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BigFatMan1951

Science Wins! Creationism Loses! We have the fo...

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1 year ago

Psychology of Belief Part 8: Need for Closure

Have you ever wondered why people are so prone to "God of the Gaps" thinking?

Here's how it works:

Religious belief is highly correlated with nee...

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Psychology of Belief, Part 7: Projection

Have you ever wondered why creationist Christians love to call atheism and evolution "faith-based religions?" Well, as it turns out, Sigmund Freud...

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Psychology of Belief, Part 6: Hallucinations

Hearing voices: It's not just for schizophrenics any more!

Hallucination is a relatively common phenomenon. Virtually all of us will, at one poi...

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1 year ago

Psychology of Belief, Part 5: Compliance Techniques

Which is more likely? That missionaries generate converts through the power of holy inspiration? Or that missionaries are really clever marketers...

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Psychology of Belief, Part 4: Misinformation Effect

In this episode, we learn why personal testimony is universally regarded as the weakest form of evidence. Yet despite this fact, personal testimon...

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Psychology of Belief, Part 3: Confirmation Bias

Presentation of the principles of confirmation bias and belief perseverance. The natural human tendency is to seek out only the evidence that supp...

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Ah yes! Good ol' Ray Comfort, The Banana Man! He should be in the nut house! Hell, why not? We already have Kent Hovind, another Funny-mentalist Christard doing time in prison for tax evasion and fraud, so we need to put another one in the loony bin! Jerry Falwell has bought the farms so he's six...

1 year ago

Psychology of Belief, Part 2: Insufficient Justification

In the previous video, we learned how peer pressure leads to public conformity. Now we shall see how public conformity can be turned into genuine ...

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Psychology of Belief, Part 1: Informational Influence

How can 2 billion believers all be wrong? Simple. The more believers there are, the more efficiently they generate more believers.

Music: Celes...

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1 year ago

Why we do not torture prisoners.

Why America does not (or at least should not) torture.

Abuse of prisoners leads to a bad reputation. Bad reputation leads to enemies choosing to ...

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1 year ago

Me Versus God, Part VI: God Debunked

Let's just cut to the chase, shall we?

For the same reasons we can assert the non-existence of Santa Claus, we can assert the non-existence of God...

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1 year ago

6 - Observers and Addictions

To read along go to: http://imaginingthetenthdim...

Other links from this entry:

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1 year ago

The Preacher and the Skeptic

Something I put together in tribute to a Casual Entropy song.

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1 year ago

Area 51 Employee Edgar Fouche Part 3 of ?

Talk with Special Guest Edgar Fouche on the AlienScientist Forums: http://www.alienscientist.c......

1 year ago

Me VS God, Part V: Why We Believe

This video explains the origins of many religious beliefs, and why those origins are not trustworthy avenues to truth.

Human cognitive bias is wel...

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Me Versus God, Part IV: Morality Debunked

The idea of "moral law" coming from God is nonsense. The highest ideal in moral behavior is simply the pursuit of one's own self-interest. The on...

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Me VS God, Part III: Prayer Debunked

A look at the power of prayer and why people believe so strongly in it.

Prayer does not do anything externally tangible, and a few casual experime...

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1 year ago

Cognitive Dissonance with Philip Zimbardo

Taken from the PBS documentary "Discovering Psychology" (1990). Since it is a PBS program, I am assuming that this is public domain.

Think back...

1 year ago

Me VS God Part II: God's Image Debunked

A quick debunking of the substantive interpretation of "God's Image."

There is a natural human psychological bias known as the "false consensus ...

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1 year ago

Noah's Flood debunked (Part 2)

This is the second part of the Noah's Flood debunk. I'm only showing two aspects of this myth which blow it out of the water (pardon the pun) -- se...

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1 year ago

Noah's Flood - debunked (Part 1)

This has nothing to do with questions about where all the water came from, where it went, and how all those animals got into the ark. It's about th...

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1 year ago

Creationist Junk Debunked -- #2

This is the second video in my series debunking creationist junk. It will look at some of the nominees for the coveted Golden Crocoduck, awarded fo...

1 year ago

Creationist Junk Debunked #1 - Introduction

A look at some of the most famous urban myths spread by creationists, and the fundamentalists who peddle them. This video is the first of a series ...

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1 year ago

Top 25 Creationist Fallacies

The Extant Dodos explain the meaning of the top 25 most common logical fallacies used by creationist speakers with examples from the most popular c...

1 year ago

Vegan Video

Dan Piraro from www.bizarro.com masterfully made this really awesome video. It's a talking pig that explains why eating meat is bad for you.

BigFatMan1951 BigFatMan1951 commented:

We are neither herbivores or pure carnivores. We are omnivores, meaning that we are designed to eat BOTH meat and vegetables. We started out as HUNTERS AND GATHERERS. During times of drought, or during the winter, or when fruit, roots, and berries were out of season, our ancestors had to hunt for...

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