>>>This is a post on my first-ever brush with serious, academic philosophy of religion in the form of Alvin Plantinga.; I did in fact go to the talk and write about it, though that post actually turned out less interesting. Since then, I have learned that unlike a lot of things Evangelicals say to promote [...]
Category Archives: reposted uncredibility
A philosopher’s influence
Posted by Chris Hallquist on July 4, 2008
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>>>What follows is from my first September of blogging. A fairly trivial post, but since writing it I’ve seen it’s even more true than I originally realized.<<< Tuesday is the day for my philosophy class’ weekly discussion section (at least for my discussion group). Most of our discussion revolved around shades of blue, namely, whether [...]
Reposted uncrediblility: Why our society is secular
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 27, 2008
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>>>This is something I wrote on August 1st, 2005.<<< I’ve made a couple posts giving contradicting angles on where atheists stand in our society. In the first, I argued pop culture, and American daily life in general, is atheistic. In another, I made a joking proposal on improving the image of atheists, but noting that [...]
Reposted uncredibility: exorcising spirits
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 20, 2008
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>>>Another post from my second month of blogging. Probably the last one from that month I’ll post–it’s gradually dawning on me how little of my early blogging was worth much of anything. This is a post I’d write differently if I wrote it today. Largely because of the feelings expressed here, I’ve since sat down [...]
Reposted uncredibility: ID in The Economist
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 13, 2008
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>>>This Friday, I’m reposting something from my /second/ month of blogging. This feels more relevant now than when I wrote it, after contact with people who are totally convinced our current strategies for fighting creationism are on-track. Also, I’ve since talked to college students from very religious areas who report a /much worse/ problem where [...]