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This page on Wikipedia claims rather surprisingly that: This list comprises laureates of the Nobel Prize who self-identified as atheist, agnostic, freethinker or otherwise nonreligious at some point in their lives.[2] Many of these laureates were identified with a religion earlier in life. By one estimate, between 1901-2000 about 10.5% of all laureates, and 35%…
Continue ReadingAmitai Shenhav, David G. Rand, and Joshua D. Greene – Divine Intuition Cognitive Style Influences Belief in God A very interesting study. Be sure to also check out Greene’s website wich has a lot of useful material. Also, thanks to Gene Expression for letting me no about this study. Edited to add Here is the…
Continue ReadingI red these today and needed an easy way to share them. Enjoy. Christopher Eppig, Corey L. Fincher and Randy Thornhill – Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability Christopher Hassall, Thomas N. Sherratt – Statistical inference and spatial patterns in correlates of IQ Donald I. Templer, Hiroko Arikawa – Temperature, skin color,…
Continue Reading————– Introduction In this essay I will explore the two major competing nomenclatures concerned with the definition of atheism, theism and agnosticism. Then I will argue that the new nomenclature is to be preferred. Then I discuss various issues with atheism/theism and agnosticism. After that I reveal a questionnaire that one can use to…
Continue ReadingJeg deltager i en formel debat på FRDB. URL: http://www.freeratio.org/showthread.php?t=259224 Her er min modstanders første indlæg og mit svar: Wiploc’s first post The Logical Problem of Evil: If god exists, why is there evil? Doesn’t the existence of evil prove that god does not exist? The answer is yes. If evil exists, the tri-omni god…
Continue ReadingAn agnostic opening post and my rebuttal. The debate can be found here. Opening post: “I was a Christian only as a young teenager. Eventually I left the faith, but since that time the issues of religion have always been of importance to me. I became increasingly interested in comparative religious studies, and in philosophy,…
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