Craig on the Ontological and (Leibnizian) Cosmological Arguments
March 8, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under G. E. Leibniz, William Lane Craig, metaphysics, people, philosophy, religion
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 [...]
Continue Reading »William Lane Craig is… er…
March 5, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under William Lane Craig, people, philosophy, religion, stupidity
… a poor hermeneuticist. Let me leave it at that, since I’m about to reviews my Secular Web review of his book, and Keith Augustine (the SecWeb library editor) thinks being important is polite.
What prompted this post is seeing how, in his essay for the anthology God is Great, God is Good, Craig that this [...]
Letters to Doubting Thomas (a review)
March 1, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, reviews
When Lukeprog posted his Ultimate Truth Seeker Challenge, I read over his reading list and saw that it was mostly books I had already read. But I put my name down anyway, because I figured the books I hadn’t read would be a good way to round out my philosophy of religion reading, and reviewing [...]
Continue Reading »Pigliucci on accomodationism
February 22, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under epistemology, philosophy, religion, science
Massimo Pigliucci has decided to weigh in on the debate over accommodationism that has been happening in the atheist blogosphere for forever now, coming down on the side of the accomodationists. Unlike Mooney and Nisbet, Pigliucci is clear that he’s interested in matters of philosophical principle, not tactics. (Mooney and Nisbet, in contrast, may well [...]
Continue Reading »Theists: how do you make sense of omnipotence?
February 13, 2010 by Chris Hallquist
Filed under philosophy, religion
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 any [...]