Notebook
Working notes. One claim at a time, with the reasoning left in.
The Same Break in the Same Place
The doctrine needs humans to have been made apart from every other animal. That is a claim about ancestry, and the human genome carries a broken gene that answers it.
The Societies That Were Supposed to Fail
A society that loses its religion falls apart. That is a claim about how the world works, and the least religious countries on earth are where it gets checked.
The Effect Was in the Method
Intercessory prayer is one of the few religious claims that can be put in a trial. It has been, repeatedly, and the better the trial got the smaller the result became.
The Key Is Not in the Book
Any scripture of real length holds passages that cannot all be read the same way. Sorting them takes a rule, and the rule is not printed anywhere in it.
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.