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Richard Dawkins Has A New Book!

ccdguy wrote 1 month ago: Hi Folks, I recommend checking out “The Greatest Show on Earth – The Evidence for Evolut … more →

Tags: Books, Creating Cognitive Dissonance, Science in the News, Atheism, Biology, Dawkins, Diversity, Evolution, God

Beliefs and Facts Processed the SAME WAY by our Brains. Read that again if you need to...2 comments

ccdguy wrote 2 months ago: http://www.newsweek.com/id/216551 Check out the link.  Good old Sammy Boy strikes again. CCD, Ben … more →

Tags: Creating Cognitive Dissonance, How To Reason, Religion in the news, Science in the News, agnostic, Atheism, atheist, Belief, believers

An Interesting Look at Evolution Courtesy of Carl Sagan3 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: CCD, Ben … more →

Tags: People, Evolution, Carl Sagan

Sam Harris: Faith and Reason in the Modern World27 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: As many of you know, Sam Harris is one of my favorite defenders of Reason. Sam is one of the many pe … more →

Tags: How To Reason, People, agnostic, Reason, Dogma, God, Love, Truth, Sam Harris

The Opposite of Pascal's Wager? If you could live forever, would you? - A Guest Post by Thor Odhner14 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: Hi CCDers. I thought I’d write a quick and dirty guest post on a little thought experiment I f … more →

Tags: People, Guest Posts, God, Science, Biology, History, Singularity, Pascal, eternal life

Not So Blind Watchmaker?1 comment

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: The research in this ScienceDaily article was funded by The National Science Foundation. According t … more →

Tags: Science in the News, Debates, Science, Evolution, Discovery, intelligent design

Is Religion Child Abuse?31 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: As I watched this video, I was struck by the fact that I have never seen a child make a speech like … more →

Tags: Creating Cognitive Dissonance, Science in the News, Christian, atheist, Dogma, God, Science, Love, Truth

Keith Olbermann on Prop 8

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: I especially liked his reference to cognitive dissonance, around the 4:45 mark. Enjoy, Ben … more →

Tags: People, doctrine, Dogma, God, Government, happiness, Hate, HOPE, Law

Deifinitions - Guest Post by Justin 19 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: Refer to the Google searches post from below. I think we should specify what traits our numbers appl … more →

Tags: Creating Cognitive Dissonance, Debates, Guest Posts, How To Reason, agnostic, Atheism, atheist, brain, Certainty

CCD Poll #1 - The Spectrum of Belief48 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: Richard Dawkins proposed 7 milestones on the spectrum of belief. Which one describes you best? 1. St … more →

Tags: Survey questions, agnostic, Assumptions, atheist, de facto atheist, God, impartial, Probability, theist

A Review of Christoph Cardinal Schonborn's Templeton Response29 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: As promised, I am going to review many of the answers provided by the Templeton Foundation experts. … more →

Tags: Debates, People, atheist, bad science, brain, Catholic, church, Cognitive Science, Consciousness

God is on Google11 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: On October 16th, I was inspired by a brilliant friend of mine to go onto Google and look at the sear … more →

Tags: Creating Cognitive Dissonance, Atheism, God, Jesus, Reason, Religion

NEW VIDEOS!!

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: Hello Everyone, At the bottom of the right sidebar, there are 5 videos available. These videos will … more →

Tags: People, Religion in the news, Science in the News, Atheism, Debate, Science, Thinking

Does Science make belief in God obsolete?61 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for research on what scientists and … more →

Tags: Creating Cognitive Dissonance, Debates, People, Religion in the news, Science in the News, agnostic, Reason, atheist, doctrine

THANK GOODNESS! - Video of Dan Dennett's Paper about Gratitude2 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: Recently, a person I love very much had to go under the knife for heart surgery (the surgery was suc … more →

Tags: People, atheist, Faith & Belief, God, Good, honesty, I Don't Know!, Love, Maybe I'm wrong.

Guest Post - "Food For Thought" - by Derek Hyatt11 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: Hello CCD’ers, Ok, here is something that I just thought might be interesting and thought-prov … more →

Tags: People, Guest Posts, Self, natural selection, Evolution, feelings, instinct, Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

Sam Harris on Atheism Myths6 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: Sam Harris wrote a column for the LA Times in 2006 listing 10 Myths & 10 Truths about Atheism. T … more →

Tags: Science in the News, People, How To Reason, Atheism, atheist, Dogma, Meaning, dogmatic, atheists

One of My Favorite Quotes5 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago: This is a quote that I’ve promoted on this site before, and I think it’s worth revisitin … more →

Tags: People, How To Reason, Reason, reality, Love, Sam Harris, change, bliss, Allah

Guest Post - "My Subjective Experiences Can't Disprove Yours, But, If You'll Allow, They May Help You Reconsider Some of Your Assumptions" - By Thor Odhner20 comments

ccdguy wrote 1 year ago:   There has been so much great discussion lately about the reasons some people choose (or feel compe … more →

Tags: Guest Posts, Religion, God, Meaning, logic, Perspective, Subjective, Objective, Assumptions


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