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Maybe not. Mr. Beinart, thanks so much for being with us. Thank you. We often tie secularism to young people and to tolerance. Is that mi...

Someone on Secular Outpost tried to explain away my arguments by saying I was just looking for reasons to hold onto my religion. I called t...

This part is incomprehensible to me: It is not the abstract propositional content of, say, the statement of modus tollens that constrains ...

KP: My claim is that the realization (cognitive sense) of, say, the cogency of Draper's argument, is realized (non-cognitive sense) in t...

What does it mean to say that you were persuaded by the argument from evil that God does not exist? Let us say, at one point, that you beli...

People who follow politics are inclined to think that any and all issues are a matter of whether you are left or right. If you are left, you...

Here , by David Baggett.

Terence Horgan was one of the developers of supervenience theory as a way of developing a nonreductive materialist theory. I read his writin...

SP: -You passed over the nature of the psychological event. How does a psychological event occur? A psychological event is a brain process, ...

An interesting essay on supervenience by Lynch and Glasgow .

Emergent properties are deeply problematic. They either are reducible to physical states or they supervene on physical states. Is there a pa...

Jim Slagle on abortion and the straw man fallacy. Here. 

KP: Thanks for your patience. You have been over this territory many times before, I am sure, but something basic is dividing us, and, with...

Dear Dr. Craig I am writing you because I am quite in desperation. The church in which I have been a member all of my life has turned int...

First, when people try to define the physical, they do it, in part, by conceiving the mental and then saying that what is basic to the univ...

The Bible is primarily about salvation history, the idea that it God loves us, that nevertheless we are very very flawed because our wills ...

I'm not begging the question when I say mental acts cannot be physical acts. A brain is what? An arbitrarily defined collection of p...

Science education is NOT an example of following the argument where it leads. If you do a chem lab and your results differ from those pre...

The problem with the Bible as a moral guide is that the Bible is addressed to social situations which change. Just one example, given what ...

 Erik Wielenberg defends a robust moral realism compatible with atheism. However, for him, moral duties are causally inert. Since I was tal...