Comments on: Ep#58 – Jerry Coyne – Faith Vs. Fact http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/ Home of Stephen Knight and The #GSPodcast Sun, 20 Mar 2016 01:27:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 By: Stephen Knight http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/#comment-3638 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:55:38 +0000 http://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=2621#comment-3638 You’ve no intention in answering my questions or addressing my rebuttals. We’ll leave the conversation here

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By: Stephen Knight http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/#comment-3637 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:54:08 +0000 http://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=2621#comment-3637 How are religious beliefs ‘just statements’? Especially when religious people *behave* in *accordance to them*. Bizarre point. The very fact that a particular religion can be identified solely on the *behaviour* of its adherents demonstrates you’re wrong. If someone is talking about The Prophet Muhammad and says “Peace be upon him” right after – what are the odds that’s a completely random bit of behaviour?

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By: Brain Molecule Marketing http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/#comment-3636 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:52:57 +0000 http://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=2621#comment-3636 By blaming “religion”/magical statements for harmful behaviors Coyne/Harris/atheists block real problem-analysis and problem solving about harmful behaviors, and denies all the good brain science about how behavior is caused and mental illness. Coyne, for example, has banned brain science from his blog – except for the no free will research.

It is also dehumanizing to the people who do the harmful behaviors. The old idea that just getting all Muslims to “think right” is really dum.

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By: Brain Molecule Marketing http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/#comment-3635 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:48:59 +0000 http://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=2621#comment-3635 Look, the default of the human brain, and likely other animals since humans are not exceptional, is denial, avoidance and disassociation. Coyne, Harris and the atheist community show all of these when they make statements about religion and harmful behavior. The athetist dogma is that magical-religios beliefs, really just statements, cause harmful behavior. This is a predictive, scientific claim that needs peer-reviewed, medical, experimental evidence to be true. On the flip side, how can the Coyne/Harris/atheist belief-dogma that religious beliefs cause harmful behavior be disproven? Duh, this is not a real complicated matter.

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By: Stephen Knight http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/#comment-3634 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:39:10 +0000 http://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=2621#comment-3634 Censor what? Your comments are published, there to see. They go in a moderator queue (as with most blogs/websites) and I don’t live on the internet, nor am I The Flash.

Incidentally, you don’t appear to understand censorship. You have a right to say what you want. You don’t have a right to be heard however. This includes not having the right to have your comments published on someone else’s web space. Censorship would be if I came to *your* blog and removed your comments. I have published your comments however, making your hot-headed, paranoid accusations seem a little silly.

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By: Stephen Knight http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/#comment-3633 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:34:14 +0000 http://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=2621#comment-3633 Can you outline this ‘atheist dogma’ you’ve decided exists?

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By: Stephen Knight http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/#comment-3632 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 18:33:39 +0000 http://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=2621#comment-3632 There’s no data to suggest beliefs influence behaviour, is that what you’re saying? It seems to me it doesn’t matter whether they are ‘magical’ or otherwise. The belief is considered true by the believer.

I didn’t say I didn’t know the ‘no free will research’, I said I didn’t know what *you* meant, given you confused internal decision making with external causal influences. I note you’ve chosen not to address that point. I did a podcast on free will last month that covers this specific point – perhaps have a listen and learn something.

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By: Brain Molecule Marketing http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/#comment-3631 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:38:11 +0000 http://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=2621#comment-3631 Ah, so you are going to censor the comment. Predictable. The truth is always uncomfortable for ideologues.

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By: Dennis Keller http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/#comment-3630 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:35:42 +0000 http://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=2621#comment-3630 Just about everything he said.

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By: Brain Molecule Marketing http://www.gspellchecker.com/2015/05/ep58-jerry-coyne-faith-vs-fact/#comment-3629 Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:26:10 +0000 http://www.gspellchecker.com/?p=2621#comment-3629 Righto, Coyne/Harris and atheist dogma is nonsense with no scientific basis in fact.

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