutes How would a Creationist decide if life on earth was designed by a supernatural Designer? Step 1: make a list of the attributes of designed things.
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Creationist Argument Refuted: Biological Cells as Complex Machines
Reading Time: 10 minutes We have had a good insight into the workings of creationists from the last post. Here is the core foundation to Angelo’s argument that I would like to take to task today: It is known that complex machines and factories are intelligently designed Biological cells are factories full of complex machines Biological cells are intelligently […]
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Paley’s Watchmaker and Arguing with Creationists
Reading Time: 15 minutes Last night, I did something I promised I wouldn’t do again. I stayed up until past 2 o’clock in the morning arguing with creationists on Facebook. Originally, I just thought they were normal theists. I don’t know how I “know” him, but this one particular theist posted a status on Facebook that went like this: […]
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Origins of Life
Reading Time: 6 minutes My old blogging compadre, Smilodon’s Retreat, recently chipped in on some abiogenesis chat on a few threads I posted. He has kindly let me repost an old piece of his that should have some relevance. It can be found in original for here at his home at SIN. It’s a few years old but still […]
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Abiogenesis: An Unsolved Mystery Is Not Evidence of a Creator
Reading Time: 9 minutes Logic of Science, which looks like a really interesting blog over here, gave me permission to repost this good synopsis of theists’ approach to abiogenesis in the context of the sort of Goddidit Argument from Ignorance we so often see, and have seen here from some commenters. Here is the summary, and thanks again: “Where […]
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Humans as the Epitome of Design
Reading Time: < 1 minute The idea that humanity is the epitome of design comes from the notion that God designed us, and given his OmniPowers, his design skills will be awesome (perfect, even). The perfect designed designs perfectly. God designed us, and so there must be some quality design going on. But we are a bit shit at a lot of […]