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Archive for August, 2009
Is Old Earth Geology A Godless Plot To Hate God Perpetuated By Godless God Haters?
August 21st, 2009 
Daniel Fincke PZ Myers has a fascinating post on the history of geology which traces the first discoveries of evidence for an old earth by regular old tyme religious people during centuries wherein challenging belief in God was very few people’s top priority. The advent of Darwinism did not set in motion a conspiracy of atheists who [...]
Posted in Biology, Creationism, Epistemology, Evidence, Evolution, Geology, Philosophy of Science, PZ Myers, Religion and Science, Science 
Tags: Alexandre Brongniart, Answers In Genesis, Baron Cuvier, Evidentialism, Fossils, History of Science, Paradigms, Paris, Presuppositionalism, Robert Hooke, Theories, World View Canard 
No Comments »Equating All Gays To Rapists And Animals
August 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke I’m not exaggerating in saying that I have never before seen with my own two eyes a contemporary preacher who lived down to the worst caricatures of hatred and poison-spreading religiosity as what I saw in this disgusting video. Even in my Evangelical “homosexuality is a sin” days, this would have turned my stomach something [...]
Moments
August 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke A simply beautiful 4 minute film by Will Hoffman, which comes to us via Radiolab. Having heard a Radiolab series on moments of death, he gives us moments of life. Within seconds I realized it had to be watched in full screen rather than just in the relatively tiny space of a youtube box, so [...]
Posted in Arts, Film, Videos Tags: Appreciation Of Life, Inspirational, Meaning of Life, Moments, Short Films, Smelling The Roses, The Little Things, Will Hoffman 1 Comment »‘Nuff Said Award Winner: “Time To Think” On Helping Instead Of Praying
August 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Shortly after posting my thoughts on what to say as an atheist to those who are in situations where it is traditional to offer the promise to pray, I came across this article via Hemant Mehta. In the article, Stephen Bates talks about how much his experience covering religion for 7 years as a journalist [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Cultural Secularism, Prayer, Religion, Secularism Tags: Stephen Bates No Comments »Not “I’ll Pray For You” But “I Love You”
August 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke Joe Bob Briggs from The Wittenburg Door visited a convention of atheists last year. The Wittenburg Door is primarily a satire magazine written by Evangelicals with a sense of humor and perspective which I remember fondly from my teen years. So, writing for a “with it” sort of Evangelical publication, Briggs’s barbs at the atheists [...]
Character As Fate And Environment As Variability
August 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke In reply to this post from late last night in which I took a first pass at trying to sketch out my views on fate, George writes: Dan, Again I find myself thanking you for this blog. Good blogging is all for naught without good readers (and especially without good readers who contribute excellently and [...]
Posted in Atheism, Featured, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Social Psychology, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Determinism, Fate, Free Will, Nature vs. Nurture, Oeidpus Rex, Philosophy of Personal Identity, Psychological Determinism, Psychology of Action, Robert Solomon, Self 9 Comments »Christianity And Lithuania
August 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke ABC News reported on the discovery of another CIA secret prison that was being used for some period of time between 2001-2005. This one in Lithuania. Red explores its long bloody history and one of its recurring themes: Vilnius has a long and bloody history. There are mass graves there containing the remains of tens [...]
Posted in Christianity, George W. Bush, History, Hypocrisy, Law, Politics, Religious Extremism, Roman Catholic Church Tags: CIA Black Sites, Gediminas, Lithuania, Mikhail Muravyov, Napolean, Nazis, Perkunas No Comments »On The Meaning Of Meaning
August 21st, 2009 Daniel Fincke In reply to some remarks I made about the recognition of genuine meaning without reference to religion, George replied with this challenge: Dan, Now you have got me thinking…. I’m not entirely clear about your point of meaning in everyday events. My logic tells me that a completely statistically probable event happens and I impart [...]
Posted in Atheism, Creationism, Ethics, Faith, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Nietzsche, Philosophy, Psychology, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Authenticity, Character, Character As Fate, Choices, Decision Psychology, Existentialism, Fate, Jean-Paul Sartre, Personal Necessity, Psychological Determinism, Psychology of Will, Self-Realization 1 Comment »Thank You Planet Atheism!
August 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke We’ve been simply delighted to be added to the Planet Atheism feed this week. As the awesome song below (from the utterly infectious and charming Lykke Li) was playing on my computer just now, I figured it the ideal way to express just how happy we are about getting to introduce ourselves to Planet Atheism’s [...]
