tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41723514459660048802014-12-18T05:22:18.478ZHASSNERS Humanist Atheist Scientific Secularist Naturalistic Evolutionary Rationalist ScepticsHASSNERS - Humanist Atheist Scientific Secularist Naturalistic Evolutionary Rationalist ScepticsChris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.comBlogger1885125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-25552922457817559962014-12-16T09:54:00.002Z2014-12-16T09:54:28.964ZWhy Evolution is TrueChris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-23822538023827793802014-12-16T09:52:00.000Z2014-12-16T09:52:47.715ZThe Kalam Cosmological Fallacy: A Brief History of the Failures of IntuitionChris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-69709123535834550412014-12-04T15:22:00.001Z2014-12-04T15:22:06.332Z'Humanity Education Council' (HEC) cf 'Religious Education Council' source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/teachingsecularworldviews/permalink/684031945046627/
Allan Hayes
1 December at 07:34
Help get Humanism into GCSE and A Level RE - http://1drv.ms/1v83OQuRespond to consultation request/(Government proposals for GCSE would permit 75% of the time to be spent on one religion, and 25% on another religion).But what we really need is to replace RE Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-78816930468899222832014-12-04T11:32:00.000Z2014-12-04T11:32:52.092ZMoving Naturalism ForwardI'm a Naturalist - not a naturist!
I have two main philosophical worldviews: Naturalism & Humanism. (world view: "a particular philosophy of life or conception of the world*")
Naturalism is "the philosophical belief that everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted*"
(I think of atheism as a conviction rather than aChris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-48783190398230116392014-12-01T22:21:00.002Z2014-12-01T22:21:33.660ZPeter Atkins - On Being - The limitless powers of science - SBHA Conference 2011
Scientific Method - took 1000s of years to be discovered.
,,,Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-20524111722867271422014-11-13T05:54:00.001Z2014-11-13T05:54:49.740ZWhy science is NOT 'Just a Theory'Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-71788372581103256202014-10-31T22:15:00.002Z2014-11-01T23:03:27.932ZPeter Boghossian - Faith - An Epistemology (how people come to knowledge)
Peter Boghossian said (13m-14.30m video above) "The faithful are not well cognitively, they need our help. They've caught a virus of an unreliable way to know the world. An epistemological sickness. Believing things from faith causes people to misconstrue what is good for them, and what is good for others. If someone is ill, you are not upset with them. Therefore it is not about being annoyed, Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-10756694981972902014-10-31T22:13:00.001Z2014-10-31T22:13:08.635ZWhat Happened before the Big Bang? - Inflation with Alan Guth
From 1 minute to 2.30s minutes Alan Guth (June 2014) says: what existed before the big bang? Answer - Who knows?! We really have no idea what came before the big bang. That space and time came into existence at the big bang (ie appearance out of nothing) is a possibility but its something you should NOT bet on, because we don't have any way of knowing! In the picture of Eternal Inflation, our Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-3068405472490077942014-10-29T11:06:00.000Z2014-10-29T11:06:35.764ZHow do you justify the Scientific Method? It works!Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-10774896358261332002014-10-27T20:49:00.001Z2014-10-27T20:49:57.382ZAtheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty - Appeals to Faith
1m: 'You just have to have Faith'. What does it mean to have faith? Hebrews 11.1 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.'
2m: Faith: 'Person of faith' appears to have abandoned reason in favour of gullibility or incredulity.
3m: If unclear, ask for a definition of a phrase or word. Is the premise valid?
6m: Faith defined: Synonymous with belief. Where faithChris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-73797746486161664212014-09-03T03:36:00.001+01:002014-09-03T04:04:15.820+01:00Why does the Universe Exist? By Jim Holtsource: http://www.ted.com/talks/jim_holt_why_does_the_universe_exist?utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_content=button__2014-09-02#t-573726 and accompanying Kindle Book (£4) and TED blog.
Jim Holt talks March 2014. A grand tour of the answers to the question 'Why there is something rather than nothing'. My rambling notes follow!:-
Shopenhauer - you are mentallyChris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-68435938156791906042014-08-28T01:41:00.001+01:002014-08-28T01:41:51.481+01:00Andrew Copson (BHA) talks to Ignoranti prior to World Humanist Congresssource: http://www.ignoranti.org/2014/08/02/andrew-copson-chief-executive-british-humanist-association/
Andrew Copson talks about:-
Christian & Muslim Apologists cf Politicians
Formulaic answers
lack of extemporising
Justifications for a belief already held (not testing of hypothesis)
Polemics
Faith
Knowledge v Faith
'Faith is believing what you know ain't so' (Mark Twain)
Following the Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-17594241307456608632014-08-27T21:49:00.003+01:002014-08-27T23:37:20.084+01:00Peter Atkins talks post World Humanist Congress
Peter Atkins
source: http://www.ignoranti.org/2014/08/27/peter-atkins-professor-of-chemistry-oxford-university/ via
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Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-24851982409678202812014-07-26T06:17:00.001+01:002014-07-26T06:17:43.061+01:00The Quest for Understanding » IAI TV - Peter AtkinsThe Quest for Understanding » IAI TV
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crabsallover highlights, key points, comments / links.Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-41651882043727551512014-06-04T09:12:00.000+01:002014-06-04T22:46:53.892+01:00The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
Who Says Science has Nothing to Say about Morality?
