My review of the Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology

A couple months ago, I wrote a review on Amazon of the Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, a book Luke was quite enthusiastic about. The review promised a more detailed review at my blog, which I’ve sort of realized I’ll never get around to, but here’s the original:

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Craig on the teleological argument

This post is a continuation of the discussion of Craig’s arguments for the existence of God that I began here.
William Lane Craig, Dembski’s explanatory eilter, and anti-evolutionism
I titled the post as a whole “Craig on the Teleological Argument,” but partly this has to be a discussion of Craig and the Intelligent Design movement, since Craig [...]

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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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Avatarand weird human impulses

I’m really late to the “explaining the meaning of James Cameron’s Avatar” game–I saw it over winter break, then got absorbed in other “fun winter break things,” then got absorbed in the re-start of grad school. But here it goes: First, yes, Avatar is indeed pretty, so much so that I disagree with the people [...]

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Why Fight Club is better than Choke (review)

Lots of writers put out a great novel early in their career and go downhill from there. The reasons are hard to pinpoint, admitting of only the most general explanations: Maybe it’s because humans are only allotted one book’s worth of truly good ideas for fiction, and after that it’s repeat yourself or dip into [...]

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