Continuing what is apparently Webcomics Week here at No Forbidden Questions, here’s a panel from Dinosaur Comics that I’ve been meaning to highlight and talk about. You can click the image to see the whole strip (it’s amusing), but it’s not really important as far as the discussion I want to have right now is [...]
St. T-Rex’s Ontological Argument
Posted by NFQ on April 11, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/04/st-t-rexs-ontological-argument/
Just look at a daffodil!
This conversation from the webcomic Rob and Elliot will probably feel frustratingly familiar to many of you… but I bet you’ve never seen it wrap up the way it does here! (Click the picture below to see the last two panels.) If you want more atheist humor, you should check out (Rob and Elliot writer) [...]
Posted by NFQ on April 10, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/04/just-look-at-a-daffodil/
Need some help with that analysis?
1.00 FTE is a single-panel webcomic about corporate life. While I don’t work in a cubicle myself, I still identify with a lot of the humor. I particularly liked last Wednesday’s comic, and I suspect that you out there in atheist-blog-readerland might get a chuckle out of it too: “People can’t be ruled by both [...]
Posted by NFQ on April 9, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/04/need-some-help-with-that-analysis/
A strong delusion
I have yet to hear a compelling explanation of why these words appear in 2 Thessalonians 2 (verses 7-14). Emphasis, of course, is mine: For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way. And then the lawless one will [...]
Posted by NFQ on March 10, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/03/a-strong-delusion/
Faith healers holding out on us?
In the comments of a recent post on evidence-based versus faith-based claims, Luke Holzmann (who writes at the Sonlight Blog) had some interesting things to say about miracles, pointing out that “Your assumptions make a huge difference in [how you interpret] those instances.” When I responded with an example about people getting better from colds [...]
Posted by NFQ on March 8, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/03/faith-healers-holding-out-on-us/
Undermining rational thought
I stumbled upon this hilarious website called proofthatgodexists.org. The emblem of the site is a circle containing the URL and the words “Absolute Apologetics,” as well as a tic-tac-toe board with X’s in all nine spaces — I guess to drive home the degree to which they feel they’ve won. The site leads you through [...]
Posted by NFQ on March 5, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/03/undermining-rational-thought/
On personal relationships
“I’m not religious; I have a personal relationship with Jesus.” Perhaps you’ve heard this line before. Perhaps you’ve delivered this line before. Setting aside for the time being the interesting phenomenon of religious people accepting the adjective “religious” as negative, I want to talk about what it might mean to have a personal relationship with [...]
Posted by NFQ on March 2, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/03/on-personal-relationships/
Legitimate supernatural claims
I’ve had a number of conversations with theists in which they tell me their beliefs are grounded in evidence, not blind faith. As a scientist, I’m surprised when they can’t offer a hypothetical scenario in which they would change their beliefs. Because that’s the thing about basing your belief on evidence, isn’t it? If you [...]
Posted by NFQ on March 1, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/03/legitimate-supernatural-claims/
Grad school >> NFQ
Man, I miss you guys. I’m just lacking the mental energy these days to put together decent blog posts. I’m focusing on being a responsible grad student and I have some looming deadlines plus a general desire to graduate someday, ever. This leaves me rather drained when it comes to writing about why someone is [...]
Posted by NFQ on February 15, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/02/grad-school-nfq/
In love with God?
I honestly can’t tell if this song is supposed to have a religious meaning or a romantic one. (Fans of Christian music, please hear me when I say, we’re not kidding when we say a lot of it sounds like people who want to make out with God. Major ick, though I guess not inconsistent [...]
Posted by NFQ on January 23, 2012
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2012/01/in-love-with-god/
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