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William Lane Craig, God and Evolution

January 26, 2013 by Randal

Earlier this week T’sinadree asked me to respond to William Lane Craig’s response to a question about evolution at “Reasonable Faith.” You can read the question and Craig’s response here. The question comes in the form of a challenge from Michel of Germany who argues that God would not have created through evolutionary processes. Michel’s […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: creation, Darwin, evil, evolution, Neo-Darwinism, providence, suffering, William Lane Craig

Will love win in Newtown? Reflections on an unspeakable tragedy

December 29, 2012 by Randal

It has been said that we’re all separated by a maximum of six degrees of introduction from every other person on this globe. In the case of the Newtown tragedy, I’m separated by but two steps. My mother knows Rob Charach, the principal of Linden Christian School in Winnipeg, MB. And Linden is the school that was […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, God, hope, Newtown, suffering

What in hell is going on? A Review of Sharon Baker’s “Razing Hell” (Part 1)

July 5, 2012 by Randal

Sharon L. Baker. Razing Hell: Rethinking everything you’ve been taught about God’s wrath and judgment. Westminster John Knox Press, 2010. 222 pp. ISBN: 0664236545 Make sure you get the title right. We’re not talkin’ about raising hell as in some good ole’ boys going cow tipping in the moonlight. No, we’re talkin’ about razing hell as […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: eternal conscious torment, evil, hell, Razing Hell, Sharon L. Baker, theodicy

“The Lovely Bones,” and why Roger Ebert will not like a film version of “The Shack”

October 29, 2011 by Randal

This article was originally published at The Christian Post in January 2010. Film critic Roger Ebert clearly did not like the film adaptation of Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones. While I haven’t read the book or seen the movie, I certainly found Ebert’s review revealing. Ebert is one of the most interesting film critics to […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, providence, Roger Ebert, The Lovely Bones, The Shack, William Paul Young

Pedophiles and rock stars: A reflection on “The Woodsman”

April 16, 2011 by Randal

“The Woodsman” opens with convicted pedophile Walter (Kevin Bacon) returning home after a twelve year stint in prison. Not surprisingly, he finds that his entire support network has evaporated. After all, who wants to be associated with a pedophile? But how blurred the criteria of social condemnation can be. In the late eighties the glam metal band “Winger” had […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, Kevin Bacon, original sin, pedophilia, Roger Ebert, The Woodsman

I want to know what evil is

November 24, 2010 by Randal

The critics never liked Foreigner much, but then their mullet-wearin’ Camaro-drivin’ fans never liked the critics much. And really, who could resist the infectious drive of an arena-grade power ballad like “I want to know what love is”? Although Lou Gramm may have been asking what love is, I think he had a reasonably good […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: divine command, ethics, evil, moral skepticism, moral virtue, morality

On being skeptical of the skeptics

November 7, 2010 by Randal

In “Surely you can’t be serious” I wrote that “The evil of the cannibal seeking to eat Jim is, to put it bluntly, a metaphysically necessary truth.” Brenda responded: “Well, that is a claim. One you have not proved must be true. I don’t see how you can ‘prove’ that cannibalism is necessarily wrong the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, moral objectivism, morality, rape, Rwanda, synthetic a priori

Torture Porn and Human Nature: An All Hallow’s Eve Meditation

October 31, 2010 by Randal

This weekend “Saw 3-D” came out on top at the box office. No surprise. It is a well established horror film franchise. I’ve never seen any of the Saw films, but I get the general idea: line people up to be tortured and killed in a series of grisly, sadistic and extraordinarily creative ways. The Saw […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, I spit on your grave, Roger Ebert, Saw 3-D, The Human Centipede, torture porn

Rape as objectively evil

October 31, 2010 by Randal

In my last post I stated that rape is objectively evil and any worldview that cannot count for this fact suffers accordingly. Alexander responded with a refreshing dose of dramatic bravado: “Not so, Randal Rauser! According to Randy Thornhill, rape is actually an evolution of a ‘genetically advantageous behavioral adaptation’ and, in that context, not inherently evil.” This […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, genocide, morality, rape, Romeo Dallaire, Rwanda, Sam Harris

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