The Atheist’s Guide to Reality
The following is the unabridged version of a review published in the Christian Research Journal 36:3 (2013). Thanks to CRI for permission to post it here. Christian philosophers have been developing...
View ArticleNot Many Were Wise
Every so often a scientific study appears purporting to show an inverse correlation between intelligence and religiosity; in other words, the smarter you are, the less likely you are to be religious....
View ArticleMind and Cosmos
My review of Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos has been posted on the Reformation 21 website. Also check out: Nagel’s own summary of the book’s core argument Alvin Plantinga’s review in New Republic Ed...
View ArticlePlantinga Drains Russell’s Teapot
Alvin Plantinga on Russell’s teapot, from a 2014 interview by Gary Gutting: G.G.: You say atheism requires evidence to support it. Many atheists deny this, saying that all they need to do is point out...
View ArticleAtheism, Amoralism, and Arationalism
Atheism and Amoralism On April 1, 2010, ethicist Joel Marks sat at his computer and wrote a confession to the readers of his column “Moral Moments” which had been a regular feature in the magazine...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on the Lowder-Turek Debate
I recently watched (or rather listened to) the debate last December between Jeffrey Jay Lowder and Frank Turek on whether naturalism or theism “better explains reality”: Overall it was one of the...
View ArticleOn Fairies and Gardeners
I’ve been revisiting Richard Dawkins’ best-seller The God Delusion in preparation for an apologetics class I’ll be teaching next week. On opening it up, I fell upon the dedication “In Memoriam” to...
View ArticleA Conversation with Tom Jump
Tom Jump is an atheist who posts conversations with philosophers and theologians on his YouTube channel. I accepted his invitation to discuss whether there’s reason to believe in God, and here’s how it...
View ArticleThe Best Defenders and Defenses of Atheism?
Who are the best defenders of atheism? Where can one find the strongest defenses of atheism? I get asked those questions from time to time, and they’re good questions, so I’m going to offer my own...
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