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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 »
Thoughts on Omnipotence
What do we mean when we say that God is omnipotent? Can an omnipotent being exist?
Some time ago, an atheist friend (who subsequently became a Christian) presented me with a paradox that purportedly disproved God’s existence: “Could God create a stone so heavy that He could not lift it?” If God could, it seems that… more »
Is Ecology Enough?
I recently read a popular science book called Life on a Young Planet by Harvard’s own Andy Knoll. The majority of the book was a decently interesting synopsis of current thought on paleobiology. But because every popular science book must have sappy epilogue (or a sappy prologue, or both), Knoll took a few pages at… more »
A Meditation
Lord, may the fruit of our minds be to the praise of Your glory.
When I think, I think in words and pictures. The words and the pictures must be connected, because sometimes the pictures have something to do with the words or the words have something to do with the pictures. But I’m not sure… more »
The Anti-Revolutionary
When we’re trying to decide how to live our lives, our starting point really does matter. During one of my sections this week, we had a conversation about the stance of French intellectuals toward the mid-twentieth-century struggle for independence in Algeria. Algeria had been a French colony for over a hundred years, with the inevitable… 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 »
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