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Exactly. In the past, an atheist debate will very often assert that they have no intention of convincing anyone to be an atheist. It doesn...

Here.  Doesn't hatred always have the potential for violence? Why are atheists immune to this?

By Philip Vander Elst. Here .

Is the only religious motive morality the fear of hell and the hope of heaven? Couldn't religion motivate someone to do what is right f...

Dawson Bethrick says yes . Marc Cortez says no .

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Country Singer Kitty Wells makes a religious appeal against a husband who has wronged her. This seems to show a role that religion plays in ...

Basically he says that the criterion refutes itself.  Here.  Plantinga proposes a negative and a positive way of addressing this problem...

John Loftus has been defending ridicule. I wonder if he has seen all the implications of his position.  OK, but consider people like Hold...

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 It is often argued that if you are making the positive existence claim, you have the burden of proof. Thus  1) God exists has the burden of...

Any reason to think it isn't true? One way around this is to shove the burden of proof to the other side. In fact, you can win any deba...

(1) Reason isn’t just pragmatically useful; indeed, it is self-refuting and circular to assert that it is. (2) Reason isn’t a contingent,...

That our sense experience is veridical? That we are not brains in vats and our experience is not systematically false?

If mental states are physical states, then the truth about what someone believes should follow necessarily from the state of the brain/physi...

“Don't be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you've been told them by som...

I think some confusion is generated by his use of the term “reductionism” to describe the naturalistic position of which he is critical. Ma...

I say this as someone who cannot imagine believing what he believes. But even those who cannot accept the theist alternative should admit t...