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Thursday, December 14, 2023

Eighteen Facts (Pt. IV)

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The theme of the last three posts has been that if we employ the principle of inference to the best explanation to the question of the exist...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Eighteen Facts (Pt. III)

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Continuing the case for theism as the best explanation for the evidence available to us, let's consider the next four examples of that e...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Eighteen Facts (Pt. II)

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Yesterday's post introduced the concept of inference to the best explanation and eighteen facts about the world and our existential huma...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Eighteen Facts (Pt.I)

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Among the indictments of religious believers registered by skeptics is that belief in God is at best irrational and at worst pernicious. The...
Saturday, December 9, 2023

What Jews Have Contributed to the World

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I recently posted on the absurdity of calls for a boycott of anything connected to American or global Jewry. Today I want to continue excerp...
Friday, December 8, 2023

Proper Disagreement

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Reading about Wednesday night's GOP debates in which the candidates vied for the privilege of being the runner-up to Donald Trump for t...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

Most of the Money Stays Here

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There are a lot of people who are upset about all the aid we're giving to Ukraine, especially in as much as the war effort against the R...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism

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The recent protests against Israel in general and specific Jews in particular raises once again the question of the distinction between ant...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Brilliant Feats of Micro-Engineering

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I show this video to some of my classes because it's so well done. Drew Berry is an animator who creates computer generated animations o...
Monday, December 4, 2023

Two Amazing Animals

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It's been said that the fact that someone cannot imagine how nature can accomplish some amazing feat or other is not a reason to think t...
Saturday, December 2, 2023

How the Left Actually Supports Bombing Civilians

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A lot of people are outraged that the Israeli military operation in Gaza has reportedly killed thousands of civilians. Many on the left are ...
Friday, December 1, 2023

What Is a Soul?

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Usually when people talk about the soul and life beyond the death of the physical body they draw looks of incredulity and even scorn from fa...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Theism, Naturalism and Universals

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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, borrowing from a book by philosopher Ed Feser, argues that the reality of universals poses a serious problem fo...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

A Philosopher Considers Cosmic Fine-Tuning

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The physicist Bernard Carr once declared that "if you don't want God you better have a multiverse." What he meant is that the ...
Tuesday, November 28, 2023

A Question Concerning Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators

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Given that the official, elected government of the Palestinians in Gaza is Hamas, and given that it is Hamas's stated purpose to annihil...
Monday, November 27, 2023

The Limits of Free Speech

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Steven Hayward at PowerLineblog argues that free speech is not an absolute right. The founding fathers never intended that speech that aims...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

A Follow-up Christmas Suggestion

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Yesterday I urged readers to consider my novel In the Absence of God (2012) as a Christmas gift for friends and family and mentioned in pas...
Friday, November 24, 2023

A Modest Christmas Gift Proposal

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Is there someone on your Christmas shopping list you think might enjoy reading a novel which blends philosophy, religion, and a tense crime ...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

The Pilgrims' Voyage

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Every year since 1961 the Wall Street Journal has been running an account of the departure of the Pilgrims from Holland for the New World w...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

On Gratitude

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The Thanksgiving holiday which Americans observe tomorrow is a beautiful celebration, not least because it reminds us of the importance of g...