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"Forget the Old Bluffer"

Christian apologists regularly teach variations of the principle "Nonbeing cannot produce being." According to my notes, the late Norman...

The Scourge of the Kalam Argument

Again. I know it's a popular book and not a scholarly tome, but I just noticed that William Lane Craig cited a curious statement in Lee...

The Hume Haters

In my last post, I explained how Dinesh D'Souza's primary attack on Hume failed. In this post, I will backtrack slightly and then go on...

Hume 1 D'Souza 0

In "Insuppressible Fallacy-mongers," I wrote, "A. J. Ayer, influenced by Hume, 'developed his principle of empirical verifiability.'" I...

Unreasonable Faith?

Since the Kalam Cosmological Argument is being shared on social media by “everyday people,” it’s time to inquire into how the argument...

Whack-a-Mole Apologetics

If you are an American, you are probably familiar with the game "Whack a Mole". Going on Facebook Atheist pages, I am reminded of the...

Notes on the Soul

Note: According to Bertrand Russell, "Beyond its importance for natural science, atomism also gave rise to a new theory of the soul. Like...

Did I Get it Wrong?

Note: Ironically, I embraced C. S. Lewis's position on "preconceptions" when I wrote Stubborn Credulity. As I wrote in the subsequent...

Speculations on Time

Note: I think Engels was incorrect about the possibility of the unchanging transitioning from an unchanging state to a changing state. We...

Speculations on Naturalism

The fact of Jesus' existence, according to the worldview of [redacted], would not prove the supernatural or the paranatural. For example,...

Notes on Mythicism

Did Jesus exist? Nearly a century ago, Edward Carpenter wrote, "[A]s to the person of Jesus, there is no certainty at all that he ever...

Notes on Richard Dawkins

It may be an understatement to say that [redacted] leaves readers with a false impression. Consider Paul Davies' words on this subject:...

Notes on Fine-Tuning and Creationism

According to Paul Davies, in the traditional religious approach to the questions of "the cosmic arrangement, it is usually supposed that...

Notes on Pascal's Wager

Disclaimer: If some of the following seems offensive, keep in mind that some of the authors cited are assuming arguendo "We are …...

Notes on the Kalam Argument

Does the Kalam Cosmological Argument presume that God never began to exist? [redacted] thinks so. He wrote that it "proves" God's eternal...

Where it all began

My first writing on religion is presented unredacted below. What surprised me were the Notes which follow the attempt at an essay. With...

Environmental Adoption Notes

At least one critic has accused C. S. Lewis of not understanding the theory of Evolution. He or they may have had passages from Mere...

The "Argument from Reason" Speculations

Several years after C. S. Lewis passed away, G. E. M. Anscombe, the philosopher who caused him to retract an early version of the...

Rethinking the Criterion of Dissimilarity

Commenting on the Bible verse "But of that day and hour [of the Apocalypse] knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven,...

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