Rebecca Bynum’s Misinformed Atheism Bashing
Books
The New Atheism is not so New
Rebecca Bynum’s Progressive Diminishment of Man
The Value of a Religious Education
An exclusively intellectual education leads by a very obvious process, to hard-heartedness and the contempt of all moral influences. An exclusively moral education tends to fatuity by the over-excitement of the sensibilities. An exclusively religious education ends in insanity, if it do not take a directly opposite course and lead to atheism.
C. S. Lewis: The Catalyst of my Deconversion
When I was a Christian, I read plenty of C. S. Lewis. I read The Screwtape Letters
Cataloging my Books on LibraryThing
Last updated: Thursday, June 18, 2015I haven’t been working on embedding more of my videos lately, because I have begun cataloging my books on LibraryThing.com. I recently discovered GoodReads.com and Shelfari.com, which renewed my interest in using a site that catalogs books. Since I already had a LibraryThing account, I began using that first. After … [Read more…]
The Importance of Critical Thinking in Religion
If one religion is the one true religion, all others are false. If none are true, all are false. If each has some truth, the many differences between religions still imply a good deal of error in religion. Since faith produces varying results, critical thinking is what we need to discern truth in religion.
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea echoes my own understanding of evolution and elaborates on it further. Prior to reading this book, I was already thinking about how natural selection is an ordering principle that can account for order at all levels of reality, even accounting for how order can arise from chaos.