Would evidence for God mean the end of atheism and Christianity? Yes, says Matt J. Rossano, a professor and department head of psychology at Southeastern Louisiana University
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Eli quotes Andrew Sullivan on the way Christopher Hitchens is handling his ongoing struggle with cancer: Christianity’s radical claim is that it is in suffering alone that we approach the truth about our ultimate condition, just as Jesus’ intense suffering on the Cross makes sense only as an act of God’s solidarity with us in this mortal, existential panic. The position you take on this cannot be reduced to an argument. It is much deeper than that
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Touching Stoves
Sick theists who pray for healing are no more likely to recover than sick atheists . If people who were prayed for recovered more quickly or more fully than people receiving no prayer, we could easily show this with a test. …
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Daylight Atheism > What Does It Mean for Prayer to be Untestable?
In his characteristically provocative fashion, Dennett, author of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, calls for a scientific, rational examination of religion that will lead us to understand what purpose religion serves in our culture. Much like EO Wilson (In Search of Nature), Robert Wright (The Moral Animal), and Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene), Dennett explores religion as a cultural phenomenon governed by the processes of evolution and natural selection.
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Daniel Dennett (1-6) Breaking the Spell – Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
I assume large numbers of people spent an hour or two at church this morning, but I did something vastly better: I got out of bed, drove roughly 20 miles east to Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge, and ran the mile-long trail of switchbacks to the top. Then I ran back down and did the same again.
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Better Church
Arizona Atheist (continued) Interestingly, the Arizona Atheist writes, instead of causing society to spin out of control into moral decay, there is evidence that natural selection crafted our innate sense of altruism – hardly that …
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Atheism and Creation Ministries International, part 11 | True …
It’s funny how, written from a theist perspective, he paints such a picture of atheists . Collins recounts how, as a student at the University of Virginia, conversations would easily turn to religion, where Collins’ sense of the …
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Daylight Atheism > The Language of God: From Atheism to Belief
I could be wrong, but I believe Tocqueville was the first to observe how Americans have a bottomless appetite for zoning, siting, and related administrative arcana. We see it still today : Nearly 70 percent of people feel an Islamic center near ground zero is disrespectful, even deliberately provocative, according to a CNN/Opinion Research poll. Fantastic! We just can’t get enough — it’s in our blood, or our distinctive national character, something.
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The Compass of Hatred
I came to this conclusion after watching Edwin Kagin, national legal director of American Atheists Inc recently on ABC’s Nightline. Apparently he is offering “de-baptisms” at the annual American Atheists Convention in Newark, …
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Brendan Patrick Keane defines atheism as “no god.” In order for you to be correct about atheism , you would have to define it as “maybe god.” Atheism is declarative in its a priori, that there is “a-thei,” or “no-god.
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Brendan Patrick Keane Misleads About Atheism & Christopher Hitchens