Sam Harris has spent several years publicly criticising religion through his books 'The End of Faith' and 'Letter to a Christian Nation'.
Defenders of religion have generally just three counter arguments:-
A specific religion is true
Religion is a useful framework for morality
Atheism is corrosive of morality
You shouldn't belief Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-46052334376833182942014-03-02T23:20:00.001Z2014-03-02T23:20:33.731ZStephen Law: What is Humanism?Stephen Law: What is Humanism?Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-24400178468660603972014-02-27T17:09:00.001Z2014-02-27T17:14:27.390ZRobin Ince asks 'What is Sprirituality?'To me, spirituality is a bit of a weasel, slippery word having a multitude of meanings.
Robin Ince thinks so too.
source: http://robinince.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/sitting-in-the-dry-bar-of-the-spiritual-journey/Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-9112565917888440242014-01-11T03:35:00.000Z2014-01-11T03:35:56.630ZFirst meeting between Richard Dawkins and Deepak ChopraH/T John Davison on Dorset Humanists Facebook group.
Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-50167590566233661212014-01-09T13:53:00.002Z2014-01-09T13:53:58.853ZBristol Skeptics - Woo of the Week
Woo of the week
A monthly look at woo in the Bristol area which values alliteration above
chronological accuracy (obviously).
I'm indebted to my French friend again for bringing an excellent resource to
my attention. I am beginning to wonder about her as she seems to be a never
ending source of this stuff – maybe she's channelling Marie Antoinette or
perhapsChris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-21990880457476318842014-01-09T11:00:00.000Z2014-01-09T11:00:19.272ZTest of Faith from Faraday Institute for Science and Religion The "Test of Faith" website has accompanying dvd, book and teacher notes and Youtube channel. Test of Faith was developed by Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at Cambridge University.
The contributors to the book and dvd are suggesting that science cannot know all the answers to serious questions. There is something outside of science, something science will never discover - and that Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-72264431633838061972014-01-08T09:22:00.000Z2014-01-08T09:26:07.597ZGravitational Lensing - Spacewarps.org project
GRAVITATIONAL LENSING
Einstein's theory of gravity, General Relativity, made a remarkable prediction. Massive objects, such as stars, would bend the space around them such that passing light rays follow curved paths. Evidence for this revolutionary theory was first obtained by Arthur Eddington in 1919, when during a solar eclipse he observed that stars near the edge of the Sun appeared to be Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-40289780625841263072014-01-08T08:37:00.003Z2014-01-08T09:32:16.547ZYOU can Discover a NEW Galaxy from YOUR PC - Spacewarps.org
Stargazing Live: Brian Cox and Dara O Briain, Series 4, Episode 1.
Using gravitational lensing on Spacewarps.org YOU can see the curvature of spacetime by mass by the 300 billion galaxies that have been observed to date. YOUR task is to find galaxies (each have 100 billion stars to 1 Trillion stars) that have NOT yet been observed (because they are obscured by observed galaxies). The aim is Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-41486087697882147562013-12-24T22:58:00.001Z2013-12-24T22:58:52.927ZWhy is Consciousness so Mysterious? Robert Lawrence Kuhn - Facebook posts
Andrew Bindon
https://wwwwww.youtube.com/watch?v=NNaLFuJmeY4
Metaphysics and Reality - Hubert Dreyfus - Heidegger
www.youtube.com
How Does Metaphysics Reveal Reality?
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David Haith How refreshing for somebody to post something here which relates to the problem of reality.Of course theChris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-27707736367303736962013-12-22T06:35:00.000Z2014-11-01T10:36:43.886ZImagine No Religion 3: Peter Boghossian - Street Epistemology + Q&A with LAAG
Peter Boghossian (PB) talks about dialectical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectical interventions which are designed to separate Faith (the virus) from its host (the faithful person). The strategy for talking people out of their faith is called Street Epistemology. Rationality, reason and evidence should be used to determine what is good for people and their community, not Faith. In USA Chris Streethttps://plus.google.com/117335397188076165283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4172351445966004880.post-89140554973633524482013-12-17T20:03:00.002Z2013-12-17T20:03:51.985ZWhat is Skepticism?Interesting ideas about 'What is Skepticism?'
sources:
http://skeptoid.com/skeptic.php
http://davidwaldock.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/what-is-a-skeptic-and-am-i-one-part-1-defining-skepticism/
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