The Anatomy of the Response
For a lot of years, I’ve spent time, here and there, debating whatever seemed interesting on blogs and forums. In that time, I’ve seen a lot of back-and-forth interchanges and I’ve noticed that, much of the time, people …
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Ethics and Objective Morality
Well, folks, it’s time for another look at what I call philosophical theory, or the nuts and bolts of philosophy, those ideas and concepts and frameworks that are basically the prerequisite for proper philosophical …
The Problem of Evil Part 2
The Intuitive Problem of Evil While the logical problem of evil can be evaluated on the basis of a deductive argument, the intuitive problem is a little trickier. On the one hand, it can be expressed much more simply: …
How an Atheist Doesn't Quite Use Logic
The following post is a response to this article over at Debunking Christianity: Hi, Robert. I read your post and see that you’ve sought what appear to be two main goals. First, a positive presentation of the atheistic …
The Problem of Evil Part 1
One of the major issues that all Christians face is the problem of evil. In this series, I hope to shed some light on what is probably the most common reason why people don’t believe in God. Whether it’s called the …
Philosophy and the New Atheism
In the last few years, atheism has seen a resurgence in the West, inspired in part by a handful of books written by the “new atheists”, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett. Here, I’d …