Reading Time: 4 minutes How many of your favorite Bible contradictions are in this list? This time, it’s two versions of Ten Commandments, creation, and Flood stories + resurrection and Jesus changing the plan.
creation
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Organic material found in T-Rex fossils: Evidence of young earth?
Reading Time: 4 minutes T-rex soft tissue has been found inside dinosaur fossils that are tens of millions of years old. How do biologists respond to this embarrassing finding?
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God Is Unfair – An Accident of History and Geography Syllogism
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am about 21,000 words into a new book I decided to write last week, which is fun. The working title is something like 25 Arguments against God and Other Metaphysical Assumptions or 25 Arguments against God, Satan, Heaven, Hell and Other Incoherent Ideas. Anywho, you are my testbed. The context of this argument/chapter is the […]
Posted inEthics and Morality, Meaning & Purpose
Doubting the Lessons from Doubting Thomas: Responding to Dave Armstrong Again
Reading Time: 5 minutes I started off this debate the other day with a short piece about the unfairness of the distribution of evidence as exemplified by the Doubting Thomas episode in gJohn. Catholic Dave Armstrong replied, and I duly responded. I then finally found a comment in one of my threads, by Dave, that actually dealt with my […]
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Genesis & Cosmology: A Debate
Reading Time: < 1 minute Skydivephil has created, with his wife through the eponymous YouTube channel, some staggering good videos on cosmology, having interviewed pretty much most of the leading cosmologists in the world (from Guth to Vilenkin, Hawking to Penrose). He has also contributed to a chapter in a book I was also commissioned a chapter to write in […]
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Craig’s Reformulated Kalam & CosmicSkeptic: Free Will and Other Problems
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is the third and final instalment of the critically acclaimed philosophical trilogy looking at criticising the Kalam Cosmological Argument. In this video, I look to continue my commentary and then go back to look at William Lane Craig’s pitiful defence of the idea that God could “choose to create”, “make a decision ” and […]
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William Lane Craig and Heaven
Reading Time: 4 minutes Recently, I wrote a few pieces on heaven with reference to William Lane Craig and how he has made claims about front-loading people who would reject Jesus (God using his Middle Knowledge to work this out) into those who, as it turns out with creation, never get to hear about him anyway. In other words, […]
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God’s Divine Foreknowledge, His Culpability and the Problem of Evil
Reading Time: 6 minutes God’s divine foreknowledge has recently raised its interesting head over the last few comment threads and I thought it would be interesting to return to the subject again. I’ll start with a quote from a commenter here, found on their Miscellanea Agnostica blog: The [reconciliation of “the problem of evil”] most apologists use is the […]
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Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Adam & Eve
Reading Time: 2 minutes Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great writers had been involved in the production of […]
Posted inThe Secular
Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Creating Imperfectly
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great writers had been involved in the production of […]