Brooke Alan Trisel: Intended and Unintended Life
Abstract: Some people feel threatened by the thought that life might have arisen by chance. What is it about “chance” that some people find so threatening? If life originated by chance, this suggests that life was unintended and that it was not inevitable. It is ironic that people care about whether life in general was … Brooke Alan Trisel: Intended and Unintended Life
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”
Richard Carrier’s Does the Christian Theism Advocated by J. P. Moreland Provide a Better Reason to be Moral than Secular Humanism?
Carrier refutes Moreland’s claim that theism offers more and better reasons to live a moral life than atheism or secular humanism. LINK
(ex-apologist) A Euthyphro to Craig’s Argument Against Atheist Significance, Meaning, and Purpose
LINK I noticed this argument and found it worth sharing:
ex-apologist: A Quick Euthyphro Dilemma Reply to Craig’s Argument Against Atheistic Meaning and Purpose
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LINK: Gianluca Di Muzio on Theism and the Meaning of Life
Abstract Theists are inclined to assert that human life would be meaningless if there was no personal immortality and God did not exist. The present paper aims to evaluate the truth of this claim. The author first explores the conception of meaning that is at the roots of the theistic position. After pointing out some … LINK: Gianluca Di Muzio on Theism and the Meaning of Life
LINK: Mikael Stenmark on Evolution, Purpose, and God
A number of biologists maintain that the recent developments in evolutionary biology have profound implications for religion, morality and our self-understanding. The author focuses on the issue whether evolutionary biology has any relevance for a religious understanding of the meaning of life. First, the question about the meaning of life is clarified. Second, the argument … LINK: Mikael Stenmark on Evolution, Purpose, and God
Atheism and the Meaning of Life
I would like to add a bit more to my earlier discussion of the charge often made by theistic apologists that life must be meaningless for atheists: An argument frequently deployed in popular attacks on atheism is the claim that atheism makes life meaningless. Without God, without a transcendent source of meaning and purpose, human … Atheism and the Meaning of Life