It's easier to point fingers at the wrondoer than to sympathize with him. It's easier to draw the line between black and white and not look at the shades of gray it's easier to look at the one thing that's ahead of you i...

Gnostic Theist: One who believes there is a god which has a particular set of properties which they know about.   They are 100% certain this god exists, or at least very close to 100%, and they believe they can...

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Below is my post-debate assessment of Patrick Shawhan's arguments from the student debate at Skepticon II.  On our panel, I was assigned the task of meeting scientific arguments.  For this reason, I avoided ph...

Edlives here, and we want your thoughts and opinions about sports.  You got em?  We want them. We'll make this really simple: - message us a link to a post (on your site) about your sports opinion, and we'll put that post on this blog for people to discuss....

Intro: Patrick Shawhan was one of the theistic contributors to the student debate at Skepticon 2.  We've recently become facebook friends and he messaged me some follow up questions he said he'd love me to answer....

Intro: For those of you who don't wish to scour my lengthy review of Charlie Self's closing remarks on the pro debate, here's the video of my opening statement from the student debate.  I got great reviews from everyone and I'm amazed I nailed it so well....

I will eventually meld my entire assessment of the student debate into one post, but for now time allow me to only post in increments. Ben already has his analysis of the debate up.  You can read it here. In this...

The videos from the student debate are posted courtesy of Rob at Hambone Productions.  Good lord, I never knew my head was so abnormally large. Ultimately, I was upset with my performance.  I didn't keep my r...