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IBM versus GOD
It’s hard not to feel a little sad for God (or gods, if you like). There was a time when almost all of the humans believed God was everywhere and responsible for almost everything: creation, weather,...
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Is there such a thing as the supernatural?
Professor Frink: Yes, over here, n’hey, n’hey. In Episode BF12, you were battling barbarians while riding a winged Appaloosa, yet in the very next scene, my dear, you’re clearly atop a winged Arabian!...
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Inigo Montoya and the “supernatural, emergent, and subjective”
The immortal words of film classic The Princess Bride’s Inigo Montoya have been meme-ified for use against internet and media pundits rhetorically abusing words beyond the licence of art and form: You...
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Short Answers to Ten Famous Paradoxes
Paradoxes are concepts or phenomena that seem self-contradictory, but may not be, or they may be thought experiments that appear to predict mutually exclusive outcomes. They are psychologically...
View ArticleWhy atheists (and everyone) should not leave psychology out of their...
This post is in reply to “Why atheists (and everyone) should leave psychoanalysis out of their disagreements ” by Vlad Chituc, posted on Chris Stedman’s Religion News Service blog. I would suggest...
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Settling that free will stuff at the Municipal Fortress of Vengeance
I got in trouble for skipping class once in the eighth grade. It was more exciting than you might think. Near to the end of the class hour, the gym teacher whose period I skipped spotted me and a buddy...
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Russell Blackford: We have the extraordinary evidence! [video]
Do we? In this TAM2013 talk, Russell argues we have the “extraordinary evidence.” That is to say, we have the scientific evidence for the extraordinary claims. What claims? Claims like that the Earth...
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The Existentialist Music of Weird Al Yankovic [videos]
I have been a fan of Weird Al since I was a kid. It’s hard not to admire someone so profoundly successful by way of professionally mocking people. That’s what I’d do, if I had the accordion skills. As...
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Skeptics Society Conference to feature big names, big ideas
This is a guest post by Wendy Hughes, editor of Skeptic Ink’s Healthy Skepticsm channel and producer of The Odds Must Be Crazy. What Skeptics Society Conference In the Year 2525: Big Science, Big...
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Ask an Agnostic Day’s Top Questions Answered
Following National Ask An Atheist Day (yesterday) is today’s Regional Ask an Agnostic Day. As a devout and practicing agnostic, I’ve solicited questions in order to raise awareness and acceptance of...
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