Cross Posted At Friend of Reason
It’s time for the second installment of my “Chronicle of Belief” where I attempt to put into words my own world-view and the opinions and positions that help define me. This entry is about my identification with the label Secular Humanist, a particular world-view with which I sympathize and identify strongly. […]
Archive for the ‘Logic’ Category
One issue over which my opinion has been rather fluid as of late is that of labels. Often times I avoid the use of labels, arguing that they provide others with opportunity to make unfounded assumptions and put into practice pre-conceived notions. As we come to learn new labels we inevitably begin a process of […]
There are many great webcomics that I regularly read, including Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Hark! A Vagrant and Dinosaur Comics, but one of my absolute favourites is Dresden Codak — a comic about transhumanism and… well, awesome stuff like that.
Updates by the author, Aaron Diaz, are extremely irregular, due to the vast amounts of time required for each […]
I recently mentioned, on my blog, Dr. Granville Sewell, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas, El Paso, in relation to a new book of his, filled with essays about intelligent design and evolution, that was recently published by the Discovery Institute. Sewell is an intelligent design proponent/advocate, and due to his status as […]
Intelligent design proponents, like those found at the Discovery Institute, love to claim that their intellectual weapon of choice, ID, has a basis in science and the scientific method. A prominent claim within this is that ID is falsifiable, just as all good (wait, no, just all) hypotheses must be in order to be scientific. […]
A link to some fascinating Jewish religious MP3s
I was always under the impression that most Australians use rational thinking in at least most parts of their lives, barring religion, which is the very antithesis of rationalism. But this survey clearly proves me wrong. The results of a recent Nielson poll on supernatural beliefs have just been released and I was more than […]
A technique used in religious debates that’s particularly annoying is the claim by a follower of religion X that “X is not a religion”. Some examples:
Christianity: Christianity is not really a religion; it is a relationship with God. Source.This is the classic one, so you might be surprised to learn most religions don’t seem to be […]
Well congratulations to the Cats who won the AFL Grand final today. Yesterday in the Herald Sun newspaper, a few psychics posted that St Kilda was going to win.
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Jason Lisle really, let me down this week. I was hoping for an A grade lesson in logical fallacies, and instead he gives me this. It’s titled “The Fallacy of the Question-Begging Epithet” and is a marvellous exercise in whining about exactly the same crap he was whining about last week in “The Fallacy of […]
