How can we go about persuading better in debates about religious beliefs? ProfMTH develops and, in some cases, rightfully disagrees with ideas from Jennifer Faust: Your Thoughts?
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Category Archives: Arguments Against The Existence of God
On God As The Source Of Being But Not Of Evil
July 9, 2010 – 11:15 amIntroduction This post is a long one but an important one for understanding what sophisticated Roman Catholic philosophers have traditionally meant when they have said that “God is good” and that the existence of evil is not to be taken as counter-evidence to their belief in God’s goodness. Very often we atheists are dismissed as [...]
30 Preposterous Things You Need To Believe To Be A Christian
July 7, 2010 – 6:00 pmJohn W. Loftus, the former minister turned atheist, author of Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity, and the primary blogger at Debunking Christianity (whose updates you can follow daily in our blogroll feed) has a terrific summation of 30 extraordinarily unlikely ideas, at least most of which most Christians would have to [...]
The Cosmological Argument, The Composition Fallacy, And More Reasons Not To Believe In God
July 3, 2010 – 4:29 pmShane Wilkins, a graduate student in philosophy at Fordham (where we were fellow students and colleagues until just recently), has been an invaluable regular commentator at Camels With Hammers. He has served as my primary theistic foil since the beginning, when our 7-part debate (which started with my post Objections to Religious Moderates and Intellecuals 1) propelled this [...]
6 Basic Kinds Of Answer To The Question “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?”
July 1, 2010 – 5:58 pmGuest Contributor Eric Steinhart is an associate professor of philosophy at William Paterson University and the author of More Precisely: The Math You Need To Do Philosophy, On Nietzsche (Wadsworth Philosophers Series), and The Logic of Metaphor – Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds (Synthese Library, Volume 299). Abstracts to his papers on the philosophy of [...]
Beyond Agnosticism: More Details About How I Know Various Kinds Of Gods Do Not Exist, Based On Scientific And Philosophical Reasons
June 30, 2010 – 11:41 amWhile I agree with, and vigorously defend, the notion that there is an important difference between lacking a belief in gods (as an agnostic atheist) and believing there are no gods (as a gnostic atheist), I also think that atheists should not, based on the best available scientific evidence and philosophical arguments, merely lack belief [...]
No, I’m Not An Atheist By Faith, Here Are My Arguments.
June 29, 2010 – 10:46 amYesterday Ron Rosenbaum aggressively attacked atheism and defended agnosticism in Slate. He starts out with the familiar charge that atheists have “faith”. But faith in what? Atheists display a credulous and childlike faith, worship a certainty as yet unsupported by evidence—the certainty that they can or will be able to explain how and why the [...]
Rejecting The Question, “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?”
June 28, 2010 – 7:26 pmPZ Myers calls attention today to a post from Sean Carroll from a couple of years ago, which reminds me in part of some of my own thinking about the confusion in the question of “why there is something rather than nothing?”. I had a Thomist philosophy professor who impressed upon me that for Aquinas [...]
Christopher Hitchens Vs. Laura Ingraham & Doug Wilson
June 20, 2010 – 9:08 pmThey start talking after an opening minute of some Gospel Bob Dylan: Your Thoughts?
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