philosophy

Fallacy of the Day – #1: Ad Hominem

March 30, 2012

I have decided that too many people make mistakes when they claim a fallacy has been committed.  This will be the first installment of what will necessarily become a long list of explanations of what fallacies are what. You have probably been sent here because you have called out a fallacy and were wrong about [...]

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Can God be good if he can’t choose to do evil?

February 21, 2012

People like to say that God is “the good”, but that means that everything God does is good. Nothing he does could possibly be bad, as it is God’s nature to be good. Beyond the question of whether the things God does are good because God does them, or if God is good because he [...]

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Matt Slick’s not so Slick Questions on Morality

June 25, 2011
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Well, Matt Slick is at it again, but what’s new? Matt has put out 36 questions for atheists about standards of morality.  He has also asked them in a YouTube video.  Many of these don’t pertain to my view on morality, many of them are extremely redundant, and many of them are laughable because they [...]

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When is God the most Plausible Answer?

April 7, 2011

Many of the arguments for the existence of God are centered around the idea that there are certain situations where God is more plausible than a natural explanation.  The Cosmological Argument claims that God is more plausible for the creation of everything than any natural explanation.  The Teleological Arguments claim that God is more plausible [...]

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Understanding the Words of Jesus

December 31, 2010

Have you ever wondered how a book, like the Bible, could be the word of God, yet there be so many translations of it? I think most of us have, even believers.  It would seem to me that a book inspired by an omniscient and omnipotent being should be written in such a way that [...]

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The God of Spinoza and Einstein

October 11, 2010

Well, I’ve heard forever about how Einstein claimed to believe in Spinoza’s god, and I have been told that Spinoza was a Pantheist, but I had never read Spinoza’s Ethics, nor had I had many discussions about them.  I am no longer ignorant in that fashion, and it is actually very interesting. Spinoza really put [...]

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How do Intelligent People Believe in God?

October 1, 2010

Well, I have another story from my Philosophy class.  I know everyone is just sitting at the edge of their seats waiting for these, but it was interesting to see someone accept something that apparently goes against their belief system. My professor was going over Thomas Hobbes today.  The text we were going over was [...]

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Omnipotence and Time Paradoxes

September 23, 2010

I know it seems like I’m beating a dead dog here, since there are so many things wrong with omnipotence, but my mind follows down paths already visited and I discovered something that may have slipped the mind of people that have thought about this before.  Namely what it means to be all powerful when [...]

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Being All Powerful Isn’t What it Seems

September 15, 2010

How many times has someone told you that God is all powerful?  Have you ever thought of what it means to be all powerful?  What could you do while being all powerful?  Would there be anything you could not do?  Could you actually do anything? In my Philosophy class today, we discussed something I never [...]

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Biology Textbooks Fear Creationists

August 28, 2010

I was reading the first chapter of my Biology Textbook, and it really goes into detail about how science has nothing to say on religious matters.  That along with the Syllabus I got for the class really shows how worried they are about creationists. The professor also strongly emphasized that science does not say anything [...]

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