The ultimacy and decisiveness of reason is itself just as vulnerable as the existence of God. That one ought to “justify” one’s thought is to me just another religious-like commandment. If someone does not buy into the god-level authority of reason, especially pertaining to universal and ultimate domains of predication themselves, there is no possible […]
Entries from January 8th, 2011
God and Other Unquestioned Authorities
January 8th, 2011 118 Comments
Tags: Authorities · Faith and Reason
God and the Genocide of the Canaanites Part I: Wolterstorff’s Argument for the Hagiographic Hyperbolic Interpretation
January 7th, 2011 42 Comments
Around this time last year I wrote two posts Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites I and Joshua and the Genocide of the Canaanites II. These posts attracted a fair amount of attention and debate. I got offers to publish my ideas in several upcoming books and present them before both the Evangelical Philosophical […]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga · Canaanites · Genocide · Hagiography · Hermeneutics · Hyperbole · Joshua · Kenneth Kitchen · Nicholas Wolterstorff · Old Testament Ethics · Selection
Moving Beyond CS Lewis?
January 6th, 2011 28 Comments
CS Lewis still provides a great read and he has been an important figure in my own journey of working out my faith. But I cringe a little when, as repeatedly happens, Christian people hear I’m into philosophy and science and such and they recommend I read the author of the Narnia books. I’ve been reading […]
Tags: Church · CS Lewis · Narnia · Philosophy of Religion
An Atheist and a Christian walk into a Bar… Original Sin & the Existential Paradox
January 5th, 2011 30 Comments
My previous post, William Lane Craig, Original Sin and Original Guilt, touched on the doctrine of original sin. According to the standard western articulation of this doctrine it has three components. First that human beings have a propensity towards doing wrong. Second, this propensity is inherited from our ancestors, it is not that we come […]
Tags: Atheist · Edward Oakes · God and Morality · John Hare · Moral Gap · Original Guilt · Original Sin
False Alarm: Falsificationism and its Misapplication
January 4th, 2011 21 Comments
A fair number of people are fond of the claim that if one is to be able to take a claim seriously, it really ought to be falsifiable. One easy response is that it’s difficult to see how this particular claim, about how we are to go about accumulating knowledge and believing stuff, is itself […]
Tags: Falsificationism · Friedel Weinert · Karl Popper · Philosophy of Science · Science and Religion · Scientism
MandM and Friends UPDATED
January 3rd, 2011 16 Comments
Recently we placed an advertisement on Facebook for contributors to MandM. We were looking for people with some training in analytic philosophy who are careful, articulate and interesting writers who can contribute to MandM in a complementary style to ours. Those we have chosen to add to our team should bring some variety to our […]
Tags: André Z · Andrew · Machine Philosophy
Navigation Issues
January 3rd, 2011 4 Comments
We have developed a technical malfunction which is causing some fairly major site navigation issues. We added a new page and suddenly the site developed a redirect loop to the new page – all you got when you clicked on Home or tried to load our domain was the new page. Deleting the new page […]
Tags: Tech Problems
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
