I recently saw an edited clip on YouTube in which a person said something that was false but very funny in response to a question. In the comments, someone said that the person in the video didn’t respond to the question that way, and that the clip was just edited to make it seem that…
Tag: skepticism
One man’s 25-year opus (3rd in a series on sovereign citizens)
Prologue In first my post on sovereign citizens, The conspiracy theory that revolves around wordplay, my goal was to illustrate what the sovereign citizen movement is and highlight the particularly strange language they use, which often stands out immediately. Having limited myself to that, I next set out to write a second post covering several…
A nihilist rebuttal to the cosmological argument
This is the basic form of the Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of god. Some say premise 2 is implied by the big bang theory, but this is not strictly correct. Science cannot, at present, distinguish between a universe that began to exist and a universe that always existed. One counter to this argument…
Rabbit hole: New Concepts in Global Tectonics
The New Concepts in Global Tectonics (NCGT) Journal is a pseudoscience publication imitating an academic journal since 1996. Their motto is “accept nothing on authority,” referring of course to the authority of peer reviewed scientific consensus. They publish work largely from “independent researchers,” in other words individuals with no institutional affiliation and potentially no relevant…
The omnibenevolence paradox
This, what I call a paradox, is a major irreconcilable difference between myself and some religious people, especially Christians. If you have faith that God is all good, then you are presupposing that whatever God does must be good. If you personally disagree with God then it must be your moral compass that’s wrong. In…
A response to Catholicism on “What is truth?”
The following question was asked on catholic.com: I got into a discussion about truth, and I had the opinion that there is only one Truth and that is God. So what is truth? Is it something we believe in completely, body and soul? Or is it something God reveals to us? How do we know…
I’m not entirely happy with the rise of the “nones”
Over the past decades in the United States, there has been a rise in the number of people claiming no religious affiliation, or “nones.” While this includes atheists and agnostics, these individuals are often distinguished from those who actively identify as such. “Nones” may be agnostic or atheist, but most have a theistic or deistic…
Intelligent design’s scope problem
Intelligent design (ID) is the position that life must have been designed by an intelligent creator and thus could not have evolved naturalistically. Setting aside all the positive evidence for naturalistic evolution, there is a glaring problem with the very idea of ID itself. Arguments for ID often take the form of comparing human-engineered mechanisms…
More evidence against flat earth: star trails
This is a follow-up to my post How we can know the earth is a ball without relying on modern science or traveling long distances?. It is well-known and easily observable by the naked eye (even by a single individual if they use modern travel) that the stars appear to rotate counterclockwise in the Northern…
A response to Faithroots apologetics
Faithroots is a blog about theology and apologetics that posted “God in the dock: objections to his greatness and goodness (part 2)”. The post covers several arguments for and against the existence of God. It’s interesting to me for a couple reasons. For one, it appears to be a good faith effort to present the…
thoughts on mind 