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May 2016

May 18, 2016
The Independence of Passages vs. Books Among the seven "independent" Gospels to which Ehrman's ABSIG (Agreements...
May 17, 2016
Existence vs. Basic Aspects/Attributes "Did Jesus exist?" - What does this question mean? Clarity is...
May 16, 2016
I was recently asked to participate in a public discussion/debate about the question "Did Jesus...
May 12, 2016
I wrote this about 10 years ago but never finished it. In light of recent...
May 12, 2016
I'm not a psychiatrist, but as a teenager I worked for an elderly woman who...
May 12, 2016
Worldview as a Way of Life? The third objection that James Sire raises against his...
May 12, 2016
In my previous post I argued that science and religion still can and do clash,...
May 11, 2016
The traditional Christian view of the resurrection of Jesus involves a number of beliefs or...
May 11, 2016
In my last post, I reported that WLC has reached the same conclusion I have...
May 11, 2016
He doesn't mention by name, of course, and may not have even had my argument...
May 11, 2016
“Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every new science, like the serpents strangled by...
May 10, 2016
I stopped reading Triablogue some time ago, but today I decided to make an exception. After...
May 09, 2016
Cosmic pluralism, the plurality of worlds, or simply pluralism, describes the philosophical belief in numerous "worlds"...
May 08, 2016
According to Victor Reppert, skeptics need the hallucination theory in order to reject the resurrection....
May 07, 2016
One of the cool tricks you can use to check yourself for confirmation bias is...
May 07, 2016
Sire's First Two Objections Shortly after the turn of the century, the Christian apologist James Sire...
May 06, 2016
Yesterday the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) sued the U.S. Congress for barring atheist Dan...
May 04, 2016
Campus Crusade for Christ sponsored a website called EveryStudent.com, a site that targets college students...
May 02, 2016
Shortly after the turn of the century, the Christian apologist James Sire revised his understanding of...
May 01, 2016
Campus Crusade for Christ sponsored a website called EveryStudent.com, a site that targets college students...

April 2016

April 30, 2016
If your debate opponent defends a position (call it H1), argue against H1. Don't argue...
April 29, 2016
In response to Wintery Knight's recent blog post on the plausibility of objective morality on...
April 29, 2016
Anyone who has (or had) a loving father in their lives did not spend their...
April 29, 2016
(Reposting since this seems to be so popular. So far as I am aware, neither...
April 27, 2016
If you are meeting someone for the first time, it is a good idea to...
April 25, 2016
I was bored one night a few weeks ago and did a Google search on...
April 25, 2016
I recently had an interesting discussion here at SO on Sam Harris’s views on “moderate”...
April 24, 2016
As Ninian Smart points out, there are secular worldviews as well as religious worldviews.  ...
April 21, 2016
Prof. Alexander Pruss considers the traditional doctrine of hell and its alternatives: The three...
April 19, 2016
The primary goal of my Ten Year Plan is to evaluate Christianity, to answer the question...
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