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Monday, June 08, 2026

How should laws against abortion work? How do you prevent collateral damage

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Example 1: If a woman has a miscarriage, should she have to prove that she didn't induce the abortion?  Example 2: A woman's pregnan...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Mascall's Christmas Carol about Bultmann

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  Hark, the herald angels sing: > "Bultmann is the latest thing!" > (Or they would if he had not > Demythologized the lot...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Christian sexual morality and the level playing field.

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  There is something tricky about Christian sexual morality that I am not sure everyone appreciates. People who complain about this morality...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

Is the argument from biblical prophecy a flat Tyre?

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  Here. 
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Wednesday, October 01, 2025

How to decrease illegal immigration

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  If any law-abiding citizen of a foreign country could come here legally in a reasonable amount of time, then there would be far less need ...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

In defense of abortion, by Nathan Nobis

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An argument in defense of early abortion. 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Deductive arguments

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  Actually deductive arguments does not need to be based on facts. It just has to he structured in such a way that if the premises are true,...
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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Free speech is free speech-like it or not

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If you think it’s dangerous for Florida’s legislators to have the power to police speech in public school classrooms, then you should find i...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Hitler's Crib

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  There are cases when what maximizes utility contradicts a principle. What if you are in a position to kill someone you know will do great ...
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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Utilitarianism and tax policy

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  If you raise taxes on the wealthy, you hurt some of those people, though they can afford to lose their thirteenth yacht. But presumably th...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Classroom advocacy

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  I have often noted the disparity between the way in which religious advocacy in the classroom is treated and the way anti-religious advoca...
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Monday, April 07, 2025

A libertarian defense of abortion and infanticide

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  Here.  Yep, infanticide has its defenders.
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AI on whether abortion is cheaper

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Of course you also have the argument that capital punishment is cheaper.   While the costs of abortion and childbirth vary, some argue that ...
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Thursday, April 03, 2025

If materialism true, how is belief based on evidence possible?

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  The title of one of Richard Dawkins’s books is The Blind Watchmaker , but its subtitle is How the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a World wi...
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Craig on the argument from intentionality

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  Here. 
Monday, March 24, 2025

Respect for persons and cultural relativism

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  Belief in respect for persons means that culture does not determine morality, because in many cultures, including our own during the days ...
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Sunday, March 16, 2025

A Christian Defense of Transgender Identities

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  Here . Though I think most transgendering these days is the result of gender ideology and trigger-happy medical professionals who think al...
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Sunday, February 09, 2025

How a skeptical philosopher becomes a Christian.

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Here.  
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Tuesday, February 04, 2025

The causal exclusion problem in philosophy of mind

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 Here.  Tbe heart of most replies to the argument from reason is that a mental event can have both a mental and a physical cause. There are ...
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Monday, January 27, 2025

Not every pro-lifer says abortion is murder.

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  Here. 
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Victor Reppert
I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
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