Recently in correspondence with non believer I have repeatedly meet with the following argument. This is usually touted as a kind of self evident mantra. [1] There is no proof that God exists [2] Its irrational to believe something unless you have proof . Therefore: [3] belief in the existence of God is irrational. Now […]
Entries Tagged as 'Philosophers'
On Believing Without Proof: Some reflections on Faith and Reason
September 24th, 2007 2 Comments
Tags: Apologetics · Faith and Reason · William Alston
Abortion and Capital Punishment: No Contradiction
August 2nd, 2007 1 Comment
This blog post has been published in Think: A Journal of the Royal Institute for Philosophy 6 (2008) 87-92, which is a journal of Cambridge University. One argument I frequently hear is that opposition to feticide, the killing of a human fetus, is inconsistent with support for capital punishment. Some times this argument is pushed even further. […]
Tags: Abortion · Alvin Plantinga · Beverly Harrison · Capital Punishment · Ethics · Feticide
Caricature at no god zone
August 1st, 2007 Comments Off on Caricature at no god zone
As a person who studies theology and philosophy I have, over the years, read some brilliant skeptics; John Mackie and Paul Draper come to mind. I also have become reasonably informed about the debate over theism in the literature. Consquently, I have a good idea when the issues are being caricatured. Unfortunately rebuttal of a […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Hell Pizza · Libertarianism · William Alston
The Dawkins Delusion
July 31st, 2007 35 Comments
A friend sent me this this morning: This is great, witty satire. I particularly like the parody of Dawkins’ “Who made God” argument. Dr Terry Tommyrot addresses the question of whether science can explain the existence of Dawkins’ books without postulating the existence of an intelligent author, Richard Dawkins. Tommyrot asks, “If Dawkins designed this […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Atheism · Humour · New Atheists · Richard Dawkins · Terry Tommyrot
The Meta-Ethical Argument for Christian Theism: A Response to Richard Chappell
July 3rd, 2007 15 Comments
if we ask what God would have commanded in counterfactual situations we will get contradictory answers.
Tags: Divine Command Theory · God and Morality · Richard Chappell · Robert Adams · Thomas Carson
What’s Wrong with Whaling?
February 17th, 2007 3 Comments
With governments refusing to help ships that engage in it and ‘peace’ activists apparently willing to ram ships to prevent it, one assumes that whaling is a grave moral evil. It is, apparently, obviously so. Unfortunately, I fail to see why. How is killing a whale any different from fishing for marlin or shark or […]
Tags: Abortion · Peter Singer · Whaling
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
