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Because we can’t help but make choices in those areas. Do we follow one of the world’s established religions, or do we live our lives withou...

It's the Giants and the Patriots in the Super Bowl this time. I think we've seen this one before. Different result this time? Not ...

There are a couple of ways in which defenders of the cosmological argument can develop the argument so as to avoid the consequence of God ha...

A redated post.  Tim McGrew put a couple of responses up to Drange's two arguments against Christian theism, the argument from confusi...

I realize not all of you have access to this online library. Interestingly enough, in Bill Ramsey's treatment of EM in the Stanford E...

This links to a post typical of Loftus these days.  Given this set of responses, do you think real dialogue between believers and nonbeliev...

A redated post. It's my contention that these statements go well beyond the sensible things you might say about religious education, a...

Of course our roads, our police and fire protection, and our educational system are all socialized. They are provided by government, though ...

From Ken Samples. Or, I suppose, you can take the Debunking Christianity challenge . Or, both at once.

A common strategy for providing a physicalist account of intentionality is the attempt to derive intentional content from causal connections...

Does anyone need to ask why?

A redated post. DeeJay wrote, his comments are in bold, mine are not: Hi, I am currently reading your C.S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea. (...

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...