Ex Cathedra

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Phillips
I went looking for a quote for a reply to Ted Goas, who was kind enough to visit [...]

Coming up on Thursday.
Why not observe the National Day of Prayer? I know what that gets you: Madeline Kara Neumann

Second lesson from my upcoming book on how to be an effective Christian evangelist.
Not long ago I wrote here about why believers of the Christian variety who endlessly quote the bible to convert freethinkers and skeptics might want to take a little vacation and try something else. The inky electrons were [...]

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. - attributed to Richard Feynman (h/t to Leiter Reports)

But perhaps philosophy of science might come in a little handy for scientists and the rest of us when we’re trying to respond to believers a bit more [...]

A proposition is meaningful only if it is verifiable.
A proposition is verifiable only if it can be proved or disproved or can be deduced from other propositions which are verifiable.
Statements that are not verifiable are cognitively meaningless although they may possess emotive meaning. - Krus’s summary of Mach’s logical positivism
That’s kind of a neat site [...]

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What about the Slightly Ticked Off Agnostic Conspiracy? - - Nick Fung on Facebook