Do ‘Spirit’ and ‘Supernatural Agency’ Explain Anything?
Been a while since I've written here, so getting back into it with a short observation.
I notice that some theists critique naturalists by claiming that the latter believe nothing …
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Response to Oxford Mathematician [John Lennox] DESTROYS Atheism (15 Minute Brilliancy!)
A friend of mine recently sent me this video to get a response. I haven't done a deep dive into this for a while, so I figured I'd go through …
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Reproducing Richard Carrier's Calculations
It is said that a published work without the code is little more than an advertisement. It is for this reason that I try to make sure that I publish …
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A poor introduction to Bayesian Reasoning
I've had my disagreements with Jonathan McLatchie a few times, some of it here, and now there is another interview Bayesian Probability and Intelligent Design: A Beginner's Guide that someone …
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What would I expect to be in the Bible?
I've read the entire Bible twice, the most recent time this past year. Both times I was underwhelmed by the content in the book. It had so much barbarism, and …
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Some More Comments on Undesigned Coincidences
An "undesigned coincidence" is used in an argument for the reliability of the Gospels, notable by Jonathan McLatchie, Tim McGrew and Lydia McGrew, and is defined as
When you have …
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Bible in a Year -- My experience
So I listened to the Bible in a Year podcast with Fr. Mike Schmitz where Fr. Mike Schmitz reads the entire bible across 365 days. I had read the Bible …
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Why the fine tuning argument is not convincing to me (Part 1 of 2)
The fine-tuning argument is an argument in philosophy and cosmology that suggests the existence of a fine-tuned universe points towards the existence of a intelligent designer or a purpose behind …
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Claims are not (always) evidence
Here's my short rambling rant about the claims-evidence distinction. In a number of debates, but more famously this one with Jonathan McLatchie, Matt Dillahunty states that "claims are not evidence …
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence a probabilistic analysis
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
I think no pithy quote has caused so much angst with apologists than this one from Carl Sagan, directed in particular to religious …
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Probability and the Independence of Testimony
In a previous post I examined a simple model of the interaction of testimony with scientific inquiry, and how it can affect the probabilities of the truth of miracle claims …
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The "God" of the Philosophers Is Empty
So I recently had a bit of a discussion which ended somewhat abruptly with complaints of category errors on my part and implied scientism. The initial Tweet was:
https://twitter …
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Bad Apologetics on Bayes - Part 3
In this YouTube episode, Bad Apologetics Ep 18 - Bayes Machine goes BRRRRRRRRR I join Nathan Ormond, Kamil Gregor, and James Fodor to discuss Timothy and Lydia McGrew's article in The …
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Bad Apologetics on Bayes - Part 2
In this YouTube episode, Bad Apologetics Ep 18 - Bayes Machine goes BRRRRRRRRR I join Nathan Ormond, Kamil Gregor, and James Fodor to discuss Timothy and Lydia McGrew's article in The …
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Why undesigned coincidences are not compelling to me
An "undesigned coincidence" is used in an argument for the reliability of the Gospels, notable by Jonathan McLatchie, Tim McGrew and Lydia McGrew, and is defined as
When you have …
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Sometimes more testimony is worse. Scientific methods impact source reliability
When asked the question raised by McLatchie,
I would have to say that new testimony does not raise my probability for a miracle, mostly because all prior attempts to do …
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Bad Apologetics on Bayes - Part 1
In this YouTube episode, Bad Apologetics Ep 18 - Bayes Machine goes BRRRRRRRRR I join Nathan Ormond, Kamil Gregor, and James Fodor to discuss Timothy and Lydia McGrew's article in The …
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Miracles are rare except when they aren't -- how science actually makes miracle claims unlikely
In this week's Unbelievable Podcast the topic was miracles. I've written about miracles a number of times, but there always seems to something new to say. In this episode, the …
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Sometimes there really isn't enough evidence to believe a claim
A particular response has now happened twice in an ongoing discussion about extraordinary claims, and I felt I needed to think about it more deeply. The response is, essentially, that …
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Ongoing Conversation with Jonathan McLatchie including what would convince me, a visit from Jean Luc Picard, and more
I'd like to thank Jonathan McLatchie for the detailed response to my two-part response.
If you're following along, we have:
- Unbelievable podcast episode Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? Jonathan …
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Bad Apologetics miscellaneous topics from Jonathan McLatchie
In the Unbelievable podcast episode Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? Jonathan McLatchie vs Jonathan Pearce I was struck by several claims and points, especially made by Jonathan McLatchie. I …
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