Israel, Palestine, and Terror
(This is content is a bit tangential to secularism issue, but it is not entirely unrelated, so I hope I’ll be forgiven for posting it here.) Prof. Jerry Cohen’s chapter from my book Israel, Palestine, and Terror is available on-line here. I think it’s one of the strongest pieces in the book. My own contribution … Israel, Palestine, and Terror
ex-apologist: J.L. Schellenberg’s New Website
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The Moral Laws Require a Moral Lawgiver Argument
Consider the following argument. (1) If God does not exist, then there is no divine lawgiver.(2) If there is no divine lawgiver, then there are no moral laws.(3) If there are no moral laws, then there are no moral obligations.(4) Therefore, if God does not exist, then there are no moral obligations. Why should we … The Moral Laws Require a Moral Lawgiver Argument
ex-apologist: Lovering on Immoral Theistic Belief
Lovering, Rob. “On the Morality of Having Faith that God Exists“, Sophia 51:1 (2012), 17-30. Abstract: Many theists who identify themselves with the Abrahamic religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) maintain that it is perfectly acceptable to have faith that God exists. In this paper, I argue that, when believing that God exists will affect others, it … ex-apologist: Lovering on Immoral Theistic Belief
Doug Geivett: Paranoid Atheists, Take Note
I discovered this old post on Christian philosopher Doug Geivett’s blog. He mentions a book by John Mickelthwaite and Adrian Wooldridge, God Is Back: How the Revival of Religion Is Changing the World. According to Geivett, the book “is a kind of protest against the excesses of paranoid atheism.” From the description, the book does … Doug Geivett: Paranoid Atheists, Take Note
Church of England Rejects Female Bishops
One of the comments at the following link pretty much sums it up: I find it amusing that a woman can be the Queen of England and the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, yet a woman cannot be a Bishop in that same church. LINK
Guy Kahane: Value and Philosophical Possibility
Abstract: Much seems to be at stake in metaphysical questions about God, free will or morality. One thing that could be at stake is the value of the universe we inhabit—how good or bad it is. We can think of competing philosophical positions as describing possibilities, ways the world might turn out to be, and … Guy Kahane: Value and Philosophical Possibility
Matt McCormick’s NPR Interview
A great interview from NPR.
Keith Burgess-Jackson: Alvin Plantinga on the New Atheists
As an atheist philosopher, Keith Burgess-Jackson is not impressed by Richard Dawkins’s use of contempt to attempt to win “converts” from theism to atheism. LINK
J. Brian Pitts: Why the Big Bang Singularity Does Not Help the Kalam Cosmological Argument for Theism
Abstract: The cosmic singularity provides negligible evidence for creation in the finite past, and hence theism. A physical theory might have no metric or multiple metrics, so a ‘beginning’ must involve a first moment, not just finite age. Whether one dismisses singularities or takes them seriously, physics licenses no first moment. The analogy between the … J. Brian Pitts: Why the Big Bang Singularity Does Not Help the Kalam Cosmological Argument for Theism