"There are some apologists who want us to believe that logic is magic. What is a materialist atheist? It's someone who believes tha...

Humanity has discovered and developed logical syllogisms as part of deductive proofs of reality. The results are certainly valid IF (and, it...

Let's put Mathematics and Logic in proper relationship to Science: " Formal science  is a branch of science  studying  formal lan...

Austin Cline has posted a short essay defining deductive and inductive reasoning, with support for the superiority of inductive reasoning...

"The slippery slope argument is popular, but I reject it. The definition of marriage  does change; that’s a simple fact of history. Ins...

There is no evidence for any god, much less the Christian variety of such. All apologetics are unsupported arguments from ignorance, or t...

The main problem with this philosophical argument (inference to the best explanation) is that, at best, it leads to a testable hypothesis. ...

I have state many times that all arguments for a god are the logical fallacy of argument from ignorance, or the "God of the Gaps" ...

Besides using the term "theory" erroneously (presently, at best it is an untestable speculation), I consider it pre-science. htt...

"Bayesian analysis is an important concept for any scientist and skeptic to understand. It is extremely practical and is already used ...

It's a good start.

"So the main issue here may not be mindless obedience so much as the willingness to assume authority figures—that is to say, people we ...

People like WLC are intelligent and educated, but just don't understand science.  Unfortunately, he is like the vast majority of humanit...

"Science giving us counter-intuitive results, results that we’d never arrive at using our limited experience and logic alone, is one of...

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