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Atheistic Moral Realism?
Via exapologist, a paper by philosopher Erik J. Wielenberg which is essentially a response to various theistic criticisms of atheistic moral realism (or, more precisely, “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”) His view is that there are ethical brute facts, which are metaphysically necessary and require no grounding or justification.
I read the paper quickly, mostly because I… more »
What Is a Mind?
Christianity differs from non-religious philosophies not only in what it says about God, but also in what it says about mankind. According to (most) Christians, men have souls, free will, and other things that cannot be explained by science alone. Most atheists, on the other hand, would say that everything about humanity can, by and… more »
The Criterion of Modernity
People have all sorts of objections to Christianity and to the Bible, ranging from the very reasonable to the not-so-reasonable. Some are philosophical, some scientific; others are historical or moral.
All, however, are modern.
We all would like a more modern Christianity, would we not? So many problems arise because Christianity appears simply outdated. The Bible is… more »
Secular Reductionism
Atheism’s just simpler, isn’t it? No spirits, no souls, no angels, no miracles, no God: just Dawkins’ “blind physical forces” operating the same way on everything, always and everywhere. God is a redundancy, a violation of Occam’s Razor, a hypothesis of which we (like Laplace) have no need. Right?
Modern science has regularized our view of… more »
Divine Epistemology
This summer, I thought a lot about the problem of foreknowledge and free will. If God knows what we’re going to do beforehand – as certainly seems to be the case – how can our actions truly be described as “free”?
There is far too much to say about this problem in one blog post, and… more »
People, Ideas, and Motives
(Update: My friend CDK has reminded me that C.S. Lewis wrote an essay some time ago that discusses many of the points I seek to address here.)
A couple years ago, I got into a discussion with a non-Christian friend about the historicity of the Resurrection. When I recommended a few books on the matter, my… more »
Our fault.
Recently I have become interested in the history of science, particularly of biology, and my wanderings in that field have led me in countless surprising and interesting directions. I have learned, for example, that the whole science of evolutionary biology owes its existence to the first primitive herbalists, that the invention of the microscope was… more »
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