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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

An answer to Ahab

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To answer Ahab on the Lehigh statement affirming Darwinian theory and repudiating intelligent design, this is a clear case of avoiding the ...
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Monday, August 29, 2005

A post from ID the Future

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Here is a post from ID the Future , about Daniel Dennett's op-ed piece. I would like to hear critical responses from opponents of ID. Ca...
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More on Myers and ID

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I deliberately included Myers' comments about translation and then neglected to comment upon it. You are right, he did say that, so he w...
Saturday, August 27, 2005

P Z Myers on why evolution is accepted

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Jim Lippard has called my attention to this passage from P. Z. Myers's weblog: http://pharyngula.org/index/weblog/comments/tanj_and_scie...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

With Christians like these, who needs atheists

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So Pat Robertson wants the US to perform a covert operation to "take out" Hugo Chavez, and he recommends this by announcin g it o...
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Dialogue with Ahab on motivation

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would argue that there potential motives of all kinds on all sides in this matter, than no one is immune from the influence of their passion...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Maverick on God and Comfort

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http://maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com/posts/1124504161.html
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Saturday, August 20, 2005

A provocative post from Brandon on atheism

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This reminds me of the time in grad school (though I wasn't in this particular class) when a tenured faculty member came into the classr...
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Friday, August 19, 2005

Lunch with Steve Lovell

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One thing I forgot to mention in my report on Cambridge was meeting Steve Lovell in person, with whom I had e-mailed and who wrote his philo...

The Office of Special counsel on the Sternberg case

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The Office of Special Counsel has decided that Sternberg's complaints were justified. See http://www.rsternberg.net/OSC_ltr.htm And this...
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Carr on Plantinga

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Steven Carr wrote: Plantinga writes 'Furthermore, since an argument can be good even if it is not deductively valid, you can't refut...
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Some Distinctions Concerning Methodological Naturalism

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I think we need to distinguish between someone who says "We will be methodological naturalists in the way in which we do science,"...

A note from Rasmus EmilMoller on natural-born dualists

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I was going through some old e-mail and found this item from Rasmus Emil-Moller. Is dualism a natural belief, like Hume would say that belie...

Do we all worship the same God?

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There is a post on http://theconstructivecurmudgeon.blogspot.com/ on whether Muslims and Christians worship the same God reminded me of my f...
Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Benign methodological naturalism?

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A passage from a paper I wrote on miracles suggest tome a way in which methodological naturalism can be formulated such that it can avoid t...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

My road to the ID problem

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I thought I should spell out some of my own intellectual history as it bears on the Creationism, evolution, and ID issue. I remember being i...
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Monday, August 15, 2005

Answering an Inquiry on LIbertarian Free Will

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Dr. Reppert, My name is Ross Parker . I'm 24 years old and I am about to start seminary at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. I...
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Saturday, August 13, 2005

Jason Pratt on ID

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I got this note from Jason Pratt : The question was recently asked, whether failures of Darwinism can be pointed to, similar to the crop fai...
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Peter Geach and the Lewis-Anscombe Debate Re-Enactment

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I was told that Peter Geach got wind of the re-enactment of his wife's controversy with Lewis, and was not happy about it. Apaprently he...
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The Conference at Cambridge

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I had a good time at Cambridge with my paper presentation, which I came out fairly nicely; I didn't get into a whole lot of complicated ...
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Victor Reppert
I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
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