Showing posts with label naturalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label naturalism. Show all posts
Monday, December 19, 2016

How Does a Naturalist Justify His Reasoning?

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Given my blog and public profile, I regularly get internet atheists who try to goad me into debate. My primary goal in ministry is to...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

The Irrational Faith of the Naturalist

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Does man have an immaterial soul or is nature and the material world all there is? Atheists deny the existence of the supernatural, but...
Monday, June 06, 2016

For the Naturalist, Why Die for an Idea?

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I'm writing this blog post on June 6, which is 72 years to the day that the Allied forces, led by the United States, invaded the be...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Why Claiming Religion is False Undercuts Darwinism

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According to atheists like Daniel Dennett, religious belief is a falsehood that arose via evolutionary processes. In his debate with Al...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Why Claiming “Belief is a Psychological Crutch” Backfires

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I just had the opportunity to listen to a recent Unbelievable? podcast where Christian biologist Zachary Ardern squared off against Pe...
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Sunday, August 30, 2015

One Quote for Naturalist Professors

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Most naturalists prefer a more subtle approach. Instead of openly insulting Christianity, they patronize it, paying it the kind of com...
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Naturalism and the Problem of Living a Good Life

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Scott Rae, in the introduction to his book Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics , lays out some of the reasons the study of ethic...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Is Morality Grounded in Nature, Utility, or God?

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Just as there are three possible sources for moral obligations (determined, designed, or discovered—see previous video ), there are thre...
Sunday, April 12, 2015

Where Do Moral Values Originate? (video)

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Most people recognize that moral values and obligations are real. However, they disagree strongly on where moral values come from. In th...
Saturday, April 11, 2015

Why it Is Reasonable and Scientific to Consider the Soul

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A 2008 article in the magazine New Scientist by Amanda Gefter criticized several Christian philosophers for rejecting a purely physicalist ...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Can You Be Moral Without Being Answerable to Anyone?

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I've spent the last few posts discussing the concept of morality and some of the necessary ideas that must accompany any explanation o...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

How Can Naturalism Account for Moral Freedom?

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Yesterday, I explained that for ideas like good and evil to make sense, one must hold there are real moral duties and obligations that fa...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Why Naturalism is Simply Unbelievable

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Naturalism is simply unbelievable. I don't mean unbelievable in the fantastical sense, although I do think there's a lot of hand-wa...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Your Mind is Not Your Brain

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Historically, Christianity has taught that human beings are creatures made up of two fundamental kinds of "stuff"—body and soul....
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