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As some of you may have seen, one of Lisa’s posts and one of mine have been nominated for inclusion into The Young Australian Skeptics Blog Anthology. I’d like to congratulate my fellow nominee, and say I’m very happy the two of us got noticed. I’ve been a writer for a while, but I’ve never [...] Photo from NASA Yes ladies and gentleman, it’s that that we all love, time for Jake to dazzle you all with an anecdote where something uncomfortable happens to me and I do my best to twist it into something more universal about all us skeptics in general. Admit it, you’re excited. There has been discussion in recent months about the similarities and dissimilarities of atheism and skepticism [1, 2, 3]. Some argued that skepticism and atheism are the same thing, others that they are two very different philosophies. This article in no way claims to be a conclusion to that discussion, but aims, perhaps, to explore [...] I’d like to make a few comments on Jake Dickerman’s piece about Michael De Dora’s recent talk concerning the relationship between skepticism and atheism. (A fuller version of my thinking on this topic can be found at Rationally Speaking). Enrapt audience at SkeptiCamp2009 (photo by Mitch Lampert) Editor’s note: this is a rebuttal to The Quixotic Man, about De Dora’s talk, “Skepticism Includes Atheism (So Deal With It),” at SkeptiCamp NYC 2009. TQM’s post can be found here. Jacob, it was nice meeting you at SkeptiCamp NYC 2009, and thanks for inviting me to [...] Michael De Dora speaks about atheism and skepticism at Skepticamp NYC 2009. [You can read Michael De Dora's response to this post here, and an additonal commentary by Massimo Pigliucci here.] A disclaimer. It is Sunday Night. I have just returned home from Skepticamp NYC. It’s been a long day, I may not be thinking my best, [...] Instead of continuing my thorough examination of the data from Gotham Skeptic’s first survey, I’d like to respond to comments the instrument has received. In particular, concerning the likert type item “Skepticism is the same as Atheism” When the survey was first published to the blog, a few comments emerged stating that the instrument was [...] Today, many New Yorkers will notice the new ads that have gone up in 12 of the city’s subway stations. The ads are promoting BigAppleCoR.org, the official website of the Big Apple Coalition of Reason, an umbrella group bringing together numerous local secular and humanist organizations including the Center For Inquiry | New York City, [...] From Flickr user globalgreenusa Maher or no Maher? This was a big question on many attendees’ minds during the Atheist Alliance International (AAI) Convention. Ever since it was announced that Bill Maher would be this years’ recipient of the Richard Dawkins Award, named for the evolutionary biologist and world’s most famous atheist, there’s been a [...] Atheist Bus Campaign creator Ariane Sherine and Richard Dawkins at its launch in London I “came out” as an atheist a few years ago, after years of shilly-shallying. The basic Protestantism of my upbringing yielded, as a teenager, to an orthodox but rather devout kind of new-age pantheism; this drifted imperceptibly into a “spiritual but not [...] |
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