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Hitchens addresses the question of whether religious people behave more virtuously than non-religious people (atheists, agnostics, or freethinkers). He uses the battle against slavery in the United States, and Abraham Lincoln, to support his claim that non-religious people battle for moral causes with as much vigor and effect as religious ...
Richard Dawkins at the 35th American Atheists Convention. In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins posits that "the existence of God is a scientific hypothesis like any other." He goes on to propose a continuous "spectrum of probabilities" between two extremes of opposite certainty, which can be represented by seven "milestones".
Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible: The Bible refers to lost books – even pagan ones – much more than you'd think. Omphalos hypothesis: The answer to all the evidence against creationism – maybe the Earth was created to look like it was billions of years old! Phallic saint: Figures of holy people, but a hundred times more hung ...
It is not the ordinary form of madness, but a behavior that is consistent with the premises of a spiritual path or a form of complete absorption in God. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] DiValerio notes that comparable "mad saint" traditions exist in Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic and Christian cultures, but warns against "flights of fancy" that too easily draw ...
An internet-based religion based on the belief that file sharing is a sacred virtue which must remain protected. It was given recognition by the Swedish government in January 2012. It was founded by a philosophy student, Isak Gerson. [47] Matrixism, or The Path of the One A new religious movement inspired by the 1999 movie The Matrix. It ...
Shermer explores the psychology of scholars and business men who give up their careers in their pursuit to broadcast their paranormal beliefs. In his last chapter, added to the revised version, Shermer explains why he believes that "intelligent people" can be more susceptible to believing in weird things than others.
the world based on hearsay or old wives’ tales or whatever you want to call them. Instead why not embrace a science-based approach: read on as we weigh up the evidence and come to a scientific conclusion about reality. With science you can build a complex explanation for an observation as high as a house of
The Age of Reason – A rare, original copy on display at the Center for Inquiry library in Amherst, NY.. This list of books about skepticism is a skeptic's library of works centered on scientific skepticism, religious skepticism, critical thinking, scientific literacy, and refutation of claims of the paranormal.