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Thursday, May 30, 2024

Finished My Massive Reply to Daniel's Moral Argument for Theism

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In order to keep the original URL working, I decided to post updates to the original post rather than make new posts. I am announcing it her...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

Schellenberg's Forthcoming Book on the Philosophy of Christianity: "What God Would Have Known"

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It is an honor to announce that Mount Saint Vincent University philosopher J.L. Schellenberg has a new book coming out on the philosophy of ...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Reply to Daniel's Moral Argument for Theism

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1. No Good Reason to Think (1) Is True 1.1. The Inessential Objection 1.2. The Underdetermination Objection 1.3. The Prior Obligations Objec...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

Index: The Evidential Argument from the Holocaust against Theism

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This article will serve as a hub for organizing past and future responses to my evidential argument from the Holocaust against theism .  1: ...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

Is It Impossible to Prove Atheism?

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(Originally published on 1 September 2023; revised version published on 7 September 2023; revised again on 10 September 2023.) 1: Introducti...
Saturday, August 19, 2023

The Columbine Mass Shooting and the Myth of Cassie Bernall's Martyrdom

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Mark D. Linville has published a short booklet with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) entitled, "Is Everything Permitte...
Friday, August 18, 2023

More on Plantinga, Atheism, and Moral Obligation

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Today I remembered Plantinga wrote a very interesting article on naturalism and obligation back in 2010 in the journal Faith and Philosophy...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Can We Show There is No Inconsistency between Atheism and Moral Obligation?

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In a  prior post , I showed that Plantinga has failed to demonstrate a contradiction between atheism and moral obligation in any of this thr...

Assessing the Resurrection Hypothesis: McCullagh, Craig, Cavin, and Colombetti

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In this post, I want to consider the assessment of historical hypotheses such as the alleged resurrection of Jesus ( R ), using the writin...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Is the Combination of Atheism and Moral Obligation a Contradiction?

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An Impossible (or Penrose ) Triangle Source: OpenClipArt ; License: CC   Three Types of Contradictions Writing in 1955, the late Oxford don...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

S.E. Cupp: Trump Has Broken American Evangelical Christianity

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Pro-God Atheism

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For many former theists-turned-atheists, the loss of belief in God is a source of sadness. Consider these words from Christian-turned-atheis...
Wednesday, August 09, 2023

Atheism and the Laws of Logic

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Daniel (@DarwinToJesus) recently tweeted the following: #1. The laws of logic: There are three basic foundational laws of logic. 1. The law ...
Monday, August 07, 2023

Theistic vs. Naturalistic Grounding of Moral Value

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Seth Dillon, the CEO of The Babylon Bee, recently tweeted the following: Sure, atheists have moral values — they just can't ground them...
Sunday, August 06, 2023

New Paper Refuting Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy"

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Terence Irwin Elizabeth Anscombe Irwin, T. The Philosophy and History of the Moral ‘Ought’: Some of Anscom...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

The Pragmatic Inconsistency of Responding to Nihilism with Despair

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(1) Necessarily, if metaethical nihilism is true, then nothing matters. (2) Responding with despair to the (supposed) truth of metaethical n...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Draft Essay: Naturalism, Theism, Badness, and Moral Law: A Critique of Ravi Zacharias

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  Overview: 1: Introduction 2: Logical Arguments from Evil (a) Historical Context  (b) Zacharias's Framing of the Problem of Evil 3: Zac...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Empathy and Apathy: An Evidential Problem for Theists

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Serial killer Ted Bundy Image Source: Florida Memory Project ; License: Public Domain 1. Definitions Following Paul Draper, I'm going to...
Monday, July 17, 2023

The Divine-vs.-Human Argument against Christianity

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1. If Christianity were true, then Christ is divine. [Given] 2. If Christianity were true, then Christ is human. [Given] 3. If Christ is div...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

Assessing the Transcendence-vs.-Personhood Argument for the Impossibility of God

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Source: Alchetron In this post, I want to assess an argument for atheism called the Transcendence-vs.-Personhood Argument (hereafter, "...