Post tagged with Conversational atheist

  • Truthmakers that keep naturalists up at night

    March 26th, 201001:51 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    Christians are supernaturalists. That is, they believe that there are things that exist which are neither material (where material is understood to encompass both matter and energy) nor supervenient upon the material. (Definitional aside on supervenience: if x is supervenient upon y then x is irreducible to y (it is a new kind of thing) but is non...

  • Were New Testament Christians reliable witnesses, or were they ignorant fools?

    November 18th, 200903:37 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    The idea is frequently invoked to justify a pretty sweeping skepticism against the New Testament accounts of Jesus, including the miracles and resurrection. People back then were uneducated rubes who would believe anything. And if so then we really cannot trust what they said, leaving the status of the New Testament in doubt. Here's what Conversat...

  • Does religion lead to bad parenting?

    October 30th, 200904:07 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    The Case A ten year old girl from Perth Australia named Tamar is diagnosed with advanced liver cancer. According to the hospital, she has a 50-60% chance of survival if she submits to a seven week course of chemotherapy and no chance of survival without it. The parents refuse the treatment for their daughter, opting instead for "natural" cures. As...
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