Atheism

Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?

http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2010/10/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing/

http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2011/03/why-is-there-something-rather-than-nothing-the-only-six-options/

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“Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence“

http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Christ+meets+Bigfoot+More+irreverent+atheist+Canadian+cities/3913741/story.html

[ Maybe that's true , but since there isn't even any ordinary evidence for the essential claims of Christianity, why should we believe any of them?]

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Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?

http://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2012/06/22/do-extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence-part-1/

http://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2012/06/25/do-extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence-part-2/

http://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2012/06/27/do-extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence-part-3/

http://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2012/06/29/do-extraordinary-claims-require-extraordinary-evidence-part-4/

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Is Extraordinary Evidence Needed to Prove the Resurrection?

http://www.toughquestionsanswered.org/2009/09/08/is-extraordinary-evidence-needed-to-prove-the-resurrection/

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Welcome to the “Necessary Being” interactive survey

http://www.necessarybeing.net/

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Is God Just a Psychological Crutch for the Weak?

http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/201203/201203_112_Is_God_crutch.cfm

[ Nobody Important wonders why Dr. Copan didn't mention what Greg Koukl and Simon Wenham do.]

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Approaching the Existence of God

http://chab123.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/approaching-the-existence-of-god/

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Is the ‘God Hypothesis’ a Good One if We Can’t Observe That Which It Proposes?

http://ratiochristi.org/uk/blog/post/is-the-god-hypothesis-a-good-one-if-we-cant-observe-it

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“[Many atheists claim that they] don’t bear the burden of proof in the question of God’s existence because they merely lack the belief in God.”

http://elliottroland.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/burden-of-proof/

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Who Made God?

If God Made the Universe, Who Made God?

http://chab123.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/if-god-made-the-universe-who-made-god-by-paul-copan/

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“[Atheists often] insist that… God MUST be created. At this point they are not allowing the theist to have an eternal entity in their worldview unless that eternal entity is not God. But, if the atheist is not allowing God as part of the worldview they are critiquing, they are not critiquing theism. They are, in fact, critiquing their own atheism.“

http://lukenixblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/who-created-god.html

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“Some people just never want to be convinced.“

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5XsgJp9g4

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Theistic Critiques Of Atheism

http://www.reasonablefaith.org/theistic-critiques-of-atheism

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Two Sources of the Knowledge of God

http://meeknessandtruth.org/tools/articles/TwoSourcesofKnowledgeofGod.pdf

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Reason & Rationality:

Can We Know Anything if Naturalism is True?

http://www.epsociety.org/userfiles/art-Gould%20%28Comments%20on%20Smith%20Naturalism%20and%20Knowl%29.pdf

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“Chemicals can’t evaluate whether or not a theory is true. Chemicals don’t reason, they react.”

http://crossexamined.org/articles-detail.asp?ID=73&Title=Why%20Trust%20Reason%20if%20You%27re%20an%20Atheist?

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A Rational Analysis of Atheism

http://www.atheism-analyzed.net/book2.htm

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On the terms of the New Atheists, the very concept of rationality becomes nonsensical.

http://www.patheos.com/Evangelical/Atheists-Own-the-Market-on-Reason-Scott-Smith-05-04-2012.html

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“Naturalism, simply put, leaves us no reason whatsoever to think that any of our beliefs are reliable… such as a belief in naturalism.“

http://www.godevidence.com/2012/07/atheism-vs-theism/

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“If [an atheist] says that the universe lacks an explanation for its existence, how do[es he/she] know this?“

http://bibowen.hubpages.com/hub/why-does-the-universe-exist

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1. Atheism leads to determinism.

2. Determinism denies that we are rational agents, that reasons affect our thinking, and that we can choose to change our minds.

3. Therefore atheism leads to the denial of reason.

http://www.reasonsforgod.org/2011/05/atheism-and-the-denial-of-reason/

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Determinism: an idea that just won’t fly

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/determinism-an-idea-that-just-wont-fly/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+uncommondescent%2FJCWn+%28Uncommon+Descent%29

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“It certainly is reasonable to suggest that if there is a God, He would make available to us evidence adequate to the task of proving His existence. But does such evidence exist? And if it does, what is the nature of that evidence?“

http://www.apologeticspress.org/pdfs/e-books_pdf/cfeog.pdf

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The New Atheists Are Not Intellectually Bright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8__UWuj8Do&feature=player_embedded

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The Lord of Non-Contradiction:

An Argument for God from Logic

http://www.proginosko.com/docs/The_Lord_of_Non-Contradiction.pdf

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The Argument from Reason

“… one cannot accept both a materialist worldview and the claim that someone has reached the conclusion that materialism is true on the basis of argument only if mental states exist as a matter of physical structure.“

http://www.lewissociety.org/reason.php

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“Without presupposing the existence of God, one cannot account for analytic assessments.“

http://thelordgodexists.com/2012/12/reson-requires-god-kants-transcendental-program-falls-short/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reson-requires-god-kants-transcendental-program-falls-short

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“… if Moran had wanted to find out whether Craig’s arguments were respected or not, there were several easy avenues of investigation open to him.“

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/larry-moran-asks-do-philosophers-take-william-lane-craigs-arguments-seriously/

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The Laws of Logic are a Christian Actuality & Truth Reality

http://thelordgodexists.com/2012/06/the-laws-of-logic-are-a-christian-actuality-truth-reality/

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Some atheists say Christianity is just a crutch. But the axe cuts both ways.

https://www.facebook.com/RatioChristiOhioStateU/posts/411145865634520

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God Has Not Revealed Himself to Me, So He Must Not Exist

http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/notseegod.html

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A Look at Two Common Atheist Arguments

http://blogs.christianpost.com/confident-christian/a-look-at-two-common-atheist-arguments-13533/

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Loftus’ faulty argument for atheism gets an F double minus

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/loftus-faulty-argument-for-atheism-gets-an-f-double-minus/

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2012 “Reason” Rally:

“Richard Dawkins, P.Z. Myers and other New Atheists [held] a ‘Reason Rally’ in Washington, D.C. on March 24. They [billed] it as ‘the largest gathering of the secular movement in world history,’ and they [used] it to trumpet their message that reasonable people reject belief in God.“

http://rally.truereason.org/

[ Nobody Important was there.]

[Really.]

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Reasoning on Atheistic “Reasoning”

http://www.scribd.com/doc/86529353

[That brief was compiled by Nobody Important and offered to many atheists at the March 24, 2012 "Reason" Rally in Washington, D.C.. You could count on one hand the number atheists who were open-minded enough to even look at it, let alone take it with them and examine the evidence it (and the e-book from which it was compiled) presented.]

[Hmm...]

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Defending Sexism at The Reason Rally

http://www.reasonsforgod.org/2012/03/defending-sexism-at-the-reason-rally/

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TWO DOZEN (OR SO) THEISTIC ARGUMENTS

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/philosophy/virtual_library/articles/plantinga_alvin/two_dozen_or_so_theistic_arguments.pdf

[Dr. Plantinga, for those who don't know, is a professor of philosophy (emeritus) at Notre Dame University.]

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William Lane Craig:

Theistic Critiques Of Atheism

http://www.reasonablefaith.org/theistic-critiques-of-atheism

[Dr. Craig, for those who don't know, is a professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology.]

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God Is Not Dead Yet

How current philosophers argue for his existence.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/july/13.22.html?paging=off

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“The very religion [atheists] revile is the only worldview that makes their existence meaningful and worthwhile…“

http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/sodomy-christianity-and-atheism.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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Religious Lies:

“[Religious] ‘scams’ include telling people how to live and taking their money ‘all in exchange for an afterlife that does not exist.’“

http://blog.al.com/living-times/2010/12/you_know_american_atheists_nat.html

[ Amen to that . All religions are just scams designed to enslave people into gross intellectual ignorance and self-referential “moralism” while snarfing money out of their pockets.]

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Robert Price

The Price of Playing with a Bulldog

http://www.tektonics.org/ezine/pricecase/pricecaseindex.html

Robert Price’s “By This Time He Stinketh”: A Critique

http://www.tektonics.org/lp/pricer06.html

Robert Price’s Beyond Born Again: A Critique

http://www.tektonics.org/lp/pricer02.html

A Somewhat Lengthy Response to Price’s The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man

http://www.shenvi.org/Essays/PriceResponse.htm

On Robert Price’s Review of The Impossible Faith or, How Not to Start an Ancient Religion

http://www.tektonics.org/lp/nwjprice.html

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Richard Carrier

Responses to Richard Carrier’s Claims

http://www.tektonics.org/print.php4

A Critical Review of Richard Carrier’s Sense & Goodness Without God

http://www.answeringinfidels.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=76

Debate: The Resurrection of Jesus – (2 of 2) (Mike Licona vs Richard Carrier)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EGrzxkozVU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV3LFOPcnc

Richard Carrier Speaks Out About the Resurrection

http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/fundamentalist-theologian-richard-carrier-speaks-out-about-resurrection

Richard Carrier on the Resurrection

http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2011/richard-carrier-on-the-resurrection-part-1/

http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2012/richard-carrier-on-the-resurrection-part-2/

Does Richard Carrier Exist?

http://www.beretta-online.com/wordpress/2012/does-richard-carrier-exist/

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[Atheists] Trying to deny the existence of atheist fundamentalism

http://shadowtolight.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/trying-to-deny-the-existence-of-atheist-fundamentalism/

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Religious History:

“The billboard, which is being jointly sponsored by the PA Nonbelievers and the American Atheists, will show an African-American slave wearing a restraining device just below a quote from Colossians 3:22, which says, ‘Slaves, obey your masters.‘”

http://www.christianpost.com/news/atheist-billboard-to-protest-pennsylvanias-year-of-the-bible-70724/print.html

[Yeah, isn't amazing how stupid Christians are when it comes to their own Bible and history ?]

[ Unbelievable .]

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Is religion REALLY the number one cause of war?

http://www.jonsorensen.net/2012/09/18/is-religion-really-the-number-one-cause-of-war/

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Does Religion Originate in the Brain?

http://www.equip.org/articles/does-religion-originate-in-the-brain-/

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“[Since] naturalism does not provide us with any reason to trust our reason, why should we accept any naturalist reasoning? And if Christian theism was responsible for the rise of science, why does naturalism so often get the credit for being the more scientific worldview?“

http://www.godevidence.com/2012/07/atheism-vs-theism/

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Consciousness:

“Are we merely a brain or are we both brain and mind?“

http://www.probe.org/site/c.fdKEIMNsEoG/b.4218239/k.62F8/Mind_Soul_and_Neuroethics.htm

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“Consciousness is among the most mystifying features of the cosmos. [Evolutionist] Geoffrey Madell opines that ‘the emergence of consciousness, then is a mystery, and one to which materialism signally fails to provide an answer.’ [Evolutionist] Colin McGinn claims that its arrival borders on sheer magic because there seems to be no naturalistic explanation for it: ‘How can mere matter originate consciousness? How did evolution convert the water of biological tissue into the wine of consciousness? Consciousness seems like a radical novelty in the universe, not prefigured by the after-effects of the Big Bang; so how did it contrive to spring into being from what preceded it?’ Finally, naturalist William Lyons argues that [physicalism] seem[s] to be in tune with the scientific materialism of the twentieth century because it [is] a harmonic of the general theme that all there is in the universe is matter and energy and motion and that humans are a product of the evolution of species just as much as buffaloes and beavers are. Evolution is a seamless garment with no holes wherein souls might be inserted from above.’“

http://www.scriptoriumdaily.com/2008/04/28/the-argument-from-consciousness/

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“What you have going on inside of your head is just chemical reactions that are governed by very physicalistic processes. That which we mistakenly understood to be the mind or the soul is simply the brain, and if it is anything more than the brain, consciousness is a mere property of the brain that kind of rides on top of the physical substance of the brain, much like wetness rides on top of water. It supervenes upon the brain. It is temporarily produced by the brain and dependent upon the brain, but there is nothing akin to what we would call a soul. Indeed, there is nobody in there.“

http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5474

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“… there is more to consciousness than physical processes in the brain…”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NK1Yo6VbRoo

– David Chalmers, Ph.D. (Philosophy), Philosopher of Mind

and…

Is meaning located in the brain?

http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/is-meaning-located-in-the-brain/

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‘Atheism is Patriotic’

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/atheists-to-fly-july-4-airplane-banners-in-27-states-god-less-america-atheism-is-patriotic/

[Thank goodness for a refreshing voice of reason and studied knowledge . ]

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Religious Superstitions:

“Superstition is a serious matter in the land of Dracula.“

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110208/D9L8LR4G1.html

[Don't they also have werewolves in the Land of Dracula ? Look, people, we live in a scientifically enlightened age now. Can't we all just get along without the absurdity of religion and other superstitions ? ]

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“… too much of a sense that ‘everything will be just fine’ can be dangerous because it can lead one to be careless about things that are important to health and long life.”

http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2011/04/11/life/srv0000011331137.txt?viewmode=fullstory

[As long as we don't fall into the trap of assuming (like religionists do), that the same thing is true of eternal life , we can all learn something from this and move on.]

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“The atheist is indicating that… he is not open to any kind of evidence, he’s only only open to this particular kind of evidence and this particular experience.“

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELuU_-WL-mI&feature=youtu.be

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“I swear, when I hear an educated biologist make statements so palpably unaware of what he’s talking about, it makes me see how deeply atheism can corrupt rationality.“

http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2012/08/how-deeply-atheism-can-corrupt-rationality/

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Prayer:

“We have seen a 600 percent increase in drug arrests… and prayers have been the [reason why].“

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/08/sheriff-cites-600-percent-boost-in-drug-arrests-since-local-churches-started-praying.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+delicious%2Fgqlf+%28Christian+Headlines+Top+Headlines%29

[ How , exactly , does he know that?]

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Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

“This is the subtitle to a new book, Mind and Cosmos, by Thomas Nagel with Oxford University Press. Nagel is a materialist, not a theist or creationist. “

http://sententias.org/2012/06/22/nagel-mind-and-cosmos/

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Atheists Claim They Make Better Lovers

http://www.christianpost.com/news/atheists-claim-they-make-better-lovers-69612/print.html

[Maybe, but ASND would like to ask, "Why didn't those atheists cite any scientific research behind that assertion?"]

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Is Humanism a Religion?

http://thenewamerican.com/opinion/sam-blumenfeld/3001-is-humanism-a-religion

[For those who don't know, " humanism " today is essentially a euphemism for "atheism."]

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Village Atheists with Vengeance

http://www.equip.org/articles/village-atheists-with-vengeance/

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Who Really Commits the “God of the Gaps” Fallacy?

http://www.crossexamined.org/articles-detail.asp?ID=87&Title=Who%20Really%20Commits%20the

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Sam Harris:

“[Sam] Harris once described [William Lane] Craig as ‘the one Christian apologist who has put the fear of God into many of my fellow atheists.‘”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/19/christian-pastor-atheists-debates/?test=latestnews

[Sam would know , too .]

[I bet Sam doesn't know this , though.]

[Or this . Or this . Or this ... ]

[ Hmm... ]

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“What is the best foundation for the existence of objective moral values and duties? What grounds them? What makes certain actions good or evil, right or wrong? If God does not exist, what foundation remains for objective moral values and duties? Can science answer questions of morality? New Atheist Sam Harris thinks so.“

http://enrichmentjournal.ag.org/201204/201204_116_moral_landscape.cfm

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Bait and Switch: Sam Harris on free will

http://www.booksandculture.com/articles/2013/janfeb/bait-and-switch.html?paging=off&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share

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Richard Dawkins:

Richard Dawkins: I can’t be sure God does not exist

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html

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The God Delusion: 160 Errors, Gross Exaggerations, and Highly Dubious Claims

http://christthetao.homestead.com/articles/thegoddelusion.pdf

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Atheist Richard Dawkins Supports Bibles in Schools

http://www.christianpost.com/news/atheist-richard-dawkins-supports-bibles-in-schools-75290/print.html

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“Dawkins wants an exception for Darwinism from the rule of evidence. And that is not new. He had said that decades ago…“

http://www.uncommondescent.com/darwinism/more-reasons-why-dawkins-should-just-retire-no-one-it-turns-out-defends-darwin-on-the-evidence/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+uncommondescent%2FJCWn+%28Uncommon+Descent%29

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Dawkins’s Best Argument

The Case against God in The God Delusion

http://www.ouruf.org/d/grad/10.1%20ganssle%20-%20Dawkins%20Best%20Argument.pdf

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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.

A Chapter-by-Chapter Response to Richard Dawkins’ Book The Greatest Show on Earth

http://www.reasons.org/articles/welcome-back-my-friends-to-the-show-that-never-ends-part-1

http://www.reasons.org/articles/welcome-back-my-friends-to-the-show-that-never-ends-part-2

http://www.reasons.org/articles/welcome-back-my-friends-to-the-show-that-never-ends-part-3

http://www.reasons.org/articles/welcome-back-my-friends-to-the-show-that-never-ends-part-4

http://www.reasons.org/articles/welcome-back-my-friends-to-the-show-that-never-ends-1-28-10

http://www.reasons.org/articles/welcome-back-my-friends-to-the-show-that-never-ends-2-11-10

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Richard Dawkins defends the idea of having a mistress and lying about it

http://www.uncommondescent.com/culture/richard-dawkins-defends-the-idea-of-having-a-mistress-and-lying-about-it/

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“If the ‘purpose’ of DNA is to supervise the building of bodies, it is surprising to find a large quantity of DNA which does no such thing. Biologists are racking their brains trying to think what useful task this apparently surplus DNA is doing. But from the point of view of the selfish genes themselves, there is no paradox. The true ‘purpose’ of DNA is to survive, no more and no less. The simplest way to explain the surplus DNA is to suppose that it is a parasite, or at best a harmless but useless passenger, hitching a ride in the survival machines created by the other DNA.”

http://tinyurl.com/935h59l

–Richard Dawkins, 1976

“I have noticed that there are some creationists who are jumping on [the ENCODE results] because they think that’s awkward for Darwinism. Quite the contrary it’s exactly what a Darwinist would hope for, to find usefulness in the living world… Whereas we thought that only a minority of the genome was doing something, namely that minority which actually codes for protein, and now we find that actually the majority of it is doing something.“

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2012/09/in_debate_brita_1064521.htm

–Richard Dawkins, 2012

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Christopher Hitchens:

Reflections on the Death of Christopher Hitchens

http://www.christianpost.com/news/reflections-on-the-death-of-christopher-hitchens-65107/print.html

and…

Christopher Hitchens: God’s favorite atheist?

How did the face of a militant movement endear himself to religious leaders?

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=378513

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Christopher Hitchens and the mystery of faith

http://online.worldmag.com/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-and-the-mystery-of-faith/

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Christian leaders react to Hitchens’ death

http://www.bpnews.net/printerfriendly.asp?ID=36810

and…

Learning From Christopher Hitchens: Lessons Evangelicals Must Not Miss

http://www.christianpost.com/news/learning-from-christopher-hitchens-lessons-evangelicals-must-not-miss-67185/print.html

[If you never had the pleasure of reading or hearing Chris Hitchens, you can do both here .]

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“An atheists’ group, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has set up an alternative Nativity scene in the Capitol Rotunda.“

http://www.channel3000.com/politics/29999554/detail.html

[The "reason for the season," they say, is the winter solstice. You know, come to think of it, the gravitational alignment of the earth's axis relative to its orbital plane around our star actually IS a cause for celebration .]

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Inner-city education fails without the church

http://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2011/06/08/inner-city-education-fails-without-church

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Downgrade nation

Are U.S. economic doldrums tied to a spiritual downturn?

http://www.worldmag.com/printer.cfm?id=18501

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“[Atheists] know there must be thousands of clergy out there who have secretly abandoned their faith but have nowhere to turn.“

http://www.christianpost.com/news/atheists-form-support-group-for-nonbelieving-pastors-58252/print.html

[So, btw, did the apostle John .]

