counter-apologetics - A Tippling Philosopher

John Loftus and the Whole Kit and Caboodle

I have to thank John Loftus (author, ex-minister and owner of the great Debunking Christianity blog) for giving me a leg up in the blogging world when, running a tiny independent version of the A Tippling Philosopher blog as I was, he allowed me to write for him there. From

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Pearced Off! More Skepticule Counter-Apologetics Segments Out

I, as you may well know, contribute to the Skepticule podcast by recording a counter-apologetics segment for them, Pearced Off. My segment is always followed by an interesting discussion of ideas brought up by the 'panel' of Pauls.

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The Little Book of Unholy Questions Review

Here is another review to my Little Book of Unholy Questions - a 4/5 to add to six 5/5s. Er, buy it! (please... - click on the cover image to access it on amazon)

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Free Will, the Problem of Evil and Heaven and Christian commenters

I don't know why, but Christians seem to be posting a few comments just now on some old videos of mine. The comments irritate me because they are not so well thought out. This 'sombodysdad' in particular... People seem to think they are all that and

atheism

Loftus has written some cracking books

It's no secret that I am a big fan of John Loftus' books. He has written some corkers. In fact, his class Why I Became an Atheist (or WIBA) is exactly that, a classic. It remains one of the best counter-apologetics books out there and was hugely significant in contributing to my movement toward bein

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50 Great Myths About Atheism

Russell Blackford, one of the many superb writers we have here at SIN (over at The Hellfire Club) is going through a prolific writing period, a right purple patch. One of his recent titles just hitting the bookshelves and online retail listings is 50 Great Myths of Atheism. Here is the book descr

apologetics

Apologist Knechtle owned in debate with Beahan

SO this is a few years old now, but this debate is great. Jeremy Beahan, presenter on Reasonable Doubts podcast and radio show, calmly deconstructs every argument this rather smarmy apologist gives. I enjoyed listening to this one, and I hope to hear Beahan do more debates. Good stuff.

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Tooley vs William Lane Craig - a short review

So I came across this debate between Dr Michael Tooley, a philosopher, and William Lane Craig, which can be seen here: This was a cracking debate based on the fact that Tooley was a philosopher, and prepared. Let me say that again. He was prepared. He had done his homework.

Carl Sagan

Interview with skydivephil, creator of superb videos

Many of you will have come across the superb videos of skydivephil on You Tube and embedded across various forums. That is, unless you have had your heads buried in the sand. I first came across them when they critiqued william Lane Craig on the Kalam Cosmological Argument as can be seen here:

Adam and Eve

Counter-apologetics on Original Sin, Adam and Eve, the Westboro Baptist Church etc available now!

I, as you may well know, contribute to the Skepticule podcast by recording a counter-apologetics segment for them, Pearced Off. My segment is always followed by an interesting discussion of ideas brought up by the 'panel' of Pauls. Here are the latest offerings: Skepticule 50 - When just

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New Talk - "The Case for God on Trial" went down a treat

I gave my first talk of this name this week to Dorset Humanists, covering five different arguments (4 against God and 1 for), allowing for audience participation after each argument. Personally, I really enjoyed it - disseminating some quite intricate, at times, philosophical and theological arguments to a popular audience,

Cosmology

Problems with the Fine-Tuning Argument

Here are some notes I made some time ago, based on various sources, some of which are linked below. Richard Carrier's book "Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism" provided an excellent backbone to the first set of points. The methodological and other problems:

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4 counter-apologetics segments available on podcast!

So sorry to Skepticule podcast for being behind on plugging the podcast! I, as you may well know, contribute to the Skepticule podcast by recording a counter-apologetics segment for them, Pearced Off. My segment is always followed by an interesting discussion of ideas brought up by the 'panel' of Pa

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The 'Why I am a Christian' series - Randal Rauser

As mentioned in my last post, I was graciously asked by Randal Rauser on his blog recently to provide a synopsis of a few paragraphs to run in his series “Why I am an atheist” (or not a Christian. The series has been interesting and has elicited testimonies from Justin Schieber, Counter Apologist, J

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Transcend This!

Pat Condell rants so eloquently. Transcendence, I mean, what does it mean? (H/T Sergio Paulo Sider) http://youtu.be/Dvmrfa8tIAI

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Why I am an Atheist

Randal Rauser, with whom I have had a radio debate about the Nativity, is running a series on his blog asking atheists why they are atheist (or not Christian). He has asked several atheist bloggers and authors, including myself, to produce a paragraph. Justin Schieber, Counter Apologist and Ed Babin

consequentialism

Counter-apologetics segment on God being a consequentialist

Here is another counter-apologetics segment on the Skepticule podcast. My segment starts at 53.30. This one is on the idea that God is a consequentialist. Check it out here.

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My new counter-apologetics segment available on podcast

So a recent Skepticule podcast has become available. In episode 42 I give a segment on doxastic voluntarism, something Andy Schueler has written on here. This is the idea that we cannot just 'choose' to believe something, but that there is an automatic, non-conscious threshold which the evidence

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My counter-apologetics segment to the Skepticule podcast now available

A big thanks to the three Pauls who create the Skepticule podcast and who have granted me a short counter-apologetics segment on their show. The one which I recorded was about perfection, a topic about which I have blogged before. Check it out! My segment starts at 21.54, but check out the whole pod