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Thanks to some articulate and well-informed comments on yesterday’s post, I now understand that there’s a lot more to it than just needing to verify your conclusions before you accept them as true. Verificationism (or at least, the strict forms of verificationism that William Lane Craig was referring to) can go so far as to [...]
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Verificationism
May 14th, 2012 
Deacon Duncan A few people have commented (with good reason) that my last post was guilty of quote-mining William Lane Craig. And truth to tell, I don’t think I gave enough of the context of the original quote to give people a fair idea of what Craig was trying to say, nor did I do enough to [...]
Better late than never
May 10th, 2012 Deacon Duncan So President Obama has finally come out in favor of equal civil rights for gays. About damn time, and kudos to him for having the courage to do so ahead of the election instead of waiting until it was “safe” to take a stand. He should have done so years ago, but still, credit where [...]
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9 Comments »Perverted Science
May 8th, 2012 Deacon Duncan Writing for the Finance section of Townhall.com (wait, the Finance section?), Mark Baisley has great hopes for the future of science. Galileo was a true scientist. I like Wikipedia’s description, “He displayed a peculiar ability to ignore established authorities, most notably Aristotelianism. In broader terms, his work marked another step towards the eventual separation of [...]
Gay Marriage in the 10th century Church?
May 7th, 2012 Deacon Duncan I have to confess, I’m a bit skeptical of this story about St. Serge and St. Bacchus. But it is interesting. While the pairing of saints, particularly in the early church, was not unusual, the association of these two men was regarded as particularly close. Severus of Antioch in the sixth century explained that “we [...]
Gospel Disproof #46: On the proper use of beer and religion
May 2nd, 2012 Deacon Duncan In the book of Proverbs, chapter 31, we are instructed as to the proper use of beer and wine. Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish! Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. Part of the attraction of alcoholic beverages is [...]
Gospel Disproof #45: A self-fulfilling prophecy
April 30th, 2012 Deacon Duncan Back when I was an active member in the Church of Christ, I got myself in trouble with the pastor and the elders because I pointed out some discrepancies I’d found between what the church teaches and what it was actually practicing. For example, one of their big teachings is that the church has to [...]
Analytical thinking and religious belief
April 28th, 2012 Deacon Duncan I bet we hear more about this one: a study at the University of British Columbia has found that analytical thinking actually decreases religious belief. The study, which will appear in tomorrow’s issue of Science, finds that thinking analytically increases disbelief among believers and skeptics alike, shedding important new light on the psychology of religious [...]
An odd response
April 23rd, 2012 Deacon Duncan My latest post at Evangelical Realism seems to have attracted the attention of a self-described “New Evangelist” named David Roemer. It’s an odd response, though. My post was about William Lane Craig’s problems with the doctrine of Hell and Christian exclusivism, and, well, see if you can tell what (if anything) Roemer’s response has to [...]
The rest of the [back]story
April 21st, 2012 Deacon Duncan Like I said yesterday, I decided in my mid-teens that I was going to follow God no matter what men said about Him, and that more than anything else led to my eventual rejection of Christianity. When you try to go beyond what men say about God, to the reality behind the words, you discover [...]
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