Reading Time: 6 minutes I was having a social media conversation with an old schoolfriend, MG, where he came to a fascinating conclusion; the chat went like this: MG: I’m a fervent atheist. In fact an anti-theist. But I have a counterpoint to the atheist argument which is strong…. My counterpoint is less a refute of the atheist position, more […]
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Infinity and God
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is an excerpt from James A. Lindsay’s book Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly committed to video by James and myself. The book looks at ideas of infinity and whether mathematics is conceptual and a human construction to help us navigate reality. William Lane Craig’s ideas about God’s infinity come in for some sound […]
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Quote of the Day: DoctorPlausible on Rain Dances and God
Reading Time: < 1 minute This comment was something I meant to post ages ago, and was put on a thread for one of my videos, linked below. It concerns the psychology, the function, of religion and thus God: Nice conversation. Pretty much my opinions on that. Sometimes I give the example of the rain dance, which goes likes this: […]
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God as an Abstraction
Reading Time: 4 minutes Some time ago, I finished John Loftus’ The Outsider Test for Faith. There is much to talk about within the pages, not least some of the excellent quotes he has gathered from other writers which he uses to defend his own positions on various topics. For the purposes of this post, I want to just think […]
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The Slipperiest Theological Slope – James A. Lindsay Responds on God and infinity
Reading Time: 9 minutes The other day, I posted a reivew by a Christian to James A. Lindsay’s book Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly. James has kindly taken time to respond to the claims made. It now follows. The Slipperiest Theological Slope Theology is a peculiar artform. It posits itself as an intellectual investigation of the […]
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“Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly” Great Christian Review, Admits God Cannot Be Infinite!
Reading Time: 7 minutes A few years back, I edited and published, through my skeptical imprint Onus Books the fantastic book on maths, infinity and God entitled Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly. James A. Lindsay has gone on to write a book for Pitchstone that has just been released, called Everybody Is Wrong About God, which is an equally […]
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Is God Infinite?
Reading Time: 4 minutes This post is from my friend James A. Lindsay, a PhD mathematician and counter-apologist. I edited his book Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly and really enjoyed it. The book is concerned with the nature of God and his claimed infinite properties. He has recently released another book called Everybody Is Wrong About God, which I […]
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James A. Lindsay interviewed – Again!
Reading Time: < 1 minute James A. Lindsay, who wrote Dot, Dot, Dot, with its foreword by the late Victor Stenger, has written another cracking book (with a foreword by Peter Boghossian). Here, I interview him about his new project. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMDmxI-Uz4Q[/youtube] The book and interview concern the psychology of religion. It’s a great chat – always a pleasure to speak […]
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Everybody Is Wrong About God
Reading Time: 5 minutes James A. Lindsay is author of Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly which is a book I edited and released on Onus Books. He has recently written a book due for imminent publishing called Everybody Is Wrong About God. I was lucky enough to see a draft version of the manuscript which I worked on with James. It’s great.
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Physicists Are Philosophers, Too
Reading Time: 3 minutes James A Lindsay, whose awesome book Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly I edited, recently penned an article with PEter Boghossian and the late Vic Stenger, which has just been released by Scientific American. The article is called “Physicists Are Philosophers, Too”.download (4)
Here is an excerpt: