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Shaken Faithless: July 2015
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Friday, July 31, 2015. Questions For Camille Paglia. I'm a fan of Camille Paglia. I think that she's an honest and original thinker who is also a gifted communicator. As such, I take interest in her recent comments at. Especially as they pertain to theology. Ms Paglia is an atheist, but of the thoughtful and respectful variety. She has no trouble identifying the positive contributions that religion has made to society. As she says:. If so, why? Clearly, they have no choice to act in any other manner.
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Shaken Faithless: May 2015
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Friday, May 22, 2015. We Finally Know Why Men Exist! According to recent discoveries outlined in the Telegraph. Males like myself are here to "help purge negative and maintain positive genetic variation in a population." So there you have it. There are questions to be asked regarding these assumptions:. Why do species "care" about survival in the first place? Why couldn't "nature" have randomly started with a death wish or with no motivation of any sort? What accounts for this perfection? What is man tha...
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Shaken Faithless: Modern Science: The Best Evidence for God To Date
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Sunday, August 9, 2015. Modern Science: The Best Evidence for God To Date. A reader on this post. Which outlines some of the issues posed to the materialist world-view due to the "Fine Tuning" of the Universe argument kindly linked a series of posts on the Mesora.org website called God vs. The Multiverse. The four posts take a few minutes to read and absorb but I think that they're well done and outline the issue (and its implications) in its fullness. In the proof, we will use. Scientists have long wond...
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Shaken Faithless: December 2014
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Saturday, December 20, 2014. King David or Aliens: What Do You Believe In More? You can read about it here. Should they be drawn at all? Despite the fact that it's logically understood that "lack of evidence is not evidence of lack," in the case of a (supposedly) major figure like David, there was a sense that we should have found something by now. When nothing was, it was taken as evidence that no such person actually existed. Perhaps in time Jewish national consciousness will be given its due and the o...
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Shaken Faithless: William Lane Craig and Me
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Monday, June 22, 2015. William Lane Craig and Me. Something associated with me is quite astounding. In any event, if you have any interest in the Cosmological Argument for God's existence you might enjoy giving this a listen: A Rabbi Looks at the Kalam Argument. Most of the information in the piece came from the writing of Theological Philosopher Edward Feser so at best I can only take credit for having understood what he said, but still. You can see the original article here. Alter Cocker Jewish Atheist.
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Shaken Faithless: 9 Reasons to Believe That the Biblical Exodus Actually Happened
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015. 9 Reasons to Believe That the Biblical Exodus Actually Happened. In 2013 Rabbi David Wolpe asserted in print and at the pulpit that the historical Exodus was a fiction. He based this conclusion on what he believed was (lack of) archaeological evidence. A common mistake. This lead biblical historian Richard Elliot Friedman (someone who's conclusions I generally have significant issues with) to respond in the following way:. Was There an Exodus? There is rich evidence that West-Semit...
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Shaken Faithless: April 2015
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Sunday, April 19, 2015. The Origin of Life Problem - Still Not Solved. A reader was kind enough to send me this article from ScienceMag.org entitled " Researchers May Have Solved The Origin-Of-Life Conundrum. That detail is almost certainly forever lost to history." And "this general scenario raises many questions and I am sure that it will be debated for some time to come.". I don't think that much has changed since then. Is this contention in fact true? Rabbi Moshe Averick has done yeoman's work in dec...
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Shaken Faithless: February 2015
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Monday, February 9, 2015. Fine Tuning: The Materialist Minefield. Not long ago, science thought that it had a comprehensive understanding of the workings of the universe pretty much wrapped up. As Lord Kelvin confidently remarked back at the end of the 19th century: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." You gotta appreciate the confidence (haughtiness? There but oh, how far from accurate he was. Logical possibilities must occur - in...
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Shaken Faithless: Questions For Camille Paglia
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Friday, July 31, 2015. Questions For Camille Paglia. I'm a fan of Camille Paglia. I think that she's an honest and original thinker who is also a gifted communicator. As such, I take interest in her recent comments at. Especially as they pertain to theology. Ms Paglia is an atheist, but of the thoughtful and respectful variety. She has no trouble identifying the positive contributions that religion has made to society. As she says:. If so, why? Clearly, they have no choice to act in any other manner.
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Shaken Faithless: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. The Atheist's Case of Commandment Envy. There's an interesting (and popular) post by Kimberly Winston in the Huffington Post entitled " 10 Commandments For Atheists Who Want to Explore Their Values. There are several aspects of the post that I find interesting. The first is that this strikes me as yet another example of how unsatisfying atheism must be as a philosophy and lifestyle - so much so that they appear to be in desperate want of ritual and guiding principles. Clearly n...
