By: Stuart|25 February, 2011|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: Argument . atheism . Augustine . evolution . Frank J Tipler . Howard Van TIll . John D Barrow . theism
Stuart argues that, if true, evolution offers us good reasons to believe in the existence of God, rather than His non-existence.
Read more »By: Stuart|15 May, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Science|Tags: Argument . Epistemology . evidence . justification . logical argument . Philosophy of Science . verificationialism . Worldview
Stuart looks at the claim that logical arguments are not evidence and unpacks the evidential value of philosophical arguments in our investigation of reality.
Read more »By: Stuart|27 April, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: agnosticism . Argument . atheism . christopher hitchens . debate . God . presumption of atheism . Reason . Reasonable Faith . Reggie Finlay . theism
Atheism has traditionally been defined as the belief that God does not exist. In recent years there has re-defining of the term to be merely a “psychological state of being without a belief in God.” Has the so-called Atheist really escaped the need to make arguments to justify their position?
Read more »By: Stuart|22 March, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: Anthropological argument . Argument . Augustine . C. S. Lewis . Christianised Anthropological Thought . existential . God-shaped vacuum . Logic . Natural Theology . Reason . Stacie Orrico . Tom Hanks
In this post a specific anthropological argument for God’s existence is stated and defended, and then examined if it is a good and convincing argument.
Read more »By: Stuart|24 February, 2010|Categories: Philosophy of Religion|Tags: Argument . atheism . evidence . God's existence . Philosophy . Reasonable . theism
Stuart anticipates and challenges three possible responses to his critique of the atheistic argument from the absence of evidence for God’s existence.
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