Horia George Plugaru: The Argument from Physiological Horrors (2003)
This was recommended to me, but I haven’t read it yet. Please feel free to debate in the combox. P1: If human beings: (1) would produce extremely disgusting, abhorrent, horrible, pestilential, totally ugly results, (2) those results would be due to no fault of their own, (3) assuming that (some of) those results would help … Horia George Plugaru: The Argument from Physiological Horrors (2003)
Cage-Fighting Pastors for Jesus
Apparently this is a thing. LINK
Link: Why Science Cannot Explain Why Anything At All Exists by Luke Barnes
Physicist and cosmologist Luke Barnes wrote an interesting post in his blog a while ago about why science cannot explain why anything at all exists. I’m inclined to agree with him. Here is how he summarizes his own argument in his own words. A: The state of physics at any time can be (roughly) summarised by … Link: Why Science Cannot Explain Why Anything At All Exists by Luke Barnes
Links Do Not Constitute Endorsement
This is just a very quick post to remind readers that when I post links, my doing so does not necessarily mean I endorse the link unless I explicitly say that I do. I would have thought this was obvious but apparently I’m going to need to state this on every post going forward in … Links Do Not Constitute Endorsement
Link: Darwin’s Argument from Evil by Paul Draper
Draper’s chapter was published in Yujin Nagasawa (ed.), Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan. 49 (2012). It’s available online for free courtesy of Google Books. LINK
Link: Intended and Unintended Life by Brooke Alan Trisel
I am quoting the abstract of Trisel’s paper here, without comment pro or con, for interested readers who may wish to read the paper for themselves. Feel free to debate in the combox. Abstract. Some people feel threatened by the thought that life might have arisen by chance. What is it about “chance” that some people find … Link: Intended and Unintended Life by Brooke Alan Trisel
Link: Why the Argument from Causal Closure Against the Existence of Immaterial Things is Bad
I am quoting the abstract of this paper here, without comment pro or con, for interested readers who may wish to read the paper for themselves. Feel free to debate in the combox. Abstract. Some argue for materialism claiming that a physical event cannot have a non-physical cause, or by claiming the ‘Principle of Causal Closure’ to … Link: Why the Argument from Causal Closure Against the Existence of Immaterial Things is Bad
Whitcomb’s Grounding Argument for Atheism and Reply by Rasmussen et al
I am quoting the abstract of these papers here, without comment pro or con, for interested readers who may wish to read the papers for themselves. Feel free to debate in the combox. Whitcomb’s argument for atheism: Abstract I’m going to argue that omniscience is impossible and therefore that there is no God. The argument turns on … Whitcomb’s Grounding Argument for Atheism and Reply by Rasmussen et al
LINK: What is a Physical Object? by Ned Markosian
I am quoting the abstract of this paper here, without comment pro or con, for interested readers who may wish to read the paper for themselves. Feel free to debate in the combox. Abstract: The concept of a physical object has figured prominently in the history of philosophy, and is probably more important now than it has ever … LINK: What is a Physical Object? by Ned Markosian
Religious Trauma Syndrome
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