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Friedrich Nietzsche and His Proto-Nazi Eco-Fascism

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/friedrich_nietzsche_his_proto-nazi_eco-fascism.html

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Church-Burning Video Used to Promote Atheist Event at Ft. Bragg

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/fort-bragg-to-host-anti-religion-event.html

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National Atheist Ad Campaign Targets Black Community

http://www.christianpost.com/news/national-atheist-ad-campaign-targets-black-community-68442/print.html

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“William Murray’s story of growing up as the pawn of the infamous Madalyn Murray O’Hair long has been out of print. Until now.“

http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/stunning-testimony-from-man-who-fought-prayer/print/

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Texas movie theaters refuse to show atheist ad

http://blog.chron.com/believeitornot/2012/04/texas-movie-theaters-refuse-to-show-atheist-ad/

[ASND wonders, as always, why? Those same theaters have run numerous overtly atheistic and anti-Christian movies over the years. Why are brief ads preaching the same sermons such a problem?]

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Profile of a Hatetheist

http://blogs.christianpost.com/confident-christian/profile-of-a-hatetheist-10298/print.html

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“I would speculate that 99.9% of all skeptics and atheists would nod in agreement with Nietzsche’s assertions [that] ‘Truth and faith: here we have two wholly distinct worlds of ideas, almost two diametrically opposite worlds—the road to the one and the road to the other lie miles apart‘ [and] “Faith” means the will to avoid knowing what is true.’“

http://blogs.christianpost.com/confident-christian/challenging-atheisms-definition-of-faith-10372/print.html

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“What she didn’t realize was that the justification she offered for her belief in determinism undermined her deterministic beliefs. She believed that she had evaluated the evidence and embraced the position — determinism — that is most logical. And yet if determinism were true she would have been incapable of evaluating evidence and freely following the logic because all her choices were already set. Logically speaking, her position was self-refuting. In other words, she sawed off the branch she was sitting on.“

http://www.conversantlife.com/other-faiths/a-review-of-free-will-by-sam-harris

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“Those who grow up in an atheist household are least likely to maintain their beliefs about religion as adults…“

http://www.christianpost.com/news/study-atheists-have-lowest-retention-rate-compared-to-religious-groups-78029/print.html

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“From an atheistic standpoint, a blind, pitiless, amoral process programmed Jeff to love his offspring. The same evolutionary process programs other animals to eat their offspring. Jeff keeps forgetting what it means to be an atheist. That’s because he has to live in God’s world.“

http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/08/unreasonable-faithlessness-failing-as.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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“When it comes to the debate for God’s existence, there are several lines of evidence.”

The Kalam [Cosmological] Argument

The Design Argument

The Moral Argument

The Ontological Argument

The Argument from Truth

The Argument from Aesthetic Experience

The Argument from Conscience

The Argument from Miracles

http://rob-lundberg.blogspot.com/2012/07/challenges-from-atheists-is-religion.html

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The Kalam Cosmological Argument:

The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe

http://www.leaderu.com/truth/3truth11.html

and…

“A Philosophical Attack On the Kalam [Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God]“

http://jwwartick.com/2011/09/06/kca-defense/

and…

11 Objections [and responses] to the Kalam [Cosmological Argument for God]

http://www.randyeverist.com/2012/11/11-objections-to-kalam.html

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“No one is born believing that everything, everywhere in the entire universe through all eternity follows uniform natural laws. We are indoctrinated into a belief in naturalism by parents, role models, and educational institutions.“

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/108vmj/is_anaturalism_the_default_position_does_it/

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“… if evolutionary naturalism can cause a person to believe that which is false (such as religiously oriented beliefs) in order to promote survivability, then what confidence can evolutionists muster that their convictions are reliable, true beliefs? And if evolution cannot guarantee true beliefs in a person’s mind then how does one know that belief in evolutionary naturalism itself is a true belief about the world?“

http://www.reasons.org/files/images/ezine/2009/ezine-2009-01.pdf

[p. 5]

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The Justification of Theism

http://www.leaderu.com/truth/3truth09.html

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Ten Arguments for the Existence of God

http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2011/06/ten-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god/

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An atheist changes his mind about God (The Son)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOYObzRqTKs&feature=youtu.be

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