Jason Thibodeau offered this comment in response to my article, “Homosexuality, Academic Freedom, and the Swinburne Controversy”: “A good person, seeing that his worldview has committed him to claiming that a group of people are defective just because of the kind of person that they are attracted to, takes this as a reason to question […]
natural law
Reading the Bible informed by conscience
In “A review of “God or Godless”, inerrancy, and begging the question” I defended myself against a reviewer of God or Godless who opined that I had made a “major mistake” in my theology by rejecting the doctrine of inerrancy. I pointed out that I don’t reject inerrancy, though I do reject indefensible articulations of […]
The case of the miraculous eclipse
In the midst of our ongoing discussion of miracles the creatively named Physicsandwhiskey (henceforth P&W) pressed me on my equivalence of “miracle” with whatever passes through the design filter: “If someone prayed for an expected eclipse to occur in order to convince people of God’s power, and it occurred, would that be a miracle? It […]
Could God again command the killing of infants and children for a greater good? A critique of William Lane Craig
This is my eleventh installment of my ongoing critique of William Lane Craig’s podcast “Richard Dawkins and Driving Out the Canaanites.” (Yes, there is an end in sight. One final installment and I’m done.) For the tenth installment click here. This time around we join the podcast at 16:56 as Craig explains the unique nature […]
Why God can’t intervene in natural law
In the article “Invisible Gardener, 100 percent natural” I pointed out that a person could be more or less warranted that God orchestrated a particular event like a purported answer to prayer. To the extent that the event evinces a specification of circumstances (e.g. suggestive temporal proximity, highly structured form specified to the circumstances), a […]
Are you unreasonably closed to an open marriage?
It all started when I asked: “would I stigmatize the lifestyle of a couple who are in an open marriage? Darn right I would.” Ray Ingles, incredulous, challenged me to defend that position: “what’s the case for it being bad in your moral framework? (I.e., start from premises, through intermediate conclusions, to the conclusion that […]
Welcoming an Atheist to the Worldview Interrogation Room
I recently asked Shawn the Atheist to explain and justify his worldview commitments to atheism. He kindly obliged. His brief statement of belief and defense is available here. In what follows I will be interrogating that statement. For ease of reference I have rendered all quotations from Shawn in the same candy apple red as […]
Three theses on devotional child killing
The article I presented at the Atlanta SBL meeting, titled “‘I want to give the baby to God’: Three theses on devotional child killing” is now available! This is the biggest release since Gran Turismo 5! So to read and/or download the paper you can click here or go find it in the “Academic Papers” […]
