by Carl Howard | Oct 30, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Blogging the Bible
Chapter 31 completes the main part of the book of Job (the only thing left is Elihu’s speeches and God’s cameo). The one thing of note is this: I have covenanted with my eyes Not to gaze on a maiden […]Calamity is surely for the iniquitous; Misfortune, for the worker...
by Carl Howard | Oct 28, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
Now that I’ve given some background on the historical trial of Galileo, time to report on the Monday night retrial at UNSW. It had an audience of about 900 and was taped by the ABC for Compass (a show focussing on religion). You can watch Compass online no matter...
by Carl Howard | Oct 26, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy, Science and Skepticism
Tonight, the University of NSW is hosting a re-trial of Galileo, organised by my honours supervisor Peter Slezak. I was lucky enough to to retry Galileo in my undergrad degree (when Slezak taught a couse on it) as a prosecutor*, so it’s great to see that this has been...
by Carl Howard | Sep 3, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, Science and Skepticism
One of the most long-standing arguments used by religious debaters (eg. Dinesh D’Souza) is to claim that atheism is responsible for more killings than all the religions put together because of Stalin, Hitler, Mao etc. I have typically seen several types of responses...
by Carl Howard | Aug 15, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, Blogging Jewish Law
I want to look at stoning in Judaism as a quick case study of how concepts evolve in religions as their practitioners mature morally. Early Hebrew Bible: You can get stoned for anything (there’s about 22 capital crimes, although stoning itself only applies to some)....
by Carl Howard | Aug 15, 2009 | Atheism and Religion, Blog Topics, Philosophy
A quickie today. In the Atheist Experience, Russell and Jeff dissect the Argument from Game Design, as proposed on a forum of Christian gamers. It does something like this: If you design a computer game, the only objective purpose/meaning to the game is the one that...
