Is Atheism a Delusion?

This is an expansion of my blog: Scientists Discover that Atheists Might Not Exist


 InspiringPhilosophy has two YouTube videos on whether "Is Atheism a Delusion?" with additional links in their descriptions. In my earlier blog I didn't include the additional links. I'll include most of them here along with the original videos.

Is Atheism a Delusion?

https://youtu.be/_Ii-bsrHB0o

Is Atheism a Delusion? (Follow up)

https://youtu.be/xnBTJDje5xk

 Here are some of the additional links:
[If any of the links end up dead, try using the "WayBackMachine" feature at Internet Archive to view the link]

Why God Won't Go Away - Andrew Newberg and Eugene D'Aquili

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048721X09001201

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(12)00266-5

Born Believers - Justin L. Barrett

https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/InstituteofCognitionCulture/FileUploadPage/Filetoupload,90244,en.pdf

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/religion-and-morality-an-anthropological-comment/F18EFA420571D2DE98AC51E06867EF1A

https://www.nature.com/articles/http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.125.9479&rep=rep1&type=pdf4551038a

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10508619.2013.771991?journalCode=hjpr20

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.125.9479&rep=rep1&type=pdf

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(12)00267-7

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027714001358

https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/images/staff/justin_barrett/Barrett%20&%20Richert%202003.pdf

https://cogdevlab.yale.edu/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048721X09001201


 
 See also this lecture by Dr. Clark:

 Dr Kelly Clark - Is Atheism 'Normal'? Reflections from the Cognitive Science of Religion 

https://youtu.be/xgT8LHyKIak

A Study Shows That Atheists Tend To Not Trust Other Atheists

Atheists tend to be seen as immoral – even by other atheists: study

Atheists Don’t Even Trust Other Atheists

Avoiding Exaggerated Claims

https://youtu.be/FRZVQhTY9_E

Genesis Among the Pagans

Ken Keathley explains how Genesis is also a polemic against surrounding Ancient Near East pagan theology and pantheons.

https://youtu.be/6zSyD6qY0hc

The Pilgrim's Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism

I've often heard it said that because C.S. Lewis was so shaken by his defeat in his debate with Elizabeth Anscombe on the existence of God that he stopped writing apologetical material and resorted to writing fiction in order to promote Christianity. C.S. Lewis expert Jerry Root points out that C.S. Lewis' first apologetical work was in the form of this allegorical fiction. So, it wasn't a retreat. In fact, according to Root, Lewis wrote 36 essays on apologetics before the debate, and 34 essays after the debate. So. the evidence goes contrary to the common claim.

Jerry Root makes the above point in his enlightening lecture below at 13 minutes and 4 seconds:

https://youtu.be/gY6Nl10SSLo

“Unfallen Worlds: Malacandra and Perelandra” - Jerry Root
 

The below link is to Lewis' book: The Pilgrim's Regress: An   Allegorical Apology for Christianity, Reason and Romanticism

http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/PDFs/Pilgrims_Regress_CSL.pdf

Book Reviews of Why Is There Evil In The World (And So Much Of It)? by Greg Welty

By Steve Hays:
https://triablogue.blogspot.com/2018/05/why-is-there-evil-in-world-and-so-much_30.html

By James Anderson:
http://www.proginosko.com/2018/06/why-is-there-evil-in-the-world-and-so-much-of-it/

Debunking the Theory that the Pictograms of Paleo-Hebrew Have a Secondary Meaning

 Michael Heiser and Michael Brown - The Paleo-Hebrew Alphabet

https://youtu.be/aEFHoEQ9ft8