on a guest post on pharyngula'it sometimes surprises me, although it shouldn't, how religious devotees feel the need to regularly reinforce their own convictions in groups of like-minded individuals. i suppose this is the purpose of regular sunday church services, for example, to reinforce the community of belief in between the rest of the week when the real world may show no evidence of god, goodness, fairness, or purpose.
nevertheless i was not prepared for the self-congratulatory hype that i have seen spouted on the web, and have received in emails, including a typically disingenuous email from wiliam lane craig to his followers regarding a debate i had with him in north carolina last week. while carrying out the debate in the first place was something that broke my normal rules--as i said during the debate, i far prefer civil conversation and discourse as a way of illuminating knowledge and reality--i will break another rule and write this blog-like note on my own perspectives, in the hope that it may circulate and counter some of the nonsense that has propagated in the fundamentalist and religious blogs of late. perhaps craig will post this on his blog and send it out as well.'read on...
i wish people would quit debating these crackpots.
you can watch the debate
here.
