Victor Reppert on Atheist Responses to Moral Arguments
Commenting on how atheists have responded to William Lane Craig’s moral argument, Victor Reppert writes this. Yet, when I hear atheists talking about moral arguments, they always assume that the advocate of the moral argument is saying that we have to believe in God to lead moral lives, (and indignantly argue that we don’t have … Victor Reppert on Atheist Responses to Moral Arguments
Confessions of a Multiverse Skeptic
Okay, the title of my post is a little misleading. A more accurate, but less catchy, title for my post would be, “Confessions of a Skeptic of the Multiverse Objection to the Fine-Tuning Argument.” Whew! Just trying saying that five times fast! On a serious note, I’ve mentioned before that I am not convinced by … Confessions of a Multiverse Skeptic
LINK: “But Theists Do It Too: An Objection To Plantinga’s EAAN” by Jimmy Licon
Abstract: In this paper, I present an objection to Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalism called the theistic parity reply. Since traditional theism holds there is a great deal about the thoughts/intentions of God that is unknown to his creations, it could be that God desires that his subjects lack doxastic reliability for some good, unknown … LINK: “But Theists Do It Too: An Objection To Plantinga’s EAAN” by Jimmy Licon
The Best Argument for God’s Existence: The Argument from Moral Agency
Continuing my theme of summarizing arguments about God’s existence inspired by the writings of Paul Draper, this time I have chosen to summarize an argument for God’s existence, the “argument from moral agency.” Draper’s full argument may be found in his paper “Cosmic Fine-Tuning and Terrestrial Suffering: Parallel Problems for Naturalism and Theism.” (The link … The Best Argument for God’s Existence: The Argument from Moral Agency
A Key Assumption of TASO
In Chapter 8 of The Existence of God, 2nd edition (hereafter: EOG), Richard Swinburne defends two teleological arguments for the existence of God. The second argument he calls the Teleological Argument from Spatial Order (TASO):1. The laws and boundary conditions of the universe are such as to make probable the evolution of human bodies.Therefore:2. God exists.Swinburne … A Key Assumption of TASO
20+ Questions for Theists
(This post was last edited on 21-Jun-12, by reorganizing the list into a more logical sequence. I apologize in advance for the inconvenience this may cause to people who have posted comments or their own articles discussing these.) As a follow-up to my last post, I compiled a list of my own questions for theists. … 20+ Questions for Theists
Swinburne’s Teleological Argument from Spatial Order
In Chapter 8 of The Existence of God, 2nd edition (hereafter: EOG), Richard Swinburne defends two teleological arguments for the existence of God. The first one he calls the Teleological Argument from Temporal Order (TATO). The factual premise of TATO is that a universe governed by simple natural laws exists. The second argument he calls the … Swinburne’s Teleological Argument from Spatial Order
20 Loaded Questions
Peter Saunders has compiled a list of 20 questions for atheists. “He says he did not post these claiming atheists do not have an answer to these questions, but that there have not been any decent responses to them in the past 40yrs” (italics mine). It’s one thing to say the responses were not persuasive; … 20 Loaded Questions
Swinburne’s Case for God – Part 5
The first phase of Swinburne’s case for God is in his book The Coherence of Theism, where he argues that the sentence ‘God exists’ is a meaningful declarative sentence that makes a coherent statement. The middle section of this book covers his concept of a ‘contingent’ God, which is basically the God of traditional theism … Swinburne’s Case for God – Part 5
Swinburne’s Case for God – Part 4
Does the utterance of the words ‘God exists’ amount to a meaningful utterance? Does this utterance express a statement? Two considerations support the claim that this is a meaningful utterance:1. ‘God exists’ is a grammatical sentence.2. The word ‘exists’ has an established meaning. The main question to consider is whether the word ‘God’ has a … Swinburne’s Case for God – Part 4