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October 27, 2014
William Provine on Evolutionary Naturalism and Morality
Cornell University biologist William Provine debated UC Berkeley law professor in 1998. (Click here for...
October 25, 2014
Another Failed Defense of “The Inevitable Consequences of an Atheist Worldview”
Steve Hays has commented on my previous post, "Fact Checking the Inevitable Consequences of an...
October 24, 2014
Fact-Checking “The Inevitable Consequences of an Atheist Worldview”
Earlier this year, J. Warner Wallace reposted on his blog something written by an anonymous...
October 23, 2014
Link: Why Science Cannot Explain Why Anything At All Exists by Luke Barnes
Physicist and cosmologist Luke Barnes wrote an interesting post in his blog a while ago...
October 20, 2014
Questions Concerning the Existence of God
It does not look like I can retire this year, maybe next year (it could...
October 20, 2014
Swinburne’s Argument from Religious Experience – Part 1
In The Existence of God (2nd edition, hereafter: EOG) , Richard Swinburne presents a careful and...
October 18, 2014
Atheism, Morality, and Divine Nature Theories vs. Ideal Observer Theories
This another item I found while organizing material on my hard drive. I think I...
October 17, 2014
J.L. Mackie’s Argument from Queerness against Objective Values
In his highly significant book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, the late Oxford philosopher J.L....
October 17, 2014
Morality Cannot Have a Foundation in God: A Summary for the General Reader by Quentin Smith
The following essay was written by Quentin Smith around 2001 or 2002, but inexplicably fell...
October 08, 2014
One Problem with Swinburne’s Case for God – Part 2
In a previous post I pointed out three different problems related to the third argument in...
October 05, 2014
Did God Create Nuclear Weapons?
Christians and other believers in God often say, 'God created everything.' If we take this...
August 2014
August 06, 2014
One Problem with Swinburne’s Case for God
In The Existence of God (2nd edition, hereafter: EOG), Richard Swinburne lays out a systematic...
August 04, 2014
Norman Geisler’s Case for the Death of Jesus – Part 4
Part of Geisler's case for the claim that "Jesus actually died on the cross" is...
August 01, 2014
Can Atheism Support Ethical Absolutes? A Reply to Roger Olson
Roger Olson, a fellow Patheos blogger who can be found in the Evangelical channel on Patheos,...
July 2014
July 30, 2014
Why I am Not Concerned about Christian Theist Philosophers of Religion
One reason I am not concerned about the prevalence of Christian theists in the field...
July 28, 2014
Decisive Refutation of the Kalam Cosmological Argument
I don't know how to force this Patheos blog into causing an old post to...
July 27, 2014
Norman Geisler’s Case for the Death of Jesus – Part 3
In previous posts I have argued that only two of Geisler's eight reasons for the...
July 21, 2014
Hard-Hitting Critique of WLC’s Moral Argument by John Danaher “Necessary Moral Truths and Theistic Metaethics”
To be precise, this paper applies to WLC's moral argument for God's existence as follows....
July 21, 2014
New by Paul Draper: God and the Burden of Proof
See the attachment below. "God and the Burden of Proof" by Paul Draper (2014)
July 20, 2014
Norman Geisler’s Case for the Death of Jesus – Part 2
In When Skeptics Ask, Norman Geisler presents eight reasons in support of the claim that...
July 19, 2014
The Case for the Death of Jesus – Part 2
A challenge (or two) to my previous post "The Case for the Death of Jesus"...
July 18, 2014
Does Evolution “Explain” Objective Morality? A Reply to Jerry Coyne
Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne recently wrote about Leah Libresco's conversion from atheism to Catholicism based...
July 18, 2014
Evan Fales: Deepak Chopra’s $1M Prize is a Publicity Stunt
(This is a guest post by Evan Fales about Deepak Chopra's recent challenge to the...
July 16, 2014
Is Empathy Just Another Feeling That Can Be Suppressed if Metaphysical Naturalism Is True?
Depending on the particulars, an argument from silence may be logically correct or incorrect. I've...
July 14, 2014
God of the Gaps Arguments
I see the phrase "God-of-the-gaps" (GOTG) argument used a lot in the blogosphere, but people...
July 14, 2014
Norman Geisler’s Case for the Death of Jesus
Let me cut to the chase: Geisler's case for the claim that "Jesus actually died...
July 03, 2014
The Evidential Argument from Moral Agency Revisited: A Reply to Jerry Coyne
1. Introduction Biologist Jerry Coyne recently blogged about an argument I've called the "evidential argument...
June 2014
June 30, 2014
An Invitation to William Lane Craig
An Invitation to William Lane Craig On May 23 and June 9, respectively, the...
June 28, 2014
The Case for the Death of Jesus
I have written several posts about William Craig's "case" for the death of Jesus in...
June 22, 2014
Craig’s “Historical Evidence” for the Death of Jesus – Part 8
In the first three paragraphs of William Craig's "case" for the claim that Jesus died...
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