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Evidence of Openness

Over at Debunking Christianity, John Loftus has declared that religious people are closed-minded, and therefore they cannot accept the evidence that would otherwise overturn their faith:
"There are two problems we face in order to cultivate the intellectual virtue of open-mindedness. The first is to learn what constitutes evidence, since most people are unreasonably persuaded because of anecdotal evidence, or fallacious arguments substituting for the lack of evidence, or even peer-pressure or the accidents of birth into a particular family or a different culture. The second is to learn to avoid confirmation bias as much as possible, which Michael Shermer calls "the mother of all biases." [In The Believing Brain, p. 259].Once we learn about these problems and recognize them as the serious ones they really are, and that they stand in the way of a clear-headed investigation of the truth, we can proceed to be honest investigators of the truth. We would know what kind of evid…

Part 2 true christian Supernatural on Metacrock's blog

Are all Cosmologists Atheists? Answering Sean Carroll (1)


Let's start with his conclusion:


what is the real concept of the supernatural?

On Metacrock's blog today: True Christian concept of the supernatural
We are unable to bring you a real post today but I have a good one on my blog.


Jesus Project part 2:Orwell Hits the fan : Or What PRICE credulity?

Yesterday I posted a piece about the atheist propaganda machine know as Center for Inquiry, and particular their attempt to create a Jesus project to dispute the existence of Jesus in history. The  plug was pulled on the project by R.l Joseph Hoffmann who started the project. His reason was that the Jesus mythers were taking over and using it as a platform for their propaganda rather than doing real scholarly work. They only went two of their five years. Yet they have been so totally effective the Jesus myth thing has just exploded. It's everywhere where atheist talk. There are some instructive lessons in looking at the Jesus Project. It's a lesson in Propaganda.

from the website of the project, one would think it's still going. The thing was canceled in 2011 and yet not a  hint on the website that it is not still going.


Jesus Project saga part 1


It's five year mission, to seek out new lies and new propaganda slogans, to boldly go where no historians have gone before...

 Years ago, way back in 2009 I did a post on Atheistwatch about the Jesus project, not seminar but project. They really did have a five year mission. Last week I did a post on the parent organization, the centerpiece of atheist propaganda machine, the center for inquiry (they do skeptical inquiry magazine). What came of that Jesus project? It's five years  were up in 2013. I said that the time: "Cracking The Jesus Myth Phony Scholarship Code." Richard Carrier has a couple of articles on his blog about a big conference for the Jesus Project

Darwinism, Naturalism and Falsification

Well, PZ Myers has yet again expended his time and energy, not on conducting scientific research, or educating his students, but instead trashing anyone – intelligent design proponents especially – with the temerity to doubt his own blinkered metaphysical interpretation of natural history. Intelligent design theorists, he says this time around, are "flailing about trying to emphasize their pretense of scholarliness," whose ideas "haven't worked so well" and whose arguments "fall flat." So if intelligent design proponents are really just a bunch of dolts whose arguments are hopelessly ineffectual, why does Myers not move on to more important things and simply let their ideas die a natural death? Why devote endless hours combating them, as if they represented a genuine threat?
That's just it. He can't afford to ignore intelligent design, because with no one like him standing in the way some observers might actually (and often do in fact) find it…

Jeff Lowder Fine Tuning Bait and Switch


Lowdwer's syllogism of the argument:



Fine-Tuning Denialism and the Demise of Science



Scientists nowadays for the most part agree that the evidence fo…