Category Archives: G. E. Leibniz

Craig on the Ontological and (Leibnizian) Cosmological Arguments

Recently, I’ve been looking over the third edition of William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith, as well as the textbook he wrote with J.P. Moreland, Philosophical Foundations of a Christian Worldview. One thing these books have that’s missing from a lot of Craig’s works is an attempt to defend, in some detail, arguments that he usually [...]

Breathtaking historical ignorance watch

From a recent Newsweek column, via Jerry Coyne: But this version of the conversation [the version represented by Harris, Dawkins, and Hitchens--ed.] has gone on too long. We have allowed three people to frame it; its terms—submitting God to rational proofs and watching God fail—are theirs. But this approach to discussing religion far pre-dates Harris. [...]