dogma

Greetings folks - Apologies for making my first post such a potentially off putting one, I've been a lurker on here sometime and a contributing guest author to the site so I thought I'd get your opinions on this subject. Reading these forums I see the vast majority of posters are skeptics in...

In the June JREF Newsletter, Jeff Wagg recaps a tenet widely accepted among skeptics: "Disbelief is fine, even advisable, but one must hold out the possibility that new evidence will be presented". In other words, we stop short of saying that any unproven claim is definitively false. We say...

Philosophy, the Maligned If there is any field of study more maligned than philosophy, I do not know of it. Often derided as navel-gazing or nihilistic, it is dismissed as irrelevant before anything akin to a fair hearing. In fact, the open derision has become so prevalent, that is goes almost...

Has anyone read this book: The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World It looks interesting.

The root of fanaticism is not faith, but a lack of faith. It is a lack of faith in everything but God--and ultimately, in God as well. If someone lacks faith in humanity, in the ability of most ordinary people to do the right thing most of the time, then values must be based elsewhere than in...

I am going to take this opportunity to pimp my own podcast, which I think is pretty good: Dogma Free America. You can get it on Iturnes like the others, or at dogmafreeamerica.com. I think that the latest episode on the acrheology of Nazareth is particular interesting.:boxedin:

Logic The branch of philosophy that deals with the formal properties of arguments and the philosophical problems associated with them. The use of critical thinking, particularly binary yes/no thinking and inductive/deductive reasoning, as a means of testing ideas and debate. Reason In...

Well, the Southern Baptist church of the USA admitted, in 1995, that slavery is wrong.

I've been engaging in a number of conversations on another forum, and have been, for the first time, seriously challenging people's points of view. However, i'm shocked by how ingrained some people's beliefs are. It's impossible to reason with these people. Someone was claiming that there was a...