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Does God Exist?
On April 8, 1966, Time magazine carried a lead story for which the cover was completely black except for three words emblazoned in bright, red letters against the dark background: “IS GOD DEAD?” The story described the so-called ‘Death of God...
God and Abstract Objects
Platonism What is platonism? Platonism is the ontological thesis there exist mind-independent, abstract entities. This characterization raises the question of what it means to be abstract. Metaphysicians take the distinction between concrete and abstract to b...
Navigating Sam Harris' <em>The Moral Landscape</em>
A great merit of Sam Harris' recent book The Moral Landscape is his bold affirmation of the objectivity of moral values and duties. To say that moral values and duties are objective is to say they are valid and binding independent of human opinion. For exa...
Apologetics Ministry - Advice to Christian Apologists Part 2
2. Apologetics ministry - Earn a doctorate in your area of specialization. This may not come as welcome advice to some of you. But popular apologetics alone will not do the job. Popular apologetics may sway the uneducated, but it will not change the prevaili...
Is Uncertainty A Sound Foundation For Religious Tolerance?
Introduction There is abroad in the Christian philosophical community a view, rarely articulated and defended, but nonetheless widespread, that the proper foundation for religious tolerance is to be found in one's uncertainty that one's own particular...
Failure
I have been a Christian for over thirty years. I estimate that in my Christian lifetime I have attended upward of a couple of thousand church services, hundreds of chapels at Wheaton College, and scores of Christian meetings at retreats, conferences, and so on...
How Can Christ Be the Only Way to God?
Introduction I recently spoke at a major Canadian university on the existence of God. After my talk, one slightly irate co-ed wrote on her comment card, “I was with you until you got to the stuff about Jesus. God is not the Christian God!” This a...
<em>The Grand Design</em> — Truth Or Fiction?
The Grand Design and Philosophy Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow open their book The Grand Design with a series of profound questions: What is the nature of reality? Where did all this come from? Did the universe need a Creator? Then they say, “Trad...
The Challenge of History: An Interview with William Lane Craig (<em>Australian Presbyterian</em>)
Why is history so important to the Christian faith? History is crucial to Christianity because it keeps the Christian faith from degenerating into mythology. Unless the Bible is rooted in actual historical events, there is no reason to think that Jesus of Naz...
<em>36 Arguments for the Existence of God</em>: Goldstein on the Cosmological Argument
I must confess that I don’t have the patience to read books like this nor do I find them entertaining. As a philosopher I want premises and supporting arguments without having to sift the philosophical wheat from the chaff of a popular fictional narrativ...