I suspect that many professional philosophers, including ones such as myself who have no religious beliefs at all, are slightly embarrassed, or even annoyed, by the voluble disputes between militant atheists and religious apologists.

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Falsification - And Other Reasons Girls Kick Your Butt At Chess

There is a good reason most Americans stink at chess - our unfailing optimism.

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Bejamin Libet conducted studies to demonstrate that neural states located in cortices of the brain trigger human actions. This raises the question, how can our actions be free if the corresponding brain states occur before our "free will" decides to engage the action?

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"Is atheism another fundamentalism? At the very least, I would say there are clear fundamentalist strains within what has been called the new atheism.

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