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This is going to be my first post responding to a question from the “So what do people want me to write about thread?” thread. Today, I’m responding to Andy Scicluna: Actually, Craig Keener is writing a book on miracles, inclusing those infamous africa miracles missionarys often talk about. (http://www.amazon.com/Miracles-Credibility-New-Testament-Accounts/dp/0801039525). It would be nice to [...]

I’m a huge fan of Robin Hanson. I think you should be to. Those facts about myself may provide valuable context for the following post. Anyway… Robin thinks that if we had better IP law, we’d put way more effort into innovation. He’s gotten a lot of criticism for this, I think the most important [...]

Recently, Edward Feser wrote a long blog post calling Jerry Coyne “unserious” and telling Coyne to read Feser’s book Aquinas. This prompted me to go buy Feser’s book off Amazon, but after my initial look at it, I don’t think I’ll be finishing it. The few sections I’ve read basically try to show that certain [...]

Below is the post I was talking about when I talked about doing a follow up to “Philosophy is dysfunctional.” It may not be quite what you expected though, since it’s more personal, and not really about academic philosophy (at least not specifically). If you want more comments on academic philosophy specifically, you should probably [...]

When I saw this post at Daylight Atheism, I had the thought: “wouldn’t it be great to have a very short, all-purpose response to Christian claims about the alleged evidence for the resurrection?” Of course, I think my book fits the bill of being a one-stop resource, but you can’t convince everyone to read an [...]