The fallacy of atheism
Atheism is getting a good press these days, but under false pretenses. Remember the Monty Python skit where a bishop and an atheist wrestled to decide "Whether God exists?" The decision was: "God exists, by two falls to one submission." That's funny because - as the Pythons' Oxbridge students knew - such "solid knock-down arguments" do not apply to this question. Ever since Aristotle we have known that there ...