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October 2012

October 31, 2012
Andrea Yates drowned her five children to save them from Satan, but both she and...
October 29, 2012
Peter Kreeft’s Argument from Conscience assumes an absolute obligation. Like so many other apologists, his...
October 27, 2012
The piece of rubble known as the World Trade Center Cross is a popular flash...
October 26, 2012
We’re told that the gospel story must be true because, if it weren’t, eyewitnesses at...
October 25, 2012
Leah Libresco has hit the ball back over the net in our conversation on morality....
October 24, 2012
My recent summary of how Christianity, seen correctly, supports same-sex marriage was rather brief. This...
October 22, 2012
Leah Libresco (of Unequally Yoked) has commented on my blog post about objective morality. She...
October 19, 2012
Does Christianity look like the one true religion, clearly different from all the thousands of...
October 17, 2012
C. S. Lewis wrote on a number of apologetic topics. Let’s consider his thinking on...
October 15, 2012
Here’s an excerpt from my book where two characters discuss prayer. What does the Bible...
October 12, 2012
In which I attend a local church and get a good dose of Pulpit Freedom...
October 10, 2012
Some Christians point to their Bible for reasons to reject same-sex marriage. Religious reasoning may...
October 08, 2012
The philosophical paper which was the inspiration for the 40-day Atheist Prayer Experiment has some...
October 07, 2012
Here’s an interesting analogy that gives a new perspective on different worldviews and how we...
October 05, 2012
I’ve argued that well-informed atheists can’t be moved by intellectual arguments for religion. Let’s test...
October 03, 2012
I can believe that you used to be an atheist. It’s the “just like you”...
October 01, 2012
Let me update you on the Atheist Prayer Experiment, week 2. Is the Problem of...

September 2012

September 28, 2012
About the puzzling questions at the limits of science, apologists often say, “If you can’t...
September 26, 2012
Miracle claims are a little out of vogue. Where they’re made, they’re rarely splashed across...
September 24, 2012
What’s happened after my first week of daily prayer?
September 22, 2012
A tiny papyrus scrap, “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” has been making the news. What...
September 21, 2012
You never find the story of Jesus in a history book, like you would for...
September 19, 2012
Contrast the recent violence in the Middle East over perceived insults to Islam with a...
September 17, 2012
The 40-day atheist prayer experiment begins today. I'll kick this off with a critique of...
September 14, 2012
Let’s explore an interesting twist on a popular board game. The resulting game has the...
September 12, 2012
Like our earlier analysis of Psalm 22, only by selecting individual phrases of Isaiah 53...
September 10, 2012
A worldwide experiment will start in a week in which atheists pray for God to...
September 08, 2012
Stephen Jay Gould proposed the idea of Non-Overlapping Magisteria to calm the warring camps of...
September 07, 2012
Why were the Nazis so disagreeable? Because they were force-fed evolution, of course! (Or maybe...
September 05, 2012
Apologists claim hundreds of prophecies fulfilled by the life of Jesus, and this psalm is...
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