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Swinburne and Homosexuality: A Response to Jason Thibodeau

October 7, 2016 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: dialogue, ethics, homosexuality, Jason Thibodeau, natural law, Richard Swinburne

Reading the Bible informed by conscience

November 15, 2013 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bible, general revelation, hermeneutics, inerrancy, inspiration, Martin Luther, moral perception, natural law

The case of the miraculous eclipse

May 15, 2013 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: miracle, natural law, science

Could God again command the killing of infants and children for a greater good? A critique of William Lane Craig

March 11, 2013 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: canaanite genocide, ethics, natural law, Old Testament, William Lane Craig

Why God can’t intervene in natural law

July 9, 2012 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, divine action, God, natural law, naturalism

Are you unreasonably closed to an open marriage?

May 2, 2012 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, morality, natural law, open marriage

Welcoming an Atheist to the Worldview Interrogation Room

February 10, 2011 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, epistemology, natural law, naturalism, science, worldview

Three theses on devotional child killing

November 25, 2010 by Randal

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” […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Dena Schlosser, divine command, ethics, genocide, herem, moral epistemology, natural law

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