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Christopher Tanner
- Jun 7, 2018
- 1 min
Cellar Door Skeptics 127: Center For Inquiry and Civics Day
https://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics/civics-day Today’s episode is special and one that Tanner felt was needed after a long day of talking to legislators. This episode is done in solo as Hanna has taken off a few weeks to be with his wife and newborn daughter. This episode will focus on the recent Civic’s Day hosted by CFI Michigan at the Michigan State capitol building. The episode will talk about his experiences, the desire to start working toward changing peopl
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Christopher Tanner
- Jun 13, 2017
- 12 min
The Great Evolution Debate Notes
This blog post is a quick look inside Host Chris Hanna’s mind as he prepped for the debate. I thought this would be good for those who want to read what went into our side of the debate. Don’t forget to check out the episode right here! Listen to the episode right here! Opening statement (10 mins)
Things to ask in rebuttal to Aaron’s opening
His definition of evolution: Science and fine tuning Looking from the wrong direction: if you start at the solution (the theist way) t
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Christopher Tanner
- Mar 22, 2016
- 1 min
#23: Astronomy Saves The World
Are the presidential rallies getting too violent and losing sight of what they were supposed to be for? Chris and Christopher weigh in on the hypocrisy rampant on BOTH sides lately. After that Daniel Batcheldor stops by to explain to us how astronomy can save the world and plug his amazing upcoming book! To close out the show, some bunk arguments against GMO foods were crushed and Christopher got Chris a bit ripped, leading to his first rant about teaching the controversy. Yo
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Christopher Tanner
- Mar 8, 2016
- 7 min
International Women’s Day Episode 21 Notes
International Women’s Day Theme: Pledge For Parity Definition: noun the state or condition of being equal, especially regarding status or pay. #PledgeForParity Links http://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme ***All the information has come from the International Women’s Day website. I have consolidated it for the purpose of my notes on the podcast. Chris Hanna and Myself felt that it would be a benefit to everyone to have all the links in one place along with the flow. P
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Christopher Tanner
- Feb 2, 2016
- 1 min
#17: DEBATE “Is There Sufficient Evidence For The Christian God”
Listen Here: http://www.spreaker.com/user/cellardoorskeptics/17-debate-presup This week is a first us here at Cellar Door Skeptics, a formal debate on the topic “Is There Sufficient Evidence For The Christian God?” Chris Hanna will be taking the moderator position in an effort to quell the fire and the flames between his co-host Christopher Tanner and our guest, Aaron Furlong. Aaron will be taking the positive with a strong background in presuppositional Christian apologetics
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 31, 2016
- 3 min
DEBATE “Is There Sufficient Evidence For The Christian God” Bios
DEBATE “Is There Sufficient Evidence For The Christian God” Bios We wanted to do a post that both the Bios and the debate rules in it. This is the post. Our goal is to present the most information about our guests and allow for anyone reading this and listening to the show to be able to connect with the debaters. At Cellar Door Skeptics we strive to present a well rounded and fair debate along with the information needed to give everyone the knowledge we hope they gain fro
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 11, 2016
- 1 min
New Promotional Commercial!
Cellar Door Skeptics Promotional Video Well here it is in all its “glory”. The first public commercial created to help everyone understand who Cellar Door Skeptics is and how you can find all our content. Cellar Door Skeptics is a podcast based out of Grand Rapids Michigan featuring hosts Christopher Tanner & Chris Hanna. This podcast will include some video as we build up our show. We will be tackling science, skepticism, atheism, humanism, politics and entertainment. We ar
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 11, 2016
- 1 min
#13: Not Another New Year
#13: Not Another New Year Ring in the new year with Cellar Door Skeptics. In our 2016 inaugural episode, we tackle fracking, gerrymandering and vote manipulation, and whether we should vote only vote two party in a close election year. We also are joined by our friends in the podcast community, Jen and Keith from Not Another Atheist Podcast as help weigh in on these important topics. They will stick around for the full show to provide their expert and sometimes vulgar yet hon
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Christopher Tanner
- Jun 16, 2015
- 4 min
Simplicity As Confirmation Bias
For More from David, Click HERE For those philosophically minded, William Ockham will immediately engender various degrees of analytic glee, the name synonymous with logical parsimony or simple explanation. The more user-friendly phrase concerning parsimony is: “Don’t multiply entities beyond necessity.” Then again, perhaps the phrase isn’t as friendly as it may be to some. Thankfully that’s rather the point here, simplicity being, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder. Con
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Christopher Tanner
- Mar 9, 2015
- 14 min
International Women’s Day Tribute