Get Your Own Occam’s Razor!
August 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke It slices! It dices! Click here to see it at work!
Interview With Journalist Threatened With 40 Lashes
August 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Her crime: wearing trousers. via Atheist Media Blog
Posted in Islam, Religious Extremism, Theocracy Tags: France, Khartoum, Lubna Ahmed Al-Hussain, Sudan No Comments »The Complicated Relationship Of An Apostate To His Religious Friends And His Reilgious Past
August 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke In reply to this post from the other day and subsequent discussion in the comments section about the ways that religious belie can interfere with both reason and love, George writes, For the past year I have been trolling blogs and websites trying to wrap my brain around religion in general and evolution denial in [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheistic Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Intellectual Vices, Intellectual Virtues, Love, Music, Music Videos, Religion, Secularism, Videos, Virtues, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Apostasy, Boatman's call, Friendship, Into My Arms, Meaning, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nihilism 3 Comments »A Contemporary Case For Humanism
August 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke It’s astonishing how much we take for granted what human reason has achieved since scientists have committed themselves rigorously to the scientific method. The evidence of our rational potential with science vs. what it was without science but with faith is really indisputable: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Religion and Science, Secularism, Videos Tags: Creationism, Humanism 6 Comments »The Day’s Cycle In 5 Distinct Locations
August 20th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A really neat photographic presentation of all the phases of a day in each of 5 different locations.
Rational Beliefs, Rational Actions, And When It Is Rational To Act On What You Don’t Think Is True
August 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke We hold beliefs with various degrees of justification and the demands of rationality dictate to us that we proportion our degree of belief to the degree of our justification. If I am looking at evidence for two sides of a position and I find that 60% of the evidence seems to favor side A, whereas [...]
Posted in Disambiguating Faith, Epistemic Justification, Epistemology, Ethics, Evidence, Faith, Featured, Philosophy Tags: Emotions, Emotions In Reasoning, Ethical Justification, Fear, Hope, Rational Actions, Rational Beliefs, Rational Emotions, Rationally Calibrating Beliefs To Evidence, Weighing Evidence 13 Comments »Daily Hilarity: Mr. Deity’s Creative Gift For His Chosen People
August 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Brand new Mr. Deity! Your Thoughts?
Posted in Atheism, Comedy, Hilarious, History, Mr. Deity, Parody, Religious Satire, Satire, Videos No Comments »What Does Dexter Reveal About America?
August 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Michael C. Hall discussed the European response to Dexter and how it differs from the American one. …people are fascinated. And I think in some markets overseas, they’re interested in the show in that it’s an American show, interested in what it might say or might not say about American culture, so that’s an added [...]
Posted in Applied Ethics, Ethics, Moral Psychology, Nietzsche Tags: America, C. Michael Hall, Death Penalty, Dexter, Europe, Vigilanteism, Violent Moralism 3 Comments »Weirdo Claiming To Be Bob Dylan Picked Up By Cop And Turned Out To Be Bob Dylan
August 19th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Hilarious: Let’s say you run into an old man in a hood and sweatpants wandering around your neighborhood all alone in the pouring rain. 24-year-old Buble picked up Dylan in a Long Branch front yard, after the home’s occupants called in a report of a suspicious person. Buble told ABC, “I asked him what his [...]
Chris Jordan’s Cans Seurat
August 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Chris Jordan’s “Can’s Seurat” (2007) is 60×92″ and it “depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.” And closer up: And even closer up: Click here for more examples of Chris Jordan’s amazing photographic artwork chronicling American consumerism. His book Running the Numbers: An American Self-portrait is out in hardcover. [...]
Love, Religious Style
August 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Daniel M of Good Reason relays this poignant anecdote: I was on a long car trip with my very Mormon mother. Out of the blue, she said, “So you think it’s okay for gay people to get married, do you?” “Yeah,” I said. “I think it’ll be fine.” Mom said “What if your sons turned [...]
Posted in Homosexuality, LGBTQAA, Love, Religion, Why I Am Not A Christian Tags: Mormons 9 Comments »Anatomy Of A Black Hole
August 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke A neat presentation of the nature and workings of black holes. Your Thoughts?
A Link For The Edification Of My Religious Readers
August 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Here you go, guys and gals, a great site about your views. Your Thoughts?
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About God But Were Afraid To Ask
August 18th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Here’s a terrific page with answers to all the important questions about God. Your Thoughts?
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