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Creation and Conservation Once More
Introduction "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1.1). With majestic simplicity the author of the opening chapter of Genesis thus differentiated his viewpoint, not only from that of the ancient creation myths of Israel's neighbo...
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...
Does God Exist? The Craig-Nielsen Debate
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God and the Initial Cosmological Singularity: A Reply to Quentin Smith
Introduction "The most efficacious way to prove that God exists is on the supposition that the world is eternal," advised Thomas Aquinas. "For, if the world and motion have a first beginning, some cause must clearly be posited to account for this origin of th...
Creatio ex nihilo: A Critique of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation
In the co-authored book How Wide the Divide? A Mormon and an Evangelical in Conversation, Mormon scholar Stephen E. Robinson declares that Mormons "do not accept the councils and creeds" of "orthodox" Christianity. However, they "do accept the Bible without it...
Creation ex nihilo: Theology and Science
Introduction “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1.1). With majestic simplicity the author of the opening chapter of Genesis thus differentiated his viewpoint, not only from the ancient creation myths of Israel’s n...
Van Inwagen On Uncreated Beings
Introduction In the opening paragraph of his provocative article “God and Other Uncreated Things,” Peter van Inwagen asks two questions: (1) Is there anything (other than Himself) that God has not created? and (2) Must a Christian take the stateme...
Theistic Critiques Of Atheism
Introduction The last half-century has witnessed a veritable revolution in Anglo-American philosophy. In a recent retrospective, the eminent Princeton philosopher Paul Benacerraf recalls what it was like doing philosophy at Princeton during the 1950s and '...