A Facebook posting about this post on Atheism led me to the New Mysterianism (something I should have known about, but didn’t – but this is why the internet exists, thanks Damon).  Described as:
A philosophical position proposing that the hard problem of consciousness will never be explained; or at the least cannot be explained by [...]

Why the new atheism tends to get on my nerves.  A piece by Julian Sanchez called Agnosticism and the Varieties of Certainty counters the idea that atheism is really just agnosticism – i.e. it’s not a fundamentalist belief that God doesn’t exist, because that can’t be proven either.  His basic premise is that because God [...]

Recently on Daily Kos I got into a long discussion (argument) with an atheist about the possibility of God. Think it pretty well distills my point of view (as well as the point of view of the hardened skeptic) so I’m posting it here. The discussion began in a post about 2012 – [...]