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June 2013

June 28, 2013
Abstract: According to traditional Western theism,God is maximally great (or perfect). More explicitly, God is...
June 28, 2013
I've been reading the reactions to the pair of SCOTUS rulings on gay marriage by...
June 28, 2013
This book review is itself very interesting and makes me want to read the book.
June 27, 2013
In a comment a couple of weeks ago I wondered aloud what "traditional marriage" actually...
June 20, 2013
See here and here. (HT: Evan Fales) Amazing. As someone else pointed out to me,...
June 20, 2013
From Good Christian Michelle Bachmann: And Jesus spake unto them saying, "Blessed are the...
June 15, 2013
When Bart Ehrman asserts that "Jesus existed", he is asserting something like the following Minimal...
June 13, 2013
His post: Do naturalists have more to lose? If not, why are they crucifying Thomas Nagel? ...
June 13, 2013
  From my book Believing Bullshit.   Moving the goalposts The expression “moving the goalposts”...
June 12, 2013
In a recent blog post, Randal Rauser wonders about the prospects that atheists (or anyone,...
June 12, 2013
Back in 2008 Alonzo Fyfe blogged about the question, "Where do atheists get their morality?"...
June 10, 2013
Someone named Randal Rauser thinks I am being mean to fundamentalists: I am. I...
June 10, 2013
If Jesus did not EXIST, then Jesus did not EXIT this life by dying on...
June 08, 2013
In case you don't already follow Randal Rauser's blog, The Tentative Apologist, he has been posting a...
June 07, 2013
Author: Bart D. Ehrman Publisher: HarperCollins Copyright: 2012. Full Title: Did Jesus Exist? The Historical...
June 05, 2013
Re-reading Theism and Explanation by Gregory Dawes suggested another potential logical problem with Stephen Meyer's argument in The...
June 05, 2013
I have greatly enjoyed posting and commenting on Patheos. The look is great and the...
June 05, 2013
In the last couple of days, two Christian apologists have published critiques of the Kalam...
June 05, 2013
Let me lay my prejudices out on the table, before I get into the pros...
June 03, 2013
I've been reading Stephen C. Meyer’s massive book, Signature in the Cell. For those who...
June 03, 2013
This is an insightful and accurate description of the pernicious effects of fundamentalism on, well,...
June 01, 2013
If I understand William Craig's third objection to AMR, then he is basically offering an...

May 2013

May 28, 2013
When I argue against the resurrection of Jesus, I generally take a two-pronged approach. First,...
May 26, 2013
My interview from West Midland's Faith Forum (one year after the riots).
May 25, 2013
I have argued previously that Craig's first two objections to AMR are weak at best....
May 22, 2013
I am not impressed by Richard Taylor's appeal to etymology as an argument for the...
May 21, 2013
Here's an endnote I am adding to a chapter I am contributing to the upcoming...
May 15, 2013
Richard Taylor's book Virtue Ethics: An Introduction (formerly published as Ethics, Faith, and Reason) provides...
May 14, 2013
    Humanism: Science, Reason and Skepticism[1]   What are science and reason?   Humanists...
May 14, 2013
Here is a quote from Baudrillard that Prof Paul Taylor chose for the Radio 3...
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