8 hours ago by Randy Everist

The charge of question-begging comes up in relation to Christian arguments for God’s existence and the truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Most of the time, this charge is unfounded. This post will attempt to explain what question-begging is in relation to arguments. A typical example concerns the ...

Possible Worlds - randyeverist.com · Rank: 60,553 · 19 references

14 hours ago by danielgriswold

Thanks Missouri Institute of Natural Science for being Awesome and making this visualization. The text for the left brain reads: “I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control ...

Daniel Griswold Thought This - danielgriswold.wordpress.com · Rank: 170,503 · 3 references

17 hours ago by victor

there's been this photo floating around the intertubes (i found it from some facebook site): and i'd like to go on record as saying "BULLSHIT!" this whole thing is based on a faulty logic assumption indicating that (in their eyes) skinny precludes hot. princess was a size 2. i could slide almost all ...

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18 hours ago by Pro Libertate

Via Brain Pickings (from Bridge8).

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18 hours ago by sabepashubbo

I recently discussed the problem of evil, which is a popular topic of debate between theists and atheists. For those unfamiliar, the general notion is that if God exists, why is there evil or suffering the world? Surely God could have created a world without evil, because He is all-powerful and all- ...

Unworthy Yet Redeemed - sabepashubbo.wordpress.com · 1 reference

1 day ago by Hans Hirschi

It's been a long while since I wrote about things that make no sense whatsoever. I just noticed that my post about English sinks is still regularly read, which is of course nice. So in the noble tradition of bashing, I thought it was time to balance things a bit and go after the French with some fri ...

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1 day ago by Retha

According to complementarian restrictionists, women could only teach women and children at church, not men. That, in practice, mean that men have, at first, a wider choice of ministries available to them: Anything which is not gender-specific and reaches a cross-section of people, is only meant for ...

Biblical Personhood - biblicalpersonhood.wordpress.com · Rank: 178,191 · 4 references

1 day ago

Sam Harris is great.

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1 day ago by z]

Two days ago as I was derping around the web (not surprising at all), I discovered this awesome open course called "Critical reasoning for beginners". What's all about? The title does not say much to me, as I simply cannot catch what's so critical about reasoning. However, the content is circling ar ...

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1 day ago by Mentlegen

I really do. Not all of the people in this world, but most of them. It seems like common sense is the least common thing nowadays. People are fucking stupid. This is going to be a series where I complain about stupid people starting with part one: girls and their stupid ass logic! There's this quote ...

Intellectual Badass - mentlegensclub.blogspot.com · 3 references