Letters to Doubting Thomas (a review)

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 [...]

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Pigliucci on accomodationism

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 [...]

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Luke’s reply

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.

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Luke on reformed epistemology and moral realism

In his blogging, Luke of Common Sense Atheism has made some fairly harsh, and largely unexplained, swipes at reformed epistemology (Alvin Plantinga’s project of trying to show we can accept Christian doctrine without any argument or evidence for doing so), saying things like “reformed epistemology is neither” and that it is a “Candidate for ‘Dumbest [...]

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What exactly is an angel?

Stephen Law reports on a radio encounter between a skeptic and a vocal advocate in angels, in which the skeptic proposed that we would have objective evidence of angels if we found under controlled conditions that those who claimed to communicate with angels had gotten information they could not have gotten in any other way. [...]

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