Three Atheist Arguments That Did Not Survive the Week
Thousands of gods, a Canaanite Yahweh, and a rule about evidence. Three popular objections came to my page this week, and here is what happened.
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You Cannot Argue Against Reason Without Using It
A student told his professor that logic is just a cultural construct. One question exposed the problem, and it points to something built into reality.
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Four Places the Dawkins Passage Refutes Itself
A passage attributed to Richard Dawkins says that when we die, nothing happens. I give him credit for honesty, then show where the argument collapses.
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The Primordial Soup Is Missing From the Rocks
The primordial soup appears in every textbook. Geologists have searched the oldest rocks for the residue it should have left and have not found it.
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Piltdown Man and the Fossil That Fit Too Well
For forty-one years the experts called Piltdown Man genuine. It was a forgery, and it survived because it delivered exactly what the theory expected.
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The Simplest Cell Still Needs 473 Genes
Scientists stripped a bacterium down as far as it could go, and it still needed 473 genes. The simplest life we know of is nowhere near simple.
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The Species That Was Built From a Single Pig Tooth
In 1922 a new human ancestor was announced from one worn molar. Five years later the tooth turned out to belong to an extinct member of the pig family.
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Five Signs a Relationship Is Built on Sentiment
A beautiful wedding lasts one day. Here are five warning signs that a relationship is resting on feelings instead of the substance a marriage needs.
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Books Nobody Removed and a Fish Story That Falls Apart
Was anything cut from the Bible, and did we really come from fish? The last two questions in this series get a careful, documented answer.
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Were the Gospel Writers Eyewitnesses, and Could They Write Greek?
Two objections, one answer. The Gospels bear the marks of eyewitness testimony, and the Greek they are written in is the everyday Greek of their world.
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