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A redated post. The is from Mark Nelson's paper Naturalistic Ethics and the Argument from Evil,' Faith and Philosophy, vol. 8, no....

This is a Vallicella post about Rosenberg's denial of intentionality. You have to wonder how he avoids that conclusion that, since no st...

Parbouj has been making the complaint that Lewis, and those like myself who make use of his philosophical ideas, conflate atheism with mater...

The reductio requires that you establish that a particular conception of goodness is essential to Christianity. I think it's a mistake ...

A redated post. My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? ...

If Bnonn is right in this essay, Gandhi is not the saint he was cracked up to be. I suppose few "great" people are quite what th...

A redated post. C. S. Lewis on Pride: The Great Sin I first read Mere Christianity when I was 18 years old. At the time, I was between my...

A redated post.  It seems to me that the Republican leadership, while calling itself conservative, is prepared to abandon conservative pri...

This is another way of posing the question I asked about embryonic stem cell research a few posts back.  Frank: The abortion issue, of cou...

Ilion, let's try to unpack your claim here. I: Meanwhile, Prokop and his fellow leftist partisans *do* believe in, and *do* agitate fo...

Whenever I look at the arguments in the embryonic stem cell research debate, a question always arises in my mind. If taking the stem cells f...

ADC wrote: I'm more concerned with is how a particular candidate views the use government's monopoly on force. Will it be constra...

This is a youtube video of a presentation given by Skype to the Belfast Reasonable Faith society.

Some people say that the problem with Clinton was not that he had an affair, but that he lied about it. But what do you think about people ...

Darek Barefoot wrote a defense of the AFR against Carrier. This is Ben Schuldt's response.

One of the central ideas in religious morality is the idea of a commandment. It is sometimes said that they are the Ten Commandments, not ...

This is an oldie but a goodie, from Tektonics. It is certainly possible to change your brand of fundamentalism.

There are two aspects of evolution that raise issues for religion. One is the obvious conflict between the theory of evolution and the tradi...

This is a response by Carrier admirer Ben Schuldt to an early response of mine to Carrier. He uses the fallacy of composition charge against...