Monthly Archives: August 2007

I’m Ready For My Vacation…

Now that I’ve gone a full week at work since my one-week vacation…. I’m ready for my next vacation! But that’s just because we’ve been doing testing and [..]

Personal

What Logic Requires Us To Believe About The Existence of God–Part 3

As was mentioned previously, philosophers make a distinction between “being” and “becoming” as characterized by the distinction in the statements “What is, is” and “What is, is changing.” [..]

Atheism, Philosophy, Theology

The Dark Night of the Soul

Anonymous on this post asks: Is it possible that a true Christian can sometimes have the “dark night,” where God doesn’t seem real to him or near to [..]

Personal, Roman Catholicism, Theology , , , , , , , ,

666

Today, I passed 666 miles on my bike. I’m now at 668.7 to be exact. But even before I got to the “Beast Mile” I had some misfortune. [..]

Personal

Hmmm….

I used to think that bad education was just an American phenomenon. Then I saw this: 58% of French people are pretty dumb. (Note: link is now broken–ed.) [..]

Penseés

What Logic Requires Us To Believe About The Existence of God–Part 2

Existence The title of this series is What Logic Requires Us To Believe About The Existence of God. In our first post, we defined what we meant by [..]

Atheism, Math and Logic, Philosophy, Theology , ,

This Is Because Christian Fundamentalists Don’t Detonate

I just saw this post: Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won’t Run ‘Opus’ Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam. This comes a week after they did publish an “Opus” cartoon mocking [..]

Islam, Politics , ,

Return to Work

Well, my vacation is now over. *sigh* A week just isn’t long enough. At least now I can complain to Travis in person rather than via the blog….

Personal

What Logic Requires Us To Believe About The Existence of God–Part 1

Since one of my tactics when defending the existence of God has been to look at what accepting logic requires us to believe (most recently found in my [..]

Atheism, Math and Logic, Philosophy, Theology , ,

Accidentally Revealing Too Much…

Hil takes flak for mixing politics & terror. In this article, we read John Edwards saying that a presidential candidate should “focus on what’s good for America, not [..]

Liberalism, Politics ,