This is a guest post courtesy of Joe Hinman, author of God, Science, Ideology (promoted). I wanted to defend my approach to the idea of God’s hiddenness. I see my view working with theodicy is this will look like a presentation of the problem of pain and evil but the real point is to show the efficacy of […]
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Intellectual Humility as Apologetics
This is a guest post by Colin Burgess. Colin is a lay apologist who has been working with Reasons To Believe since 2015, as both a volunteer apologist and an instructor. Colin writes, “It is my goal, as an apologist, to get people thinking about faith, and to help Christians communicate their beliefs more effectively. […]
The Enneagram: A window into the soul or a waste of time?
If you have spent any time in evangelical circles over the last few years, you have likely heard about the “enneagram”. While this personality test has been around for several decades, of late it has grown in popularity among evangelicals through the work of several popular Christian leaders like Richard Rohr and Elizabeth Wagele. But […]
Solomonoff Induction and the Alpha Algorithm
This is a guest post by one of my readers, Mason Green, in which he aims to provide a novel argument for the existence of God within the framework of Ray Solomonoff’s theory of inductive inference. The argument (and the background knowledge it presumes) is outside my field of expertise. But it will definitely be […]
Calvinism as a logical contradiction
This is a guest post by Zeno. It started life as a comment in the discussion for my article “If the God of Calvinism exists, would you worship him?” However, it seemed to me that this comment was of sufficient length, depth, and careful crafting (and carries such delightful terms as “Randal’s burden” and “Randal’s abominable conjunction”) that […]