God is a byproduct of your hard-wired narcissism
“The spiritual things — the exotic phenomena people experience — in general violate the things we know to be correct on the basis of experiment, so they’re highly likely to be wrong,”
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Atheism
Richard Dawkins is Wrong About Death
Richard Dawkins is wrong. He wants us to stop whining about our deaths; to stop fearing our ultimate demise, because we are lucky to be alive.
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Resuscitation, by Cryonics or Otherwise, Is a Religious Mandate
A well known and atheist-minded Transhumanist, Zoltan Istvan blames religion for an anti-cryonics law in Canada.
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The Case for Soft Core Atheism
I would like to summarize and comment on the May 15, 2014 New York Times interview of philosopher Philip Kitcher by the philosopher Gary Gutting on the topic of “The Case for Soft Atheism” It is closely connected with the issues in my previous post, “Modern Cosmology Versus Creation by Gods.” Here is an abridged version of the conversation. G – You “take religious doctrines to have become incredi...
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Modern Cosmology Versus Creation by Gods
Traditional theism doesn’t just say "some" being created the universe, but that it was created with us in mind. The evidence of the huge structure of the cosmos, with most of it irrelevant to life, our location in that universe and the eons of time necessary for evolution belie the claim that it was created for us.
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What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate
In a recent article over at the ironically named "Evolution News", an intelligent design blog, ID advocate and frequent critic of transhumanism Wesley J. Smith gets nearly everything wrong.
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Religion+ for Humanity+
Should we leave open the possibility that religious traditions may have something to offer to the transhumanist movement?
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