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Think about the Calvinist doctrine of predestination (or deterministic versions thereof). According to that view, before the foundation of t...

Determinism is not inconsistent with the cruel treatment of criminals. What it is (perhaps) inconsistent with is the generous treatment of c...

• If there is no God, if death ends everything, then there are people for whom it is accurate to say that they will be happier if they do w...

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Soft and hard determinism are the same kind of determinism. The difference is that hard determinists say that since determinism is true, we ...

A local megachurch, Christ's Church of the Valley, had their Easter service at University of Phoenix Stadium. It featured a discussion ...

On Nov. 22. 1963. So did a couple of other famous people.

Let me make something clear. There are ways on the atheist side of keeping things civil. Before I ran into new atheists I had many, many, re...

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OK, suppose you think that religion really does harm, and we really have to do what we can to stamp it out. Most of us don't have the op...

When people find that certain ideas are really important, they may be tempted to kill people for them. These ideas can be religious, but th...

Let me clarify something. I make a sharp distinction between a legal concept of marriage and a moral one, or a religious one. There may be r...

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OK, has matter and energy always existed?  In this lecture, I would like to discuss whether time itself has a beginning, and whether it wi...

The boy has said the emperor is naked, has he? Of course, to the scientifically untrained eye, the emperor no doubt looks naked. But those ...

A redated post. Perhaps the most enduring of Aquinas's Five Ways has been the argument from contingently existing things, the third wa...

No, some of them are gays who don't what to be put in an institution, the institution of marriage. Here. 

CM: I don't know who apologists think they're fooling when they step forward and try to solemnly, double dog declare that imagining ...

By the choice thesis I mean the claim that sexual orientation is chosen, that someone can make a choice which results in their being gay or ...

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