Another fanatic thinks God said "Thou shalt kill."

Forces of the universe don't include magical spirits.

Famous people who doubted religion.

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Stephen Hawking and the Mind of God (1996) Antony Flew Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time [1] has been a record breaking best seller. A note in his later collection, Black Holes and Baby Universes [2] reveals that A Brief History remained on the bestseller list of The New York Times for fifty-three weeks, […]

Arguments to Design (1996) Antony Flew A fresh look at an old family of arguments It is high time and overtime to take a fresh, open-minded, sceptical look at arguments to design. It has to be to not from because such arguments–which have been and remain the most widely employed and effectively persuasive of all […]

(1995) Jim Perry Related documents: Was Jesus Mad, Bad, or God? … Or Merely Mistaken? (2004) by Daniel Howard-Snyder (Off Site) (PDF) A critique of the trilemma argument by a Christian philosopher. The Trilemma on Trial (Off Site) by James Patrick Holding Holding’s rebuttal to this essay. (Strangely, Holding does not provide a link to this […]

The Horner-Till Debate Did Jesus Rise Bodily From the Dead? (1995) Michael Horner and Farrell Till About This Transcript Synopsis of Horner’s Position (from the debate program) Synopsis of Till’s Position (from the debate program) Introductory Remarks (Jeff Lowder, Debate Organizer) Introductory Remarks (Lee Moriwaki, Debate Moderator) Mr. Horner’s Opening Arguments [25 min], Cross-Examination by […]

Here is the story of my intellectual development, and the consequences which followed. I apologize for the length, but I think all of the information is important to the story. I also apologize for the informal style, as much of the stuff here is very emotional to me and nobody besides myself proofread it before I submitted it.

Make life better, in spite of the craziness.

Crackpot militias: guns against "the Antichrist."

Planet positions don't dictate people's lives.

Index of pages in the Craig-Washington Debate: Does God Exist?

This is a transcript of a debate on the existence of God, between Dr. William Lane Craig and Dr. Corey Washington, which took place on 9 February 1995 at the University of Washington, before an audience well over 1500 people.

I want to say a couple things about atheism and about the kind of evidence that I think one has to give in support of that, or theism. Tonight I'm going to be defending atheism, the view that God doesn't exist. I'm going to try to give you good reasonable, rational arguments for atheism. At the same time, I'm going to give you what I take to be good, solid arguments against the thesis that God exists.

I want to at least refer to the arguments I gave against God's existence.

I want to address at least a couple of Dr. Craig's objections.

Let’s run through some of the claims that Dr. Craig made.

Cultists plant nerve gas to kill subway passengers.

Once again, supernaturalism produces mass deaths.

As death nears, heaven fantasies are self-deception.

A Close Look at Dr. Hovind’s List of Young-Earth Arguments and Other Claims (1995) Dave E. Matson Specific Young-Earth Arguments Carbon-14 and Radiometric Dating The Geologic Column Some Additional Topics Examined Miscellaneous Topics Bibliography

A popular response to the problem of evil contends that there is a necessary connection between free will and the existence of moral (or human-caused) evil. Alvin Plantinga, for instance, has advanced a concept of "transworld depravity"--essentially the idea that in any possible world where a given person has substantial free will, that person will necessarily commit at least one immoral act. In criticizing Plantinga's notion of transworld depravity, Clement Dore offers an alternative solution. But Weisberger argues that Dore's solution also fails because the existence of free will in no way necessitates either the human capacity to act wrongly or the excessive amount of moral evil we actually find in the world. Weisberger concludes that the free will defense utterly fails to undermine the argument from evil.

It stemmed from a famous doomsday fiasco.

Holy-rollers and holy hucksters.

Women stoned, Ulster bombed, as faith goes bonkers.

A fundamentalist uprising against "godless" textbooks.

Criminals and psychos among ministers.

Waco was merely the latest faith disaster.