The validity of the classic trilemma argument for the divinity of Jesus, famously employed by Lewis in Mere Christianity is explored here.
Read more »By: Bnonn|05 February, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Religion
A quote from William Hasker, a philosopher of religion, on the support for thoroughgoing scientific naturalism as a worldview which can be “proved to all reasonable people”.
Read more »By: Stuart|02 February, 2009|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: atheism . Bertrand Russell . evidence . God . Natural Theology
The following is taken from a friendly email that was discussing the evidence for the existence of God. The presumption of atheism and the case for God’s existence is discussed with respect to the Bertrand Russell’s famous teapot objection.
Read more »By: Stuart|31 December, 2008|Categories: Philosophy of Religion
An outline of the Kalam Cosmological Argument as it is defended by Dr. William Lane Craig, which is one of the most power and convincing proofs for the existence of God.
Read more »By: Stuart|30 December, 2008|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: Leibniz . Natural Theology . Sufficient Reason
“The first question which should rightly be asked is this: why is there something rather than nothing?” Based on the principle of Sufficient Reason G.W.F. Leibniz formulated the following cosmological argument for God’s existence.
Read more »By: Stuart|30 December, 2008|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: Composition . Contingent beings . Existential Causality . Natural Theology . Thomas Aquinas
A brief outline of the Thomistic Cosmological Argument from Existential Causality, two possible refutations are considered, and a brief look at what we could deduce about God if the argument is successful.
Read more »By: Stuart|18 December, 2008|Categories: Philosophy of Religion . Philosophy of Science|Tags: An Inconvenient Truth . Carbon Dioxide . climate change . Communism . Global Warming . Hoax . Humanism . Leighton Smith . scientism . Uniformitarianism
If the Global Warming cultural phenomenon is not sustained by science, the question is what is sustaining it? Why has it gathered so much momentum? Some suggestions are made. As a case study of the interaction between science and religion, it is very interesting. Some further resources are given.
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