The main website mentioned above says this, “International Women’s Day on March 8th is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women’s Day is a national holiday. Suffragettes campaigned for women’s right to vote. The word ‘Suffragette’ is derived from the word “suffrage” meaning the right to vote. International Women’s Day honours the work
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Christopher Tanner
- Feb 19, 2015
- 5 min
Hiding Behind a Mask Of Religious Persecution: Deny a Michigan Gay Couple’s Child Medical Treatment
By now most of you reading this have probably already heard about the Michigan Doctor who refused to treat a Lesbian couples young child for medical service. Now lets make one thing clear, she This story hits c The story starts with a couple coming in to see a doctor whom they had made an appointment with for their newborn child. When the couple reached the clinic not only was their child’s doctor not in the building, the doctor also had left them a message that she had praye
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Christopher Tanner
- Feb 5, 2015
- 2 min
Secular Avenue (SAFE): Your Path to a Safe Place
If you’ve spent any time on YouTube or Facebook, you’ve probably seen some pretty awful videos of responses from families when individual members “come out”. Very recently, there was a sad story about a transgender girl who killed herself after years of religious-based “therapy” and her parents’ denial of permission to start conversion therapy. Often, atheists and agnostics coming out as non-believers and skeptics to their families isn’t as spectacular, but if you browse thi
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Christopher Tanner
- Feb 2, 2015
- 8 min
Congress Shall Make No Law…
A little over a year ago I ran into the following news item from the land that gave us David Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/parents-outrage-extremist-religious-sect-2254926. I posted it on my Facebook page, thereby precipitating a winding, entertaining, and sometimes heated discussion with a Christian fundamentalist Facebook friend from England. His position is not uncommon, and certainly more prevalent in my country than
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 7, 2015
- 2 min
Understanding the Rumors of a Christian God
Here at Atheist Analysis we try to bring the most well balanced materials to our viewers. We do not want people to believe without evidence but sometimes we feel it is necessary to entertain ideas that we have already come to a conclusion on. This is what our series Conversations With Christians is all about. Our goal was to provide a safe environment for Christians that allowed them to express what they believed on different topics. We wanted to provide a space where Christi
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 5, 2015
- 5 min
A Year Long Journey Into Pasta & Leaving Atheism Behind
Over the past year, Atheist Analysis has had the pleasure of getting to know a fine young gentleman named Joey Kirkman. His book Bedtime Bible Stories was a great inspiration for our organization as we looked for tools to provide those in the atheist movement resources to help combat religion. Joey, who has in recent years identified as an anti-theist, and even skeptic, has taken on another label in hopes of trying on a new religion. He has recently converted to and become
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 4, 2015
- 2 min
Have Some of The Newsboys Turned Atheist?
The Newsboys, an Australian Christian Rock band that started in the 1980’s and has received national success within the Christian Rock Scene. They are responsible for the most recent hit off the sound track God‘s Not Dead and were an intricate part of many children of the late 80’s and 90’s as they were a clean and wholesome group that promoted god through their lyrics and their lives. But what if we told you that even a band that spent years within the main stream Christia
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Christopher Tanner
- Jan 2, 2015
- 7 min
To Those Who Didn’t Make It, Leelah’s Continuing Story to Fix Society
“I dedicate this blog to my friend Samantha and all other transgender youth who have been affected by this. My heart goes out for them.” As events continue to unfold with Leelah Alcorn, I felt the need to write a brief follow up to my original post, “Leelah, the child god forgot to save.” If you have not read it or heard of the situation, please check it out, give it a share, and comment on it. In short, the article entailed the suicide of a transgender teen whose parents re
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Christopher Tanner
- Dec 2, 2014
- 8 min
Is there a Secular Reason to Be Against Gay Marriage?
Whether there are any legitimate arguments against gay marriage that do not ultimately come back to “it’s icky and God said so” is a question I see many atheists contemplating. Today, I am going to attempt to answer this question by looking at common criticisms I have seen people use against it. Of course if we really try hard enough, we could find reasons to be against gay marriage, the logical conclusions of such reasons would lead to a rather authoritarian society, which g
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Christopher Tanner
- Nov 15, 2014
- 3 min
Live Debate Sunday! Should Abortion Be Legal with Trent Horn & Jonathan Brotherton
Atheist Analysis S03 E13: Should abortion remain legal? Catholic Apologist Trent Horn VS Jonathan Brotherton Should abortion remain legal? This will be a LIVE DEBATE between Trent Horn and Jonathan Brotherton. They will be debating whether Abortion should remain legal. Jonny will be taking the affirmative while Trent will take the negative stance. Do not miss this debate as it will be a lively debate and we will have audience participation at the end of the show. If you would
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