Young Earther Denies the Antecedent – Fallacy Exposed
Arguments for Young Earth Creationism tend to be riddled with fallacies – in this case, the fallacy being a formal fallacy known as Denying the Antecedent, as I explain in this video.
Category: Philosophy Thought Pieces
Moses vs. Pharaoh
My latest YouTube video comically examines one of the messed-up things in the Biblical myth of Moses – – specifically how God seems to have been playing both sides of the conflict by promising not to soften, but to harden Read more
Am I too harsh in my criticism of religion?
My latest YouTube video is a response to allegations that I am being overly aggressive in my criticism of religion. Watch this video on it’s own YouTube page The episode of Paulogia from which the information about the host’s background Read more
The Benefits of Admitting When You Don’t Know
A web-site called Uplift just featured an article titled The Benefits of Admitting When You Don’t Know.This article extols the virtue of intellectual humility, which is the willingness to admit (whether to yourself or others) any shortcomings or limitations to Read more
Theism more positive than Atheism?!?!?
If you ask why atheists chose to believe in the less positive of two possible conclusions, you are not only ignoring the fact that how positive a conclusion has is totally irrelevant in discerning reality, but are also making the Read more
Denial and Panic – How my Great Grandfather Foresaw the Holocaust
Very few Jews in Germany between the two World Wars saw the Holocaust coming. My great grandfather, however, foresaw it with grizzly detail. No – this wasn’t any Gift of Prophecy, and it wasn’t Extrasensory Perception. Rather, it was that Read more
Onion Layers and Stoicism
Loose ends in Stoic philosophy can be resolved by visualizing your locus of control as layers of an onion. Click here to see this video’s YouTube page.
Jewish identity does NOT have to be religious
In my most recent vlog episode, I explain why and how Jewish identity does not necessarily have to be about religion. Watch Episode 2 of the Virtual Stoa vlog
Problems with the Ontological Argument
I launch a new YouTube channel by explaining how the Ontological Argument for God’s existence is flawed because it hinges on the fallacy of equivocation. You can see the video by clicking here. In this video here featured, I explain Read more
Return to YouTube
Realizing that vlogging has always where I felt most at home, I have decided to revive my YouTube channel and this time integrate it with this blog. You can see the video here. My return video on YouTube