Posted inPhilosophy
Do Most People Enter Philosophy Already Atheist?
I am now only months behind in answering emails. I have a string of excellent questions from readers that I will try to get to at weeks' end. From reader…
Posted inPhilosophy
The So’s Yer Old Man Fallacy
For the closing days of summer, I am posting every chapter of the first edition of Everything You Believe Is Wrong. My enemies ravaged the first edition, inserting typos galore…
Posted inPhilosophy
Hell & Heaven Are Real — Act Accordingly
I went to my first ever Russian Byzantine Catholic mass on Sunday, and very much enjoyed among other things the priest's homily, which---miracle!---did not shy away from the key message…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Bishop Barron and Ben Shapiro Chat About Salvation
Atheists reject Christ in the sense that they deny Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead because he is God. Atheists also therefore reject the idea of eternal life…
Posted inPhilosophy
The Myth Of Physicalism — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Physicalism is an extreme form of materialism that says that only physical entities exist. This differs from more moderate forms of materialism like property dualism or emergentism where immaterial entities…
Posted inPhilosophy
There Can Be No Consistent Atheist System Of Morality Or Ethics
The article "Jaws and the Meaning of Life" has resulted in much commentary and email. Also a lot of confusion. In that article I said "If life can be reduced…
Posted inBook review Philosophy
The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski
A modified version of this article ran 14 April 2008. There are a recent number of books seeking to either demonstrate, scientifically, that God does not exist, or to show…
Posted inPhilosophy
Jaws and the Meaning of Life
Stream: What the Atheist Claim of the Meaninglessness of Life Would Mean (If it were True) Links fixed! There is a scene early on in the killer-shark movie Jaws which…
