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The <em>Kalam</em> Cosmological Argument
As a boy I wondered at the existence of the universe. I wondered where it came from. Did it have a beginning? I remember lying in bed at night trying to think of a beginningless universe. Every event would be preceded by another event, back and back into the p...
Has the Multiverse Replaced God?
Several years ago I spoke with Robin Collins, a Christian philosopher who specializes in cosmology, just after his return from a conference on science and theology sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation. “Bill,” he said to me, “When these...
Cosmology – A Religion for Atheists?
p.ind { text-indent:20px; } In the award-winning movie A Theory of Everything Stephen Hawking introduces himself to his wife-to-be Jane by describing himself as a cosmologist. When Jane asks what that is, he replies “it’s a kind of religion for i...
Propositional Truth - Who Needs It?
.sup, .sub { vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; top: -0.4em; } .sub { top: 0.4em; } Central to biblical theism is the conception of God as the only self-existent being, the Creator of all reality apart from Himself. God alone exists a se; everythin...
Perils of the Open Road
PERILS OF THE OPEN ROAD When the course of events can go in more than one direction, given present conditions, does God know which way it will go? Open theists deny that God has knowledge of such “future contingents.” They are prompted in large pa...
Mary Leng's <em>Mathematics and Reality</em>
Mary Leng’s new book is a very thorough and closely argued response from a non-realist perspective to W. V. Quine’s Indispensability Argument for the existence of abstract objects, specifically sets. Incredibly—given its enormous influence&md...
Alvin Plantinga's <em>Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism</em>
Plantinga’s book is a semi-popular treatment of the conflicts, real or perceived, between science and religion, broadly construed. Because these disciplines are so broadly construed, the Christian who is interested in apparent conflicts between science a...
Humanism for Children
HUMANISM FOR CHILDREN The American Humanist Association is currently promoting a new advertising campaign and website that is designed to furnish children with naturalistic or atheistic perspective on science, sexuality, and other topics. The stated goal of t...
The God Particle
The reaction among some atheists to the recent, remarkable empirical confirmation by scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) of the existence of the Higgs boson (AKA “the God particle”) is bewildering. The fact that nons...
God and the Platonic Host
Central to classical theism is the conception of God as the sole ultimate reality, the Creator of all things apart from Himself. This doctrine receives its most significant challenge from Platonism, the view that there are uncreated abstract objects, such as n...