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The argument from reason is a name applied to an argument, or a group of arguments, which attempt to make a case against a naturalistic phi...

Here.  HT: Steve Hays

I like this quite a lot, and I didn't know about it, so thanks, Crude.

This is a definition of intelligent design by Jay Richards of Discovery Institute. ID proponents argue, on the basis of public evidence, d...

Here.  I'm always glad to see people of different stripes developing this. Also, Hasker's contributions to the argument are extrem...

Here. 

Here.  The fundamentalism of "The Fundamentals" is not what you saw at the Scopes trial.

This is treated here. 

John, I knew you would fall for this. You are obviously deliberately missing my point. What I mean by ridiculous is that it can be made ...

I just thought of something. I can listen to someone mock my beliefs, in fact I can even mock them myself, and not find any reason whatsoeve...

Here.  "[Y]ou cannot expect the foundations of western civilisation to crumble and leave the rest of the building intact. That is wha...

This is the original thread. But you have to realize that in the atheist community today, following what I call the Dawkins model, any k...

They may be driving some people back to God.  Of course, not doubt this is because they were never real atheists in the first place. ...

Well, I would have thought so, but I am starting to wonder. Are we moving toward a society bifurcated on religious grounds, where believers ...

This contains a discussion of the T. D. Weldon incident.

As a musical accompaniment to this discussion, I am linking to the Louvin Brothers' rendition of the traditional hymn "Almost Pers...

Here. A redated post.

The thread is here.  That gets down to some very basic issues in epistemology. I did my doctoral work at a highly secular university ...

If we succeed in passing on our genes to the next generation, have we succeeded in life? If we fail to do so, have we failed in life? From a...

Some people question whether one could find personal extinction desirable. But C. S. Lewis seems to have.  How far was this pessimism, thi...