I’m doing a series on what I’d like to call “Bible dealbreakers,” reasons why I reject the Bible’s authority and therefore reject Christianity. This is part three of five six. If the Bible were revealed to people by a supernatural being who created and still controls the entire universe, I’d expect it to contain some [...]
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Bible dealbreakers: Bad science
Posted by NFQ on February 23, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/02/bible-dealbreakers-bad-science/
Friday Link Roundup #29
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have written a musical, The Book of Mormon, debuting on Broadway next month. (Coincidentally, I just caught this old South Park episode on TV the other day.) Was Frederick Douglass a secular humanist? (Via.) Speaking of which — and this is off-topic except for the previous bullet [...]
Posted by NFQ on February 11, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/02/friday-link-roundup-29/
What is a god, anyway?
In many debates/conversations between atheists and theists, there’s an elephant in the room, an unacknowledged and certainly unanswered question: what are we all talking about? (Admittedly, this comes up most often in discussions with deists or the very liberal religious, who don’t adhere strictly to any scripture’s claims.) Before we can really tackle the question [...]
Posted by NFQ on February 7, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/02/what-is-a-god-anyway/
Gaskell v. University of Kentucky
Well, that blog vacation lasted longer than I expected it would. How’s it going? I’ve missed you all! Thanks to my week of scheduled posts and my mostly-absence from blogging, I missed this NYT story from December 18 about the legal controversy from a 2007 hiring decision the University of Kentucky made in their search [...]
Posted by NFQ on January 3, 2011
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2011/01/gaskell-v-university-of-kentucky/
Friday Link Roundup #25
The end-of-semester crunch came at me out of nowhere this time. I’ve been busy, but I’ll be catching up this weekend and back next week with lots of good stuff. In the meantime, here are your weekly miscellaneous links. Abstinence: you’re doing it wrong. (Heh. “Doing it.”) Steve Wells has a long list of reasons [...]
Posted by NFQ on December 3, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/12/friday-link-roundup-25/
Review: The Selfish Gene
I’ve remarked here before that I’ve never actually read any of Richard Dawkins’ books. That’s soon to change, as I’m about to finish reading his 1976 bestseller The Selfish Gene. (It’s the 30th anniversary edition, so at this point there’s an introduction, two prefaces, a forward, and endnotes, much of which has been added in [...]
Posted by NFQ on November 8, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/11/review-the-selfish-gene/
Friday Link Roundup #21
File this under “makes me happy and sad at the same time” — the Air Force Academy now has a blossoming “spirituality community” for Pagans and Wiccans. When you’re writing a card to congratulate someone on their wedding, it’s probably it’s a good idea to leave out any clauses that start with “Though we were [...]
Posted by NFQ on October 29, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/10/friday-link-roundup-21/
Friday Link Roundup #18
I skipped my usual Friday link post last week — I guess because I wrote about almost everything I was intending to, which is a good thing. This week, it looks like I’m bringing you a special all-webcomics edition of the roundup. I empathized pretty hard with this Buttersafe strip. SMBC brought us two religion-themed [...]
Posted by NFQ on October 8, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/10/friday-link-roundup-18/
I don’t care about evolution!
Oh, I care about science. I find it fascinating for its own sake, and I also recognize the amazing contributions that scientific knowledge can make toward improving our quality of life. Biology, including the theory of evolution, is no exception. But if you want to convince me to give up atheism and believe in your [...]
Posted by NFQ on September 9, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/09/i-dont-care-about-evolution/
Newsflash: Religion is not science
Not long ago, the New York Times started a philosophy blog called The Stone. This sounded like a potentially interesting venture; I was looking forward to discussions of difficult moral quandaries, free will, theories of justice, and all the other good stuff one normally talks about in philosophy courses. Instead, The Stone has relied heavily [...]
Posted by NFQ on September 7, 2010
http://www.noforbiddenquestions.com/2010/09/newsflash-religion-is-not-science/
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