Showing posts with label existence of God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label existence of God. Show all posts
Thursday, May 14, 2020

How COVID-19 Shows Utilitarianism's Big Flaw

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What grounds morality? We all talk about whether actions are right or wrong, but what is it that makes something right or wrong to begi...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

The Objective Nature of Beauty

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In my last article , I said that we live in a beauty-starved culture and one overlooked aspect of sharing our faith is appealing to th...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Demanding Scientific Proof for the Soul is Like Valuing a Sunset by Its Price Tag

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I recently had a discussion with an atheist on where we debated the reality of the soul. During a Twitter exchange, I had mentioned the...
Friday, March 03, 2017

A Big, Dangerous Universe is NOT Evidence Against God

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The recent discovery of the seven planets orbiting the TRAPPIST star has a lot of folks talking. As I wrote last week , even though th...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Atheists: Thor is not a Rational Substitute for God

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Yesterday, I responded to a common atheist claim that one cannot prove a universal negative. But can one really prove that something d...
Tuesday, February 07, 2017

How to Prove the Nonexistence of Something

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Atheists commonly claim that they bear no burden of proof since one cannot prove a negative. A couple of years ago, I debated Richard ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Can Evolution Produce Objective Morality?

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For the most part, people intuitively understand that moral concepts are real and they produce certain duties and obligations for each...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Why Believing in Miracles is Not Illogical

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When Christians believe in miracles, are they being irrational? A recent Pew Research article entitled "Why America's 'non...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Why a Beautiful Sunset Argues for God's Existence

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Have you ever seen a beautiful sunset or had your breath taken away by a stunning vista? Such experiences leave us with a sense of awe....
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Monday, January 09, 2017

What's the Alternative to the Problem of Suffering?

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One of the biggest challenges Christians face from nonbelievers is why God allows innocent people to suffer. The question is key, espec...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017

Testing for God with Invisible Dragons

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In a recent debate between David Wood and Michael Shermer, Shermer put forth Carl Sagan's invisible dragon analogy to try and claim ...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2017

The Need for Justice and the Problem of Evil

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The search for justice runs through all of storytelling. We watch some nefarious villain executing his evil ploy and we hang on the edg...
Monday, January 02, 2017

The silliness of claiming we were all atheists at birth

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There has been a lot of talk in the past few months about "fake news." Fake news stories are those purported by some web site a...
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Thursday, December 01, 2016

The Intellectual Cowardice behind 'Agnostic Atheists'

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For certain questions, the answer seems so obvious they feel ridiculous to ask. Questions like: "Who's buried in Grant's t...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Five Reasons Why God's Hiddenness is a Good Thing

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"If God exists, why doesn't he make himself more obvious?" I've heard this question countless times from atheists and...
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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Why God Doesn't Create a World with Less Suffering

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Probably one of the most difficult objections a Christian faces to his or her faith is how an all-powerful, all loving God can allow so...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Is Rejecting God a Sign of Rationality or Resentment?

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It is natural to believe in God. The vast majority of people throughout most of history and across all cultures have had some kind of b...