Monthly Archives: October 2009

More evidence for miscommunication

Thank you, Larry Fafarman, for answering this, written by Nick Matzke at Panda’s Thumb: Just last week over at the Thinking Christian blog there was a huge stink raised over the alleged inappropriateness of linking ID to creationism. After much argument the anti-linkage people more or less conceded that there were some good reasons to …

October 30, 2009 – 10:52 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (55)

Our Own Worst Enemies

I was looking for background related to this article when I came across this from Patricia Churchland. (Churchland is a strictly naturalistic philosopher of mind at the University of California, San Diego.) the axiom that values come from reason or religion is wrong… There are better ways of ensuring moral motivation than scaring the crap …

October 26, 2009 – 7:02 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (18)

This Week’s Christian Carnival…

… is brought to you by “Minority Thinker… a Christian blogger with some uncommon thoughts.”

October 21, 2009 – 7:18 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments Off

Live Comment Preview

I have re-enabled the Live Comment Preview function. It was turned off for a while because it was contributing to a problem in which long pages with many comments would not load properly. If you experience a problem with pages loading now, please let me know.

October 21, 2009 – 9:36 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments Off

What’s Going On In Atheism?

Bill Maher has just been granted the Richard Dawkins award: The Richard Dawkins Award will be given every year to honor an outstanding atheist whose contributions raise public awareness of the nontheist life stance; who through writings, media, the arts, film, and/or the stage advocates increased scientific knowledge; who through work or by example teaches …

October 20, 2009 – 3:43 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Comments (23)

Concluding Unscientific Postscript

This entry is part 8 of 8 in the series Is ID Creationism?

Commenter John on one of the recent Intelligent Design threads said that science never interprets results after bringing them in. I think there’s truth in that as a general principle, though its extreme nature makes it subject to frequent exceptions, and not the absolute truth he seemed to want it to be. Anyway, I’m about …

October 19, 2009 – 5:20 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (32)

Christians face trial for criticising Islam

From the home of the Magna Carta:  Christians face trial for criticising Islam (via Confident Christianity)

October 18, 2009 – 7:18 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged | Comments (5)