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The Al-Gore Heuristic for reasoning on climate change
by bohm inlets say we wanted to determine if it was a good idea to wash ones hands after taking a dump if one wish to cook food.
we can imagine two ways to determine it:.
1) evidence-based reasoning.
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Why WLCs lottery counter-example for "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is flawed
by bohm ini recently began reading strobels "the case for faith" and in chapter two wlc repeat his refutation that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence".
his argument is as follows: .
this standard would prevent you from believing in all sorts of events that we do rationally embrace.
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Refuting Robin Collins argument for fine-tuning
by bohm ini have lately tried to rethink my position on gods existence and tried to be more critical of the atheistic position.
this has partly been spurned by my impression objections to theistic arguments often rely on the same errors atheist accuse theists of, for instance using the shotgun-method (i.e.
picking 3 faults with all premises in the arguments) or building conclusion on a web of arguments and, when considering a particular argument, supporting it by other parts of the web or simply not addressing the argument very well.. as part of this i came across collins 1999 article on fine-tuning.
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I have no honor
by bohm init occured to me on my way to work this morning that the concept of honor is rather silly at best, and more often quite dangerous if you really believe you have it.. think about it, what good is honor supposed to do?.
right of the bat we can all name a number of really stupid things which are associated with honor: honor killings, for instance, where a member of the family is murdered for insulting the families honor (you wonder how the honor ever actually tells people it has been offended), or duels which was a sport between aristocrats.
then there is the honor of dead people which can linger on for centuries, a certain prophet comes to mind, and it seems even dead objects like flags, banners, documents or nations can have honor which can be invoked to kill or maim others.. what are the legitimate invocation of honor as a reason to act a certain way?
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Its all very simple, God is Energy
by bohm inhow it works:.
theist: let me explain, god is energy.. atheist: okay but i thought energy was.. (read up the textbook definition).
theist: thats not what i mean!
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New Atheism+ calls for middle-class white cis-man Dawkins to move over.
by bohm inin what appears to be the 117th skism in the "atheist community", a group of people have desided to form "atheism plus", defined as good old unbelief plus various values such as social justice, support of womens rights, protest racism etc.
see for instance richard carriers writeup:.
http://freethoughtblogs.com/carrier/archives/2207/.
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Watchtower library is now online -- http://wol.jw.org
by bohm ini dont know if any of you have noticed this, but the watchtower library is now available online: .
http://wol.jw.org.
notice it only contain a subset of all publications, for instance the watchtower only goes back to year 2000. .
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MSL -- anyone else watching the mars landing?
by bohm inlive video: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/mars/curiosity_news3.html.
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Short video: "I Was A Deluded 9/11 Truther"
by bohm inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuluqfeqfuu&feature=feedu.
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Mr. Deity and the Philosopher, on being good
by bohm inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwf6qd-remy&feature=feedf.