Sam Harris defends his TED Talk

March 30, 2010

In a previous blog entry, I embedded the TED talk given by Sam Harris -- I'll embed the video again for reference: He apparently got both a lot of flak and a lot of praise that he thought came from misunderstandings. Moral Confusion in the name of "Science" | Project Reason. He wrote quite a [...]

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Sam Harris Ted Talk

March 23, 2010

I think that this TED talk -- posted yesterday -- is worth watching and thinking and arguing about. I don't want to pre-influence your thoughts, so I'll embed the video (be sure to watch through the end because he gets asked a few questions at the end) and I'll make further comments after the video. [...]

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Project Reason Video Contest

March 15, 2010

Project Reason (Formerly The Reason Project) -- a very Fight Club name -- had a video contest which requested submissions. I entered the contest myself, but did not make the final cut (deservedly so -- there are some really good finalists). The goals of Project Reason: "...to encourage critical thinking and erode the influence of [...]

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Conversational Atheist creates a YouTube video

February 28, 2010

I spent some quality time this weekend putting the finishing touches on my very first YouTube video as Conversational Atheist. Check it out: Supernatural guesses consistently fail -- a conversation As with my first ever web-comic, you can see the unbridled artistry of my sketches -- so lifelike it's almost uncanny. I do plan on [...]

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On math, chess and God

February 14, 2010

I wrote a previous entry which was based off a comment I sent to a theologian that I've been chatting with. He responded to me here. Theologian RD says: Mathematics maps onto the world but our intuition of which mathematics maps on is not infallible. The problem is with Conversational Atheist's apparent view that mathematics [...]

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Atheism and our inhuman nature

February 10, 2010

I wrote up a response to a rather lame article that I read on BeliefNet: Atheism and our inhuman nature, and I wanted to post the ideas here. The article criticizes the "New Atheists" because they present a Utopian view of humanity and its future. My response: I have read all of the popular "New [...]

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Gaining knowledge about external reality

February 2, 2010

A somewhat more philosophical post than I usually do... I wrote this up during an exchange w/ a theologian differentiating two ways we can gain knowledge. To a theologian: Let's start with mathematical truths -- I think that they are true and in a very real sense constitute knowledge. Knowledge about something that is abstract, [...]

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Into the Lion's Den

January 18, 2010

Tonight, I went to a three-hour meeting of Christian graduate students and professors who were discussing the "Sam Harris vs. Philip Ball" blog-debate that occurred over Ball's editorial in Nature. A full recap of the Harris-Ball interaction is available on The Reason Project's site: http://www.reasonproject.org/archive/item/what_should_science_dosam_harris_v_philip_ball/ I was the only atheist in attendance, and it was [...]

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New Design!

December 24, 2009

Ok, finally... I was so close for so long. I have the new site layout pretty much finished (I think). Let me know if you see some obvious mistakes when you're clicking around, and let me know what you think of the redesign. If you are reading this through an RSS feed, come check out [...]

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Upcoming changes...

November 2, 2009

So close to finishing my new theme layout... hopefully that'll be completed soon and won't cause any major disruptions to the site. Added as a new member to the blogroll: AiGBusted -- which is not about the company, but Answers in Genesis. The blog is focused on debunking creationism as a whole and Answers in [...]

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