"Forget the Old Bluffer"
Christian apologists regularly teach variations of the principle "Nonbeing cannot produce being." According to my notes, the late Norman...
Christian apologists regularly teach variations of the principle "Nonbeing cannot produce being." According to my notes, the late Norman...
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...
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...
In "Insuppressible Fallacy-mongers," I wrote, "A. J. Ayer, influenced by Hume, 'developed his principle of empirical verifiability.'" I...
Since the Kalam Cosmological Argument is being shared on social media by “everyday people,” it’s time to inquire into how the argument...
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...
Note: According to Bertrand Russell, "Beyond its importance for natural science, atomism also gave rise to a new theory of the soul. Like...
Note: Ironically, I embraced C. S. Lewis's position on "preconceptions" when I wrote Stubborn Credulity. As I wrote in the subsequent...
Note: I think Engels was incorrect about the possibility of the unchanging transitioning from an unchanging state to a changing state. We...
The fact of Jesus' existence, according to the worldview of [redacted], would not prove the supernatural or the paranatural. For example,...
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...
It may be an understatement to say that [redacted] leaves readers with a false impression. Consider Paul Davies' words on this subject:...
According to Paul Davies, in the traditional religious approach to the questions of "the cosmic arrangement, it is usually supposed that...
Disclaimer: If some of the following seems offensive, keep in mind that some of the authors cited are assuming arguendo "We are …...
Does the Kalam Cosmological Argument presume that God never began to exist? [redacted] thinks so. He wrote that it "proves" God's eternal...
My first writing on religion is presented unredacted below. What surprised me were the Notes which follow the attempt at an essay. With...
The Booklife page for "Insuppressible Fallacy-mongers" can be found below. I hope to make one for Stubborn Credulity soon....
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...
Several years after C. S. Lewis passed away, G. E. M. Anscombe, the philosopher who caused him to retract an early version of the...
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,...