Philosophy

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I was at a Christmas party a few years ago and someone walked up to me and began talking to me about my views on God. At one point in the conversation he asked the age-old question, “Can God make a rock so heavy that he himself can’t lift it?” Among other things, I mentioned that omnipotence does not mean that God can do what is logically impossible. Then the conversation abruptly ended as he said, “You can’t use logic to talk about God. God is not bound by the logic of Man!”

“ I can see the fingerprints of God When I look at you I can see the fingerprints of God And I know its true You’re a masterpiece That all creation quietly applauds And you’re covered with the fingerprints of God ” ~from Fingerprints of God , by Stephen Curtis Chapman     The common scientific view of the “hardware of life” (that is, the physical components of living systems) is, as Biologist Richard Dawkins puts it, “the study of complicated things that give the appearan

The discussion concerning Libertarian Free Will vs Divine Causal Determinism continues as it has for quite some time. Many people I come across in discussions tend to have an idea of where they already lean on the issue, even if related questions still linger. What of those who do not know much on the issue or have come to no definite conclusion? Personally I think the debate is far from uncertain but if one is uncertain on the question of Free Will/Determinism and feels that

With the holiday season looming, most Christian fare on the book market is going to be focused around the topic of Christmas. While this is all well and good, the Apologetics fan on your gift list is going to be looking for meatier topics. If you want to meet the spiritual and intellectual needs of the bibliophile on your gift list, consider one of the following books to set under the tree. Tactics, by Greg Koukl The Bible insists that believers share the Gospel with others

Atheists often appeal to evolution in an attempt to explain the primate complexity we observe today without a need for an Intelligent Designer -- God! Indeed, many say the reason they affirm atheism is because they believe evolution is true. Since their hypothesis does not include God as a designer, atheists feel justified in affirming that God does not exist and that Christianity is false. With that said, however, if evolution is true, it does nothing to prove that God does

Por Tim Stratton | Traducido por Allan Sánchez Uno de mis argumentos favoritos para la existencia de Dios se llama el Argumento Cosmológico Kalam (ACK). Consiste en dos premisas que llevan a una conclusión lógicamente deductiva. El silogismo es el siguiente: 1- Todo lo que comienza a existir tiene una causa. 2- El universo comenzó a existir. 3- Por lo tanto, el universo tiene una causa. Premisa Uno Comencemos analizando la primera premisa: "Todo lo que comienza a existir

Question Dear Dr. Erasmus, Tim Stratton shared your post, Objections to the Existence of the Soul , to the UK Apologetics and Evangelism Facebook group, of which I am a member. In that group, there is a very knowledgeable Christian who does not seem to believe in the existence of a soul yet says he is not a strict materialist or physicalist. I'm sending you a discussion he had with Lenny Esposito in which Lenny posted about atheism's weakness regarding the lack of a soul and

“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” - Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion Christians maintain that God is all-good, all-loving, and the ultimate standard of morality.

In a recent blog post , Professor Keith Parsons offers three reasons for why (he thinks) the soul does not exist. (You might recall that Parsons debated William Lane Craig in 1998). Since Parsons' objections to substance dualism (for simplicity, I will hereafter refer to substance dualism simply as 'dualism') seem rather common among lay atheists, his objections are worth evaluating. Let us, then, evaluate Parsons' blog post. The Burden of Proof Before offering his three o

Summary: In the movie Calvinist the interviewees (ostensibly) argue in favor of the doctrine of total depravity and that it precludes libertarian free will (hereafter LFW). In this essay I demonstrate that the interviewees beg the question in favor of total depravity and for the idea that it is at odds with LFW. Introduction The movie Calvinist includes a section which is dedicated to articulating and defending 5-point Calvinism. This article is the first of a five part s

In my last article , I compared superhero origin stories to the beginning of the universe. Every superhero needs an origin story, and so does the universe. We need a reason why it exists. I argued the best explanation is a God who caused the universe to come into existence. But doesn’t that just push the origins problem back one step? What is God’s origin story? Why is he here? That’s the focus of this article. Whenever cosmic origins is discussed and God is offered as the e

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Question Hey Tim, A question from your fellow Nebraska Reasonable Faith chapter director! When discussing the Moral Argument with my Reasonable Faith chapter in Omaha, I received some pushback from one of our members, who just so happens to have his PhD in meta-ethics. The objection he had to the Moral Argument was to the premise, “If God does not exist, then objective moral values and duties do not exist.” Erik Wielenberg, an atheist philosopher from DePauw University, prop

Abstract: Dan Barker has put forth a purportedly destructive objection against the existence of the Judeo-Christian God from what he perceives as an incompatibility between an all-knowing God and the existence of free will. This essay will scrutinize the claim that God’s free-will is incompatible with his omniscience and that the so-called Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP) is necessary for free will. The kind of free will assumed in this essay is Libertarian Free W

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Every superhero has an origin story. Spider-man was bitten by a radioactive spider. Batman’s parents were murdered before his very eyes as a child. Superman’s parents sent him on a rocket to earth where he was discovered and raised by the Kents. Origin stories tell the tale of how a superhero gained his powers or what event drove him to fight for truth and justice. However, we don't just like origin stories. We need to know how these heroes were created. Why did the Avenge

Almost every time I go for a drive these days I can count on seeing at least one bumper sticker with only one word on it -- " COEXIST ." According to Wikipedia , the bumper sticker typically spells "COEXIST" using an Islamic crescent moon for the "C," a peace sign for the "O," a combination of the male and female symbols for the "E," a Star of David for the "X," a pentagram for the dot of the "I," a yin-yang symbol for the "S," and a Christian cross for the "T."  The meaning

https://youtu.be/ukrcdi9u46c The original podcast can be found on Alisa Childer's website by clicking here .