This article is a quick follow up to my article “On believing God (or Santa Claus) doesn’t exist” in which I critique Jack David Eller’s essay “What is Atheism?” Four years ago I reviewed another essay by Eller in John Loftus’ volume The Christian Delusion. Eller’s essay was a mishmash of rhetorical gobbledygook bereft of […]
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Finding Divine Signs: A response to Jonathan Pearce
In chapter 17 of God or Godless I argue “God best explains the miracles in people’s lives.” It should be stressed by “miracle” I don’t mean “a violation of natural law” or “an event with no secondary cause” or anything else of that sort. Rather, I mean something like this: that for a subset of […]
What a coincidence! An exercise in worldview analysis
The other day my daughter set about looking for her copy of Fablehaven (a best-selling book of children’s fantasy lit) when she realized that she’d left it in my car. Since I was gone at the time she headed into her room and picked another book to read from among the approximately two hundred titles […]
Did a fairy kill Stephen Law’s apple tree?
Brad asked Stephen Law: “I think you presented probably the most cogent and succinct case that an atheist can give in a debate, but why should I rationally assent when you have no alternative accounts of the universe, design, morality, or the resurrection?” Stephen Law replied: “Does the fact that I can’t explain why my apple tree […]
The most amazing thing imaginable
I asked Jerry to explain what he means by “the most amazing thing imaginable”. He replied: By “the most amazing thing imaginable” I mean God as the omnipotent omniscient deity that has been posited as the explanation for everything that exists. In other words, Jerry thinks it amazing that a necessary, maximally powerful and intelligent […]
