If you are like me and ask yourself the Big Questions fairly frequently, you probably ask yourself perhaps the biggest question of them all: Is there a God?
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Author examines the definition of atheism, the history of atheism, speaks about various notable atheists from history and examines whether they really were atheists in the same sense of the word as we use the word today, or were they “merely” sceptics or something else entirely.
Unlike, say, Dawkins, whose books in my opinion do make similarly grandiose claims, without a strong philosophical foundation, here we see that the author takes extra care to try to disprove the strongest arguments possible. He understands that it does not make much sense to disprove a weak argument and leave the stronger one untouched. Naturally, some would say that Dawkins’ books are written for a more general population.
In this post, we will look at “Atheism” and try to come up with a definition that…
The problem with the argument is that theists can easily get out of it. They can simply claim that omnipotence does not mean a being can do EVERYTHING. Omnipotence means that a being can do anything logically possible.
On this site, I often argue that we should think critically—not take whatever pundits, influences, preachers and…
21 lessons for the 21st century by Yuval Noah Harari. It’s a great book by a brilliant…
Many people talk about secularism these days. Yet many of them do not know what they are…
No, it’s not a group of people just hanging around at beaches and swimming pools naked. That’s…
In the previous post about arguments for the existence of God, we touched upon the Cosmological argument. We…