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		<title>Antony Flew&#8217;s New Book</title>
		<link>http://rationalperspective.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/antony-flews-new-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Antony Flew, famous English philosopher, has released a book entitled &#8220;There is a God&#8221; that charts his journey from atheism to theism. It reads quite a bit like a biography rather than a work of philosophy, but I was pleasantly surprised at the exposition of his former atheism (and, for that matter, the innovative atheistic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalperspective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1413600&amp;post=86&amp;subd=rationalperspective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doctor Logic on the Argument from Reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Paul Nelson and Michael Ruse &#8220;Undebate&#8221; Intelligent Design</title>
		<link>http://rationalperspective.wordpress.com/2007/09/22/paul-nelson-and-michael-ruse-undebate-intelligent-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nelson and Ruse will debate the issue of Intelligent Design. Well, kind of. Here is Nelson&#8217;s description of the upcoming event: Next month, on Thursday, October 4, Michael Ruse and I are going to have a sort of un-debate. Each of us will be asked to spell out what would change our minds about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalperspective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1413600&amp;post=83&amp;subd=rationalperspective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmic Fantasies by Numbers</title>
		<link>http://rationalperspective.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/cosmic-fantasies-by-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Beast Rabban Max Tegmark is in the British science magazine New Scientist this week (the week of the 15th of September), once again arguing for a multiverse. In the article ‘Reality by Numbers’ he argues that the universe is a mathematical object, like the dodecahedron of the Pythagoreans. An exploration of this possibility [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalperspective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1413600&amp;post=81&amp;subd=rationalperspective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Challenge to Theists?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Heraplem Christopher Hitchens has issued what he thinks is a serious challenge to theists: name a single moral action that theists can perform but that atheists can&#8217;t. But what, precisely, is the point behind this challenge? Are there really swarms of theistic philosophers out there meticulously tallying up all the possible kinds of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalperspective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1413600&amp;post=75&amp;subd=rationalperspective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secular Columnist in Historical Jesus Shock!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Beast Rabban Shock! Horror! Sensation! The British newstand magazine of the weird, The Fortean Times has published a piece supporting the historicity of Christ. In the October 2007 issue, the Fortean Times&#8217; resident classicist, Barry Baldwin attacks the latest attempt by Tom Harpur to disprove Christ&#8217;s existence as &#8216;as futile as his many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalperspective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1413600&amp;post=77&amp;subd=rationalperspective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vic Reppert Reformulates the AFR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here. Very interesting. I wonder, though, if one is able to reply that propositions supervene naturally on a certain state or set of relations (specifically in the brain). Hopefully we see more on this.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalperspective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1413600&amp;post=76&amp;subd=rationalperspective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Hart Hunts the Dennett</title>
		<link>http://rationalperspective.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/david-hart-hunts-the-dennett/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings fellow RPers and distinguished passersby. This is my first post here at Rational Perspectives, and I thought I would begin by doing something really easy and unoriginal&#8211;viz., posting a link to a really good paper. Here therefore is Orthodox philosopher and theologian, David Bentley Hart&#8217;s impressively vocabularied (dictionary.com awaits your humble approach), perhaps a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalperspective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1413600&amp;post=74&amp;subd=rationalperspective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Geivett and Tabash to Debate the Existence of God</title>
		<link>http://rationalperspective.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/geivett-and-tabash-to-debate-the-existence-of-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate takes place on September 19, @2:00 p.m. Eddie Tabash vs. Douglas Geivett: &#8220;Does God Exist?&#8221; Cypress College, Complex 216, Cypress, CA Douglas Geivett is an analytic philosopher and theologian;  Eddie Tabash, a lawyer.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalperspective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1413600&amp;post=73&amp;subd=rationalperspective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remains of the Second Temple Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Beast Rabban It appears that construction work fitting a pipeline to the al-Aqsa mosque on Temple Mount has uncovered the remains of part of the Second Temple. This is obviously a find of immense importance to Jews and Christians. Gaby Barkai, a senior Israeli archaeologist, has called for the construction work to halt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rationalperspective.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1413600&amp;post=72&amp;subd=rationalperspective&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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