Believers are confused
I've spent plenty of time in this blog going over various philosophical arguments for the existence of a god or gods, as well as talking about the historical and logical problems of religion. Quite honestly I feel like everything that needs to be said, I've said. I'm not going to devote yet another post to talking about William Lane Craig's idiotic Kalam argument, or arguing that the Bible is a lousy historical document. At this point, curious readers can just browse the archives. It's been done to death. I say this because while that kind of stuff can be rehashed ad nauseum , I think there's another way of looking at religion to demonstrate that it's false –and that is simply to look at what theists actually believe, and how they rationalize it. Over at Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution Is True blog, a guest poster has rigorously dissected a Pew survey of American evangelicals. Being an evolutionary biologist, Jerry Coyne seemed most interested in the s