This is a post with a question for the theists who read this blog: Here’s what I believe to be a bad argument against the existence of God: “Could God make a stone so big even he couldn’t lift it? Both answers seem inconsistent with God’s omnipotence, so the idea of divine omnipotence doesn’t make [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Theists: how do you make sense of omnipotence?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 13, 2010
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Is philosophy of religion taken seriously?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 13, 2010
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Lukeprog asks, and tries to answer the question with stats on what people specialize in at top departments. Mike Almeida at Prosblogion replies, asking how that data could be relevant and insinuating that Luke has sinister motives. I think the significance of the data should be pretty obvious: presumably, what people specialize in at top [...]
Medieval fallacies and modern theists
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 11, 2010
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Vic Reppert links to a foolish and arrogant interview with Granville Sewell, the guy who sold Dembski on thermodynamics arguments against evolution (an achievement for which all critics of the ID movement are indebted to him). Here’s the core of the interview: In fact, although this may come as a surprise to our students, mathematicians [...]
Luke’s reply
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 10, 2010
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Luke Prog has replied to my comments on things he’s said about epistemology. If you want to see where this discussion goes, I’ll continue it over at his blog.
Obama Administration: We Can Kill Whoever We Want
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 8, 2010
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The world has officially gone insane. Last week, the Washington Times reported that Obama’s Director of National Intelligence came out and said that the executive branch has no qualms about assassinating American citizens on its own initiative if it thinks doing so would be a good thing for the fight against terrorism. A number of [...]