Of Atheists and Aliens

A lot of atheists believe in aliens. At least, Dean Smith’s post on the blog Open The Word seems to claim so. Initially I doubted the claim and so I went on a search of reasons not to doubt the claim. A sort of optimistic Descartes-ian fact-finding mission. (I actually gave up on this endeavour…

Letting Go of the Crutch: Probability and physics are on the atheists’ side

A few days ago I was talking to a blogger called Physics and Whiskey. He wrote two posts, one called The atheist’s crutch: Misusing probability and another called The atheist’s other crutch: Breaking the laws of physics. In these posts he makes two clear arguments. In the first he argues that to rebut certain parts of…

Turning Over a Less Argumentative Leaf

I am changing a perspective in my life. It is something I am consciously working on instead of having just woken up this morning with a brand new brain. With that in mind, its timing makes it look like a New Year’s resolution, but it’s not. I have a terrible habit of arguing with people,…

Aliens Coming to Earth

Here’s a question: could aliens come to earth and kidnap humans with the intent of sticking non-descript metal things up their butts? (Last time I put this post up a commenter asked what else the aliens might want to look at, other than our butts. The commenter basically undid my entire post by asking that question;…