Philosopher Antony Flew has a new book out titled There Is A God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind. But what’s interesting is that he didn’t write it–Christian apologist Roy Abraham Varghese did. Today’s New York Times has the fascinating and disturbing story about how some evangelical Christians have exploited an aging … Antony Flew’s new book

CNN reports that the Church of Scientology is partnering with Christian churches in low-income areas to offer free tutoring (and indoctrination in L. Ron Hubbard’s “study technology”). This is actually not a new development–Scientology has long partnered with a number of pastors of Baptist churches to promote its “Applied Scholastics” program, such as Rev. Alfreddie … Scientology offering “Hubbard study tech” to low-income Christian churches

I’d normally ignore it as too crazy even for creationists, but I’ve encountered this argument more than once lately. It’s the notion that the existence of “the laws of logic” requires a transcendent divine authority—a version of the eye-roll-inducing “Transcendental Argument” favored by the likes of the late Reconstructionist Greg Bahnsen. For example, as creationist … Logic implies God?

Here’s a snippet from the end of Paul Kurtz’s lead editorial/article in the last Free Inquiry: I am astonished by the fact that six books on atheism have been published by five authors (Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and Victor Stenger) to such vitriolic comment in the press. . . Incidentally, … The “Sixth Horseman”

My mind is on intelligent design today, probably because I’ve just started teaching about it in my science-and-pseudoscience course. Anyway, the ID people are pushing Antony Flew hard, because he’s out with a new book There is a God, and because it’s always nice to be able to highlight a major convert to your cause. … Flew interview

A very common charge against creationism and intelligent design is that not only is this bad science, but also bad theology. I’m not entirely comfortable with this. Yes, academic theologians are much less likely than, say, televangelists, to attack evolution. Being able to point to theologians who accept evolution is very useful in the political … Bad science, bad theology?