Notebook
Working notes. One claim at a time, with the reasoning left in.
The Map Predicts the Creed
Nothing about a person forecasts their religion as reliably as the coordinates of their birth. That is not a claim about any doctrine. It is a measurable fact about how the doctrine was acquired.
The Gaps Only Move One Way
Every unexplained thing has been offered as evidence of a designer. The list of them has been shrinking for four centuries, and it has never once grown back.
Older Than the Flood
The flood account requires every land surface on earth to be under water for months. A tree standing in California right now was already old on that date, and its ring record contains no drowned year.
One Question at a Time
Doctrine is presented as a package: accept the whole, or reject the whole. The package deal is itself a claim, and it happens to be a fallacy.
Antitheist.
The word carries a caricature that was built on purpose. Here is what it actually denotes, and what this site does with it.
Doubt Is the Honest Starting Point
Certainty that refuses testing is not a strong epistemic position. It is a claim that has been moved out of reach of the only thing that could correct it.