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Kant maintained that what we know about the world around us can only be about the way the world appears to us, not the world as it is in it...

Here.  We will not pursue that dispute here except to note that even if the case is made that ID could not count as proper science, which ...

Here.  1.   There is no evidence for God’s existence. There is at least one major problem with this line as it is typically presented...

The definition of faith is as complicated one. Lots of people study the issue of religion, but no one can examine every parameter of the iss...

Why are mental states not states of the brain? Well, what is a brain, after all? A brain has to be described as a set of particles. No in...

The point about the theon is simply this. You are trying to define naturalism. I maintain that I really have nothing at stake in calling wha...

My AFR argument is perfectly clear on the kind of naturalism that it is attacking. It makes a distinction between mentalistic and non-mental...

Well, how do you define the physical, or the natural? I would have no problems whatsoever if, for example, the Apostle's Creed were true...

I am not sure that dualism is an empirical question. The implications of materialism might be such that, if materialism were true, no one wo...

Here.   On the intolerance of tolerance. HT: Bob Prokop

Here.  1.        Consider this assertion:  Nothing exists but those things with which science can experiment .  Do you believe this beca...

If it is unconstitutional to establish a religion, then it might sometimes be important to determine whether something is a "religion...

Some people seem to have the strange idea that God really exists for the people who believe in God, but does not exist for atheists. No side...

Here.   My opponent is David Kyle Johnson.

As many of you know, Bob Prokop and I go back a long ways, to our days as ASU undergraduates in the mid-seventies. We were members of a scie...

Isn't ethics just the business of determining which moral beliefs are right or wrong? Foreign cultures practice 1. Female Genital Mu...

I want to say, for the record, I think people like Jeff do an enormous service to the whole community of dialogue. It was at his invitation ...

You start with a greater good and a higher purpose, and then you buy in on the idea that the end justifies the means, and if they believe in...

Here. 

Believers often look at the atheist demand for evidence, as presented by typical atheists, as a shell game.  I went over this issue with t...