Month: November 2012

Paul Draper’s Chapter, “Christian Theism and Life on Earth”

Keywords: Christian theism and life on earth; arguments against Christian theism, CT and IN; comparing Christian theism (“CT”) to “indifference naturalism”; IN, a form of naturalism and CT, supernaturalism; evolution, on special creationism as false; implication of God’s “rationality,” creating a universe; theistic objections to special creationism; methodological naturalism, in the physical sciences; IN and Paul Draper’s Chapter, “Christian Theism and Life on Earth”

Interesting Reference to The Empty Tomb

Since the resurrection is the central event of Christian history, Plantinga at the very least should make the effort to weigh the evidence for and against this event. Swinburne believes the evidence is quite high that the biblical accounts of the resurrection are literally true; others who have investigated the matter sharply disagree.[35]———————–[35] See, for Interesting Reference to The Empty Tomb

A Red-winged Blackbird

My daughter is a freshman philosophy student who is currently writing her second-ever essay in philosophy.  The topic is Descartes Meditations.  We have been discussing the deceptive god and evil genius skeptical arguments for the past week.  So, my disagreement with Stephen Law about the relevance (or irrelevance) of the Kalam cosmological argument to the A Red-winged Blackbird

Atheist Prayer Experiment

Justin Brierley reviews the results of an experiment in which atheists pray for 40 days for God to reveal himself to them. Go here. Thanks to The Atheist Missionary for drawing attention to this on twitter. This is a win-win experiment to set up for the purposes of evangelizing of course. Reasons why you should Atheist Prayer Experiment