William Bragg, Photographer » atheist http://WilliamBragg.com/blog Professional photographer, Salem, Oregon Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:36:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Game show looks to convert atheists http://WilliamBragg.com/blog/2009/07/03/game-show-looks-to-convert-atheists/ http://WilliamBragg.com/blog/2009/07/03/game-show-looks-to-convert-atheists/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:45:40 +0000 Will http://WilliamBragg.com/blog/?p=1014

What happens when you put a Muslim imam , a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?

Game show looks to convert atheists

]]> http://WilliamBragg.com/blog/2009/07/03/game-show-looks-to-convert-atheists/feed/ 0 Thomas Aquinas would have loved genetics http://WilliamBragg.com/blog/2009/06/25/thomas-aquinas-would-have-loved-genetics/ http://WilliamBragg.com/blog/2009/06/25/thomas-aquinas-would-have-loved-genetics/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:12:54 +0000 Will http://WilliamBragg.com/blog/?p=1004 Many know that I grew up Catholic, and I’m quite familiar with Aquinas (always one of my favorites, though I wasn’t as big a fan for Aristotle). Great article from the Guardian:

In the five ways Aquinas was not trying to prove the existence of God at all, but was showing that an acceptance of Aristotle is no bar to belief in God. This is why he ends each argument not with "QED God" but "And this is what all men call God". Aquinas does not think God exists. He thinks he is existence.

And countering the common refrain I’ve heard most of my life about “But what came BEFORE the Big Bang”,

Aquinas would have had no problem with Hawking’s contention that the Big Bang didn’t need somebody to light its fuse but can be explained mathematically.

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