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If you're gonna believe somethin' then prove it ... or else!
December 30th, 200906:46 PM ETFirst off, something that doesn't relate to anything: I saw "Sherlock Holmes" yesterday. Enjoyable, stylish movie, but also forgettable in a "Star Trek the Reboot" kinda way. I did uncover a blooper but nobody I have told cares. Indeed, they think I need to get a life. Nonetheless I will share it with you all. Ready? (drum roll) There is a modern b... -
Are answered prayers evidence for a providential God?
November 20th, 200909:25 AM ETSkeptics frequently complain at the lack of evidence for miraculous divine intervention in the world today. Philosophers of religion call this the problem of divine hiddenness: if there is a God then why is there not better evidence for him? Why does he so often seem to be hidden? Petitionary prayer is one example. Christians believe in a God ... -
Familiar Fact or Fantastic Folly? On the Relativity of Strangeness (Part 1)
October 14th, 200903:02 PM ETThe notion of argument tends to have a bad connotation today, suggesting to many an image of red faced, outraged people with bulging eyes and flecks of spit flying from their snarling mouths. That is unfortunate since the verb "to argue" comes from a Latin root meaning "to make clear." And making your position clear to people you disagree with se... -
How to show that "God loves me" is false
September 19th, 200911:08 AM ETIn the ongoing discussion on the rationality, justification and knowledge status of Christian belief, one of my readers (gaga) claimed that Christian belief is subpar when compared to sense perception beliefs because the latter are falsifiable while the former are not. If you believe God loves you, there's no way to prove that wrong. Gaga then rep... -
Am I a Christian due to historical accident?
August 24th, 200908:43 PM ETThe charge is a common one. You're a Christian because you were born and raised in North America. If you had been born in India you'd probably be a Hindu. If you had been born in a certain part of Africa, you'd probably be an animist. The conclusion is given by one of my readers, AnAtheist.Net, who charges: "You arbitrarily prefer a belief that is... -
What are those wackos teaching their kids?
August 17th, 200901:07 AM ETMany skeptics today assume that the religious believer who teaches his religion to his children is guilty of a form of cognitive child abuse. For a great example of this reasoning consider the opening of the essay "Viruses of the Mind" where Richard Dawkins describes how he managed to preempt the mental abuse of his own daughter: "I have just disco... -
Why all reason is faithful (even if not all faith is reasonable)
August 03rd, 200910:37 AM ETI want to pick up here where my post "When is a belief rational?" left off. There I argued (following A. Kenny) that reason is found in a proper balance between credulity (willingness to believe) and skepticism (unwillingness to believe). Interestingly, this definition has important consequences for the way we view the faith/reason relationship. T... -
When is a belief rational?
July 20th, 200911:19 AM ETSkeptics of Christianity (e.g. atheists, agnostics) often assume that there is something epistemically sub-par about Christian belief. In many cases the thought is that Christian belief is somehow unjustified or irrational. Indeed, the more uncharitable and undisciplined will even take to calling Christians such incendiary epithets as "insane"... -
Don't think the worst of people
May 22nd, 200911:05 AM ETIn the last couple weeks a few of my posts have generated a fair amount of interest from atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and even a few wiccans. I have been delighted at the exchanges. Unfortunately, it would appear that the Christian Post website crashed on Tuesday. When the dust had cleared more than a day later, all of the comments on my posts af...
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