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Category: Secular

Posted on 2014-02-042016-05-11

How to Deal with Creationism in Schools

back | creationism | forth Not having watched the debate yet, some more thoughts on the strategy question. This may take on a quite European view on the subject, and it does so knowingly. I am not part of the Northern American discourse, some points... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2014-02-042015-03-13

Galileo redivivus against a modern democratic pragmatist?

Your posting, Sören, raises two fundamental questions for someone interested in the theories of knowledge at stake here. Is there a democratic way to decide what is right and wrong in the field of knowledge? And if there is not: Do democracies still... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2014-02-042015-04-17

The Bill Nye—Ken Ham Debate on Creationism (2) | by Sören Koopmann

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Posted on 2014-02-032017-03-15

The conspiracist and essentially postmodern construct to discuss

Whoever claims that he is giving the Bible a literal reading is either a modern historian who is interested in concepts quite different from his own, or intellectually insincere. The text of Genesis 1 is straight. God created the earth, he separated... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2014-02-022016-05-12

Early modern creationism was at least scientific

Modern creationists tend to insinuate that they do basically share the beliefs with medieval and early modern authors. That is easier said than done. The very word creationism would not have crossed a Newton’s or a Locke’s mind – though Newton... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2014-02-012015-03-13

Statistics. Discuss creationism with the propagandists…

US statistics 2012: 46% support creationism. Source Gallup http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx Discussing creationism with pupils and students is usually difficult. US teachers are, as far as I can see, all too... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2014-01-192015-03-13

Evolution a thing thing one can only discredit in a debate?

The fact that someone from richarddawkins.net should speak against such interviews has of course an ironic twist. The titular saint of that site Dawkins himself has, as far as I can see, never resisted the temptation to venture such a... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2014-01-172014-03-07

The Bill Nye—Ken Ham Debate on Creationism (1)

this thread | next Bill Nye talks about the debate here: As soon as the debate has been announced, the question concerning the sense of debates with creationists arose. I will park some of these here. Benjamin Radford discusses at news.discovery.com... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2013-08-232015-03-13

Atheist Biblical Literalism, sigh

Quote from the page: This website aspires to be a beautiful and interactive resource for skeptics and believers alike to explore some of the more negative aspects of holy books. It was heavily inspired by the Reason Project’s poster of biblical... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2013-07-042016-03-22

If I were a Moslem…

…Some more thoughts referring back to my last post and to the new Oxford Union Society’s video of Mehdi Hasan’s defense of Islam as a religion that does not allow the general defamation of all Moslems. What I would do if I were a... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2013-06-232016-03-22

What is wrong with Islam today?

Posted yesterday by Al Jazeera English on YouTube: Mehdi Hasan talking with Canadian author Irshad Manji in Head to Head at the Oxford Union. Irshad Manji published The Trouble with Islam Today and Allah, Liberty and Love on the need to reform... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2013-04-102015-08-12

Always look on the bright side of life | by Sietske Fransen

‘Would you investigate the new Atheist Church in London for us?’ Sure, always up for discovering new things in London (an endless enterprise, so suggestions are always welcome), I was more than happy to attend a church service – or... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2012-05-262016-02-26

On the Temples of Atheism

Ah, Paul, I am not quite sure about what to think of the present hype surrounding atheism (and humanism following closey in its wake). It’s turning into something that enjoys a peculiarly mixed support wherever we hope for an agency to defeat... Read More | Share it now!

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Posted on 2012-05-152016-03-11

The Uses and Abuses of Secular Saints

Today’s date in the Positivist calendar, devised by Auguste Comte in 1849, is Caesar 24, 224. The fifth month of this 13 month calendar is devoted to Military Civilization, if that’s not an oxymoron, and is therefore stuffed with 28... Read More | Share it now!

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