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On the Death of God

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5 You really should hear him tell it. The presentation he gave at the second session of the “Beyond Belief” conference was excellent and enlightening. I highly recommend it.

http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/beyond-belief-science-religion-reason-and-survival/session-2-4

6 Sam Harris says this during the course of a great speech he gave at the 2005 “Idea City” conference in Canada:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3YOIImOoYM

7 Richard Carrier discusses why just this would seem to be the more likely option in his article “The End of Pascal’s Wager: Only Nontheists Go to Heaven.”

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/heaven.html

8 Sam Harris discusses Bertrand Russell’s excellent teapot analogy at the “Beyond Belief” conference. In addition, here are links from Paul Tobin’s website reviewing:

Irreducible Complexity:

http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/behe.html

Fine-tuning:

http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/finetuned.html

And a review of God "proofs" in general:

http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/god.html

And this site on evolution is absolutely excellent. Be sure to check out the mainstream scientific replies to common creationist arguments:

http://www.talkorigins.org


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