Hitchens’s razor is an epistemological razor expressed by writer Christopher Hitchens. It says that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim; if this burden is […]
Tag: religion
Experience is Evidence
And evidence is justification. And justification is what makes belief knowledge. We’ve already discussed how knowledge is justified true belief. But most of our human experience is justified only by our senses. This is knowledge. […]
Sin means Free
Sin is proof we have free will. If we didn’t have free will there would be no fall in Eden, no rebellion in heaven, no need for Jesus. If there was no free will, there […]
Want and Fear
What I think is strange is the relationship between want and fear. A fear is a realized negative future reality. A want is very similar. It’s realizing a positive future reality, and preferring it to […]
Dragon In My Garage
Preliminary Reading: We Are The Evidence Carl Sagan equated the existence of God to the existence of a dragon living in someone’s garage. Instead of having Carl Sagan or someone else try to scientifically validate […]
Justified True Belief
I read the other day that the common epistemological definition of knowledge is justified true belief. Let’s take a look at atheism through this definition. Atheism is a ‘lack of belief.’ Therefore if knowledge is […]
I don’t believe in Atheists
I want to see evidence that they exist. Everyone seems to know one, but there is simply no good reason to believe that they exist. Science has shown that the universe can operate just fine […]
Kids with Cancer
Here is one huge objection that you see of theism. That seemingly some kids die early, God must not exist. If God exists, he wouldn’t create kids with cancer. First off, we assume God exists. […]
Science is like religion
First off, I don’t think the two are mutually exclusive. What scientists need to remember is that the nature of their work is inductive. For example, all of the observed oranges are orange, so we […]