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Disproving the 3-O God.

That’s “O” as in the letter. I was recently on the phone with a friend of mine who happens to be rather religious, and as we sometimes do, we got into another debate over religion. I had asked her if she believed in the 3-O God, that is, Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnibenevolent, ’cause if she [ READ MORE ]

Addendum to “What finding life beyond Earth means for western religion.”

Here’s Seth Shostak on the Colbert Report[ READ MORE ]

What finding life beyond Earth means for western religion.

Western religion has constantly tried to put humans at the center of the universe, both figuratively and literally. And it has constantly failed. Up until Copernicus, the Earth was the center of the universe. But Copernicus removed Earth from the center of the solar system, but still declared the sun to be the center of [ READ MORE ]

Marijuana and Western Religion

When one takes a moment to see the forest for the trees, it becomes apparent that there’s a rather interesting relationship between marijuana and western religions. Indeed many of our drug laws are influenced by religion. In his book The End of Faith, Same Harris elaborates on this issue giving a harrowing account. “The influence [ READ MORE ]

Gods who disagree with the data.

Here is an excerpt from Victor Stenger’s God: The Failed Hypothesis. 1. A God who is responsible for the complex structure of the world, especially living things, fails to agree with empirical fact that this structure can be understood to arise from simple natural processes and shows none of the expected signs of design. Indeed, [ READ MORE ]

Arguments from philosophy.

I’m currently reading a book from Victor J. Stenger entitled “God: The Failed Hypothesis”. In the book he presents arguments from philosophers Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier claiming to show the impossibility of gods with various attributes. Following is a sampling of their arguments. An All-Virtuous Being Cannot Exist 1. God is (by definition) a [ READ MORE ]

Self-Contradictions of the Bible

This excerpt from The End of Faith by Sam Harris gives a list of self-contradictions all found within the contexts of the bible, showing how inconsistent this overly popular text really is. “God is seen and heard/God is invisible and cannot be heard; God is everywhere and present, sees and knows all things/God is not [ READ MORE ]

Why God almost certainly does not exist.

  • December 29th, 2008
  • Posted in Excerpts

Here is an excerpt from The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. This is a relatively simple line of reasoning from which follows God does not exist. 1. One of the greatest challenges to the human intellect, over the centuries, has been to explain how the complex, improbable appearance of design in the universe arises. 2. [ READ MORE ]

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