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The Deadly Sin Of Reification! Day Three
Zeno Phobia Counting day. How many ways can you skin a cat if the number of sharp versus dull knives is this and such. Simple stuff, easy to get the…
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Richard Carrier’s Argument To Show God’s Existence Unlikely Is Invalid And Unsound
In the comment section to an earlier piece of mine on Strange Notions, Richard Carrier invited me to "interact" with him through his article "Neither Life nor the Universe Appears…
Posted inCulture Philosophy
Could A Virgin Birth Ever Really Happen?
In an article Salon mistitled "About that 'immaculate' conception"1---the immaculate conception speaks of St Mary's entry into the world, not Jesus's---Daniel Engber, a developmental neuroscientist at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, gives us…
Posted inPhilosophy SAMT
Summary Against Modern Thought: How Through Reason We’ll Prove God’s Existence
See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. This is the last of the necessary but, it must be…
Huffington Post Gives Helpful ‘To Do’ List To Pope Francis
I didn't finish the 'What Statistics Really Is' post so you have to settle for this. After (I imagine) completing a rock-solid thirty minutes of intense theological studies and drawing…
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Are We Hard-Wired for Faith? Guest Post by Bob Kurland
Bob Kurland is a "retired, cranky, old physicist." This article originally ran in modified form at Reflections of a Catholic Scientist. "Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart…
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Which God Are You Rejecting? David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God, Part I
The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by David Bentley Hart. A good joke A joke which many atheists think clever goes like this: (speaking to a theist) "You reject…
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Something From Nothing: Or, A Heavenly Fish Sandwich
So I was sitting on the porch by the lake reading a piece by Trent Horn on the first premise of the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God,…
