The ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 1
Introduction I am at it again. I’ve set my sights on yet another Christian author who has published one more in a long line of books seeking to refute the New Atheists. This one is titled The ‘New’...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 2
A2 ‘Faith is irrational’ and ‘demands a positive suspension of critical faculties.’ The author cites several quotes by the New Atheists stating how faith is “unevidenced belief,” but disagrees with...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 3
Chapter 3: People who live in glass houses…? A3 Religious beliefs are memes, mind viruses, self-delusion, placebos, wishful thinking and indoctrination. Poole argues, But if belief in a God is a ‘mind...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 4
Chapter 4: ‘…and may be used in evidence.’ A4 ‘Faith (belief without evidence) is a virtue. The more your beliefs defy the evidence, the more virtuous you are.’ Poole begins by stating the following,...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 5
Chapter 5: Ancient.doc A5 ‘…Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code…is indeed fabricated from start to finish: invented, made-up fiction. In that respect, it is exactly like the gospels.’ [Maimonides, a...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 6
Chapter 6: Explaining Explaining A6 ‘Historically, religion aspired to explain our own existence and the nature of the universe… In this role it is now completely superseded by science.’ ‘Religion has...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 7
Chapter 7: Where do we draw the boundary? A7 ‘ Religion is a scientific theory.’ ‘I pay religions the compliment of regarding them as scientific theories.’ ‘I shall suggest that the existence of God is...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 8
Chapter 8: An endangered species? A8 ‘…good scientists who are sincerely religious in the full, traditional sense,’ both in the United States and in Britain, ‘stand out for their rarity and are a...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 9
Chapter 9: Back to the drawing board – but whose? A9 ‘Darwin has removed the main argument for God’s existence.’ Michael Poole begins, The final two chapters will consider ‘the central argument’ of...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 10
Chapter 10: Unpeeling the Cosmic Onion A10 ‘…some kind of multiverse theory could in principle do for physics the same explanatory work as Darwin does for biology, rendering God improbable. ‘…any God...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 1
Introduction I am at it again. I’ve set my sights on yet another Christian author who has published one more in a long line of books seeking to refute the New Atheists. This one is titled The ‘New’...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 2
A2 ‘Faith is irrational’ and ‘demands a positive suspension of critical faculties.’ The author cites several quotes by the New Atheists stating how faith is “unevidenced belief,” but disagrees with...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 3
Chapter 3: People who live in glass houses…? A3 Religious beliefs are memes, mind viruses, self-delusion, placebos, wishful thinking and indoctrination. Poole argues, But if belief in a God is a ‘mind...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 4
Chapter 4: ‘…and may be used in evidence.’ A4 ‘Faith (belief without evidence) is a virtue. The more your beliefs defy the evidence, the more virtuous you are.’ Poole begins by stating the following,...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 5
Chapter 5: Ancient.doc A5 ‘…Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code…is indeed fabricated from start to finish: invented, made-up fiction. In that respect, it is exactly like the gospels.’ [Maimonides, a...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 6
Chapter 6: Explaining Explaining A6 ‘Historically, religion aspired to explain our own existence and the nature of the universe… In this role it is now completely superseded by science.’ ‘Religion has...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 7
Chapter 7: Where do we draw the boundary? A7 ‘ Religion is a scientific theory.’ ‘I pay religions the compliment of regarding them as scientific theories.’ ‘I shall suggest that the existence of God is...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 8
Chapter 8: An endangered species? A8 ‘…good scientists who are sincerely religious in the full, traditional sense,’ both in the United States and in Britain, ‘stand out for their rarity and are a...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 9
Chapter 9: Back to the drawing board – but whose? A9 ‘Darwin has removed the main argument for God’s existence.’ Michael Poole begins, The final two chapters will consider ‘the central argument’ of...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don’t Hold Water?: A Refutation, Part 10
Chapter 10: Unpeeling the Cosmic Onion A10 ‘…some kind of multiverse theory could in principle do for physics the same explanatory work as Darwin does for biology, rendering God improbable. ‘…any God...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....