Paul Salamone (a buddy of mine and the dude behind the hip blog Foreignerd) posted an insightful comment in response to my blog post, The Portable Atheist: A Great Holiday Gift. Below is my response. My response went longer than I originally anticipated so I decided to make a separate blog post. Integral geeks, as [...]
I just finished watching the 15-part video of the D’Souza vs. Dennett debate held at Tufts University. All in all it was a good and entertaining debate. Nothing new with the arguments. But I still recommend watching it from beginning to end. Now here’s my take… Before watching the debate my bias was with Dennett. [...]
Recently, Theodore Dalrymple wrote an eloquoent critique of the New Atheists, What the New Atheists Don’t See. The main argument: “The curious thing about these books is that the authors often appear to think that they are saying something new and brave. They imagine themselves to be like the intrepid explorer Sir Richard Burton, who [...]