Continuing a theme begun in This and That, J.T. McDaniel now
presents a collection of 19 essays, ranging from the titular More
on Theistic Atheism, to Odd Animals and Space Aliens. In the first,
the author further develops the idea of an atheism that includes a
deity (if admittedly an imaginary one). While the idea that, "It's
okay to believe in god, as long as you realize it's imaginary"
essentially defines theistic atheism, most of the other essays
simply dispense with the idea of any reality beyond the physical.
Along with appeals to logic and critical thinking, essays cover
such topics as gay marriage, abortion, climate change, the
relationship between government and religion, and between religion
and science. On the lighter side, McDaniel examines some reasons
why the world is unlikely to end in 2012, the music he wants played
at his funeral (Queen, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Boito, but definitely
not Amazing Grace), and the possibility of actual immortality in a
virtual world. There is a suggestion that a new political party
might be in order. Climate change is viewed through a practical
lens, which suggests that far more could be accomplished through
the use of tax incentives than the usual government instinct of
using any crisis as an excuse to wring more funds out of the
taxpayers. The use of existing infrastructure to produce cheap
hydrogen is also studied. The collection concludes with a look at
cryptozoology, which the author finds valid mostly in the realm of
insects and fish, but not bigfoot or mokele-mbembe. He then argues
that space aliens are probably real, but that it's unlikely they
have visited here, or that any extraterrestrial civilization would
even know we were here.
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