There are more pathetic arguments given by Marilyn Adamson in the section of her web article that she characterizes as her first reason (out of six) for believing that God exists: The complexity of our planet points to a deliberate Designer who not only created our universe, but sustains it today. After her crappy argument based on the size of the Earth and it's distance from the Sun, she gives another crappy argument based on the properties of water:Water...colorless, odorless and … [Read more...]
Adamson’s Cru[de] Arguments for God – Part 6
May 29, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Cosmic pluralism, the plurality of worlds, or simply pluralism, describes the philosophical belief in numerous “worlds” in addition to Earth (possibly an infinite number), which may harbour extraterrestrial life. (from Wikipedia article “Cosmic Pluralism“)In my criticism of Adamson’s initial argument for the existence of God, I pointed out that cosmic pluralism is an idea that has been around since the beginning of Western philosophy about 2,500 years ago (the pre-socratic philosopher Anax … [Read more...]
William Lane Craig Admits that His Fine-Tuning Argument is Based Upon Speculation
May 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment
In my last post, I reported that WLC has reached the same conclusion I have regarding the scale of the universe as evidence against theism. After re-reading his article, I realized I missed an even more important announcement. Although he would deny it, in the same article he also admits that his fine-tuning argument is based upon speculation. Here's the money quote: Indeed, once we launch into speculating about universes operating according to different laws of nature, then we have completely … [Read more...]
Adamson’s Cru[de] Arguments for God – Part 5
May 9, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Cosmic pluralism, the plurality of worlds, or simply pluralism, describes the philosophical belief in numerous "worlds" in addition to Earth (possibly an infinite number), which may harbour extraterrestrial life. (from Wikipedia article "Cosmic Pluralism")In my criticism of Adamson's initial argument for the existence of God, I pointed out that cosmic pluralism is an idea that has been around since the beginning of Western philosophy about 2,500 years ago (the pre-socratic philosopher An … [Read more...]
Adamson’s Cru[de] Arguments for God – Part 4
May 4, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Campus Crusade for Christ sponsored a website called EveryStudent.com, a site that targets college students as its primary audience. The director of the website is Marilyn Adamson. Adamson wrote a key article for the website called "Is There a God?" which provides six reasons in support of the claim that God exists. Adamson completely destroys her own credibility in the opening paragraphs of the article where she presents an obviously bad argument that constitutes the first of the six reas … [Read more...]
Adamson’s Cru[de] Arguments for God – Part 1
April 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
I was bored one night a few weeks ago and did a Google search on "Does God exist". One of the top hits that came back was for this webpage:http://www.everystudent.com/features/isthere.htmlThis webpage contains an article written by Marilyn Adamson, called "Is There a God?", which according to the sub-title presents "six straightforward reasons to believe that God is really there." According to the "About" page the EveryStudent.com website is sponsored by "an interdenominational C … [Read more...]
Hostility of the Universe to Life: Understated Evidence about Cosmic Fine-Tuning?
February 15, 2016 by Leave a Comment
(Redated post originally dated 22 January 2013)I've blogged before about the fallacy of understated evidence. Here I want to explore further how it applies to fine-tuning arguments.Let us define the "general fact of cosmic 'fine-tuning'" as follows. FT: some universe or other has the initial conditions, laws, and constants which make the existence of complex intelligent life of some sort possible. Even if we assume that so-called cosmic "fine-tuning" is evidence favoring theism over … [Read more...]
I Don’t Care
February 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Thomas Aquinas pulled a classic BAIT-AND-SWITCH move in Summa Theologica: “Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, moved by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.”“Therefore it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name of God.” “Therefore we cannot but admit the existence of some being having of itself its own necessity, and not receiving it from another, but rather causing in others their necessity. This all men speak of … [Read more...]
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