"Quid cum Ruse Sit?"
"What Is with Ruse?"

Coyne has plenty of good answers to what Ruse says:

Michael Ruse: Heaven and miracles are perfectly consistent with science

I’m not a psychologist, so I won’t suggest the motivations for this, but none of them seem savory to me.  I could talk about “belief in belief,” or early religious belief that, ( Read more... )

"Non Dicis!"
"You Don't Say!"

Yeah:

A sophisticated theologian claims that religion can’t be falsified

And a good comment:

Gilkey makes a major error in his statement. Religion doesn’t “ask” any sort of question, it supplies a ready made answer: God did it.

Right.

"Argumentum ad Famem"
"The Argument from Hunger"

Augh, Coyne found some grade-A nonsense:

More theological criticism of atheists: we’re not despairing enough

But Robert Barron, a Catholic priest, thinks I should feel otherwise. Watch the video of this seemingly genial fellow and see how many things you can disagree with in just a few minutes:
I ( Read more... )

"Coyne Dixit"
"Coyne Said"

Nice:

Jerry Coyne On Justifying Science

We justify science rather than faith as a way of finding out stuff not on the basis of first principles, but on the basis of which method actually gives us reliable information about the universe. And by “reliable,” I mean, methods that help us make verified predictions that ( Read more... )

"Supernaturalis?"
"Supernatural?"

I find it amusing that Coyne's personal definition of "supernatural" has been reduced to "[not] obeying the laws of nature as we understand them," thereby making Heliocentrism, Evolution, and Relativity ex-supernatural phenomena.

Ironic, isn't it?

"Evidentia pro Deo?"
"Evidence for God?"

I just saw this:

Dawkins comes for the Archbishop, and can there be evidence for God?

Jerry Coyne, if you want to treat the god hypothesis as a scientific hypothesis, we need to come up with a scientific definition of god as well as falsifiable hypothesis for it ( Read more... )

"Res Plures de Scientismo"
"More Stuff about Scientism"

Yeah:

Guest post: BioLogos on scientism, part 3

Great responses! I also love this in the comments:

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"Aliae Viae Sciendi"
"Other Ways of Knowing"

Good response, as usual:

Brother Blackford on “other ways of knowing”

"Philosophia, Theologia sine Deo"
"Philosophy, Theology without God"

Interesting:

Can philosophy or religion alone establish facts?

But I love this comment:

I’m not even halfway through the comments in this thread, and I’ve realized that the fundamental problem isn’t so much that theology is godly philosophy, but that philosophy is godless ( Read more... )

"Miraculum"
"Miracle"

Nice:

A miracle!