Can abiogenesis be falsified?
Liberal Christian scholar, jayman777 asks:I’m not saying a mostly lifeless universe is, by itself, a strong argument against naturalism. It would be one argument among many. But, if you are going to...
View ArticleDr. Richard Carrier vs. Dr. Douglas Jacoby on the Divinity of Jesus
Intro:This is one of Carrier's better debates. I think he did an excellent job. It was a long one though, clocking in at 3 hours, and there were over 23 questions asked from the audience by my count,...
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J. P. Holding defends an ignorant deity.
Intro:Richard Carrier recently debated Christian apologist Douglas Jacoby over the divinity of Jesus and Carrier brought up Jesus' apparent ignorance of the benefits of washing one's hands. Carrier...
View ArticleJ. P. Holding Defends an Incoherent Incarnation.
Intro:This post covers part of Christian internet apologist J. P. Holding's response to atheist Richard Carrier's chapter 9 in the book "Not the Impossible Faith" which is a refutation of Holding's...
View ArticleRob Carter's Incredulity on Evolutionary DNA
Apparently I did not read carefully enough, because I thought we were going to see a video on creationism at a local church. However, as it turned out, the flesh n blood Rob Carter was there to give...
View ArticleDrake Shelton vs. Ed Babinski's "Cosmology of the Bible"
Intro:I'm pretty sure I was comprehensive in my responses to virtually everything online that could be construed against the case in Ed's chapter in The Christian Delusion. I guess it is too much to...
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Theodicies, the Philosophical Fool's Errand
Willy Wonka meets Jesus.Intro:Happy Good Friday! Over on Christian apologist Glenn Peoples' blog, he responds to the challenge that making excuses for a good god that allows for a lot of evil is no...
View ArticleChristian apologist Glenn Peoples & the Insufficiency of Evidence for the...
Intro:Christian apologist Glenn Peoples has finally gotten around to part 2 of his series reviewing atheist historian Richard Carrier's online version of his case arguing that the apostle Paul and the...
View ArticleChristian Apologist Drake Shelton's Hellacious Views on Hell
Intro:I'm not sure I expected that anyone could top Christian apologist Steve Hays on his incredibly bigoted defense of hell, but Christian apologist Drake Shelton's hero W. G. T. Shedd (and Shelton by...
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Jesus' Accidental Moral Teachings
Intro:I'm preparing a talk for an upcoming Skepticamp on being morally skeptical of the Biblical character Jesus as a good moral teacher and I'm trying to sort out a few issues before doing so. This...
View ArticleDid Jesus believe marriage is abolished in heaven?
Intro:For my presentation at an upcoming Skepticamp I'm talking about moral skepticism specifically on the common claim that the character Jesus in the Christian gospels is a "good moral teacher." One...
View Article"Jesus Was a Dick"
This presentation was originally given at the St. Louis Ethical Society at the St. Louis Skeptical Society event, "Skepticamp." I argue that the character Jesus in the Bible's New Testament was not a...
View ArticleThe Practical Epistemic Problems of Christianity
The following is a presentation I gave at a Recovering From Religion meetup group. Enjoy.Introduction:There are a few things I’d like to accomplish this evening by talking about the practical epistemic...
View ArticleThe Bankruptcy of the Free Will Defense
Intro:In the philosophical competition of worldviews many Christians use the "free will defense" as a way to excuse their god's apparent moral negligence in this world. Supposedly the value of free...
View ArticleDrones
Intro: I don’t feel comfortable at this time condemning drone strikes given the real possibility that it is actually the best of bad options. I don’t want to heap scorn on our elected leaders for...
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Review: SLU Grad Conference on Problem of Evil
Intro:I attended St. Louis University's grad conference on the "Problem of Evil" featuring prominent philosophers Alvin Plantinga and Paul Draper in addition to a number of graduate student...
View ArticleFeminism For People Who Don't Do Feminist Politics.
Intro:As far as I can tell, I agree with everything that Center For Inquiry President Ronald Lindsay said in his "scandalous" opening presentation at the Women in Secularism 2 conference (or at least...
View ArticleNaturalistic Immortality
The following is my presentation transcript for the upcoming St. Louis Skeptical Society's Skepticamp.***Good afternoon! Not science fiction: So the topic of this talk is “Naturalistic Immortality.”...
View ArticleWhy Evolution Makes Sense
I was drawn into Christianity primarily by the young earth creationist book, “The World that Perished” by John Whitcomb and remained a defender from age 16 to age 24 when I finally decided I wasn’t...
View ArticleThe Sex Advice of Moses
This is how I imagine the conversation between Moses and his scribe went on certain topics:Scribe: So uh, when you say, "Don't lie with a man like you lie with a woman" do you mean that men should have...
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