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Comment on Barrett’s Why Would Anyone Believe in God? The first two chapters by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:40:00 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll have to look into it.

Comment on Barrett’s Why Would Anyone Believe in God? The first two chapters by A. Lewis

A. Lewis — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:29:02 +0000

I thought Barrett’s book was of mixed value as well. I think Todd Tremlin’s Minds and Gods is probably the best intro book on the topic that I’ve come across.

Comment on Anschluss anniversary by Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:15:03 +0000

wait umm.. im in 7th grade, and ive seen much worse photos…. but are those just cinder blocks in the top picture? and body parts in the bottom? just making sure.

Comment on Off to Old Blighty again tomorrow by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:56:38 +0000

Thanks for coming on the day. It was a lot of fun for me. As you saw, I do not focus on the question of the units of cultural evolution. What implications for such a concept my talk has I leave up to you.

Comment on Naturalist accounts of religion and evidence for God’s existence by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:54:40 +0000

Hardly a hostile audience. This was a group of psychologists and philosophers at a secular university in a secular state. There was no question of courage in that context; indeed, I was surprised that the comment so much as raised an eyebrow. I think I would find it very difficult to say the same thing in a more religious context, partly simply due to not wishing to be rude to the hosts. Mind you, I can not imagine that I would go so far as to actually espouse an accommodationalist position I do not believe in.

Comment on Naturalist accounts of religion and evidence for God’s existence by James Sweet

James Sweet — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:19:07 +0000

I applaud you for your courage to have put it so bluntly to a possibly hostile audience. I am sure the vast majority of people in your position would have invoked NOMA in order to avoid answering the question directly.

Comment on Off to Old Blighty again tomorrow by Andrew Atkinson

Andrew Atkinson — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:46:55 +0000

Well I hope your argument makes it past Samir especially – he has none of it from me! (But that might be just me.) I’ll be interested to see if you can make the meme concept (Boyer’s Toolkit 1) fit in with the levels of selection question and avoid the common criticisms of memetic theory.

Either way – this should prove to be an exciting talk, as it seems clear that you intend to endorse a collaborative approach.

Comment on The return of the Filipino mystery by Konrad Talmont-Kaminski

Konrad Talmont-Kaminski — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:15:31 +0000

So pleased to hear that Sandra R. loves my blog. A bit disappointed that she also loves about 1,500 other blogs on which she has placed the exact same comment. Hope she does not mind that I cut out the URL she had her comment linking to.

Comment on The return of the Filipino mystery by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:25:51 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment on Atheism as the out-group by Tom Rees

Tom Rees — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:19:16 +0000

Hi Konrad. I can’t disagree with what you say, but I guess it is a question of relative importance, rather than absolutes – and not too much evidence either way.

I found the thesis trawling the web quite a while back. I think I was trying to find studies on atheists and happiness, when this one popped up!