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Din Adami’nin Toplumumza Bellettigi Çagdisi “Din” Anlayisi Konusunda I) Din Adami’nin “Din Anlayisi” Konusunda: A) Din adami insanlarimizi gelismemis toplumlarin özelligi içerisinde yetistirir.B) Ilkel insanin ve ilkel toplumlarin özelligi her seyi göklerden ve ilahi güçlerden beklemek, ibadeti yasam amaci edinmek ve din adaminin dediklerini yerine getirmektir:C) Din adami’na teslimiyet:Ç) Ilkel insan geleneklere körü körüne bagli […]

Halkimizi “Yoksulluk”, “Kader” ve “Sabir Denemesi” Felsefesiyle Zavalli Kilan Din Adami I) Bati’da din adami “emek” ögesini “dinsel görev” haline getirirken: II) Din Adami, Halk Yiginlarina “Mübtezel’ligi” ve “Yoksul’lugu”, Fazilet Diye Belletir; “Kaderciligi” Ise Bu Zihniyetin Temeli Bilir. A) Din adami yoksullugu ve rizik azligini “fazilet” niteliginde gösterirken, varlikli sinifin güvenligini saglar nitelikteki hükümlerin de […]

Library: Modern Documents: James Still: The Syrophoenician Woman in Mark 7:25-30/Matthew 15:21-28 The Syrophoenician Woman in Mark 7:25-30/Matthew 15:21-28 James Still Mark’s Text The Syrophoenician woman pericope is found in Mark 7:25-30 and paralleled in Matthew 15:21-28. Mark’s version of the story reads: [A] woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about [Jesus], and […]

[Note: the following article was originally published in the Journal of Higher Criticism 8:2 (Fall 2001), pp. 251-93. A substantially revised version of this essay appears as a chapter with the same title in The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave, ed. Robert M. Price and Jeffery Jay Lowder (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus, 2005).] ________________________________________ […]

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Media & Reviews Publishers & Booksellers American Atheist Press Carries books, booklets, bumper stickers, and videos on Atheist and freethought topics. Their catalog is available on their web page; a free hard copy is also available via snail-mail. Their books include critiques of the Bible, lists of Biblical contradictions, and so on. One such book […]

Skepticism and McDowell’s "Proof" Jerry Wayne Borchardt This is from The American Rationalist 27(July/August 1982). Copyright 1982 by The American Rationalist. The religionist may be foolish, but he must not be obviously foolish to himself. -Chapman Cohen Josh McDowell is a popular speaker, writer, and champion of biblical literalism. He is perhaps the most read […]

Saladin’s Assessment of the Debate [Assessment of the debate from Creation/Evolution Newsletter 8(6) : 11,14 (Nov/Dec 1988).] THE DEBATE CIRCUIT Saladin-Gish Debate May 10, 1988, at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama Reported by Kenneth S. Saladin Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA 31060 My second debate with Duane Gish took place before an audience of about 800 last […]

Holding Overruled! (2002) Kyle J. Gerkin   This is a response to a review by James Patrick Holding of a piece I wrote entitled “Objections Sustained,” a critique of Lee Strobel’s book, The Case For Faith. For the purposes of this document: Holding’s review is in plain text. Excerpts from my original essay are in […]

Solution to the Jehu Problem (2006) Leonard Jayawardena The Problem It is alleged that that there is a contradiction between 2 Kings 10:30 and Hosea 1:4 because the former commends Jehu for massacring the house of Ahab, whereas the latter pronounces judgment upon the house of Jehu for the “blood of Jezreel.” Taking the latter […]

Rationally Speaking Massimo Pigliucci Whence Natural Rights? – A Dialogue (October 2000) (Off Site) Dr. Pigliucci examines the question of human rights through an interesting dialogue between two characters: Hypatia and Simplicia. The Place of Science (September 2000) Dr. Pigliucci examines anti-science sentiment and the false assumptions made with respect to the arrogance and force to […]

More on Hitler’s Religious Beliefs mathew [ Traducción al Español / Spanish translation ]   Adolf Hitler, in a speech delivered April 12, 1922, and published in his My New Order: My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in […]

Review of “Beyond the Cosmos” (2nd Edition) by Hugh Ross (1999) Michael J. Hurben   Introduction Beyond the Cosmos is the most recent in a series of religious books by Hugh Ross (The Fingerprint of God, The Creator and the Cosmos) which attempt to demonstrate that science is not only compatible with Christianity, but that […]

As Dr. Fernandes and I complete the penultimate phase of our debate I would like to thank him again for his stimulating attempt to answer my criticisms. Introduction Atheism in the positive sense is the view that the theistic God, an all good, all knowing, all powerful being who created the Universe, does not exist. […]

The Martin-Frame Debate The Transcendental Argument for the Nonexistence of God (1996)   This debate is about Martin’s 1996 article, “The Transcendental Argument for the Nonexistence of God” (TANG), which attempts to reverse the claims of the transcendental argument given by presuppositionalist apologists. The Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God demonstrates God’s existence by […]

[Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Teaching Philosophy 8:4 (October 1985): 352-54. The page numbers below show the position of the text within that pagination scheme.] ________________________________________ 352 God, Freedom and Immortality, Antony Flew. Buffalo: Prornetheus Books. 1984, 183 pp, $8.95. MICHAEL MARTIN This collection of essays, divided into three parts (God, Freedom […]

Holy Fools (2017) Michael Moore That strange and sickly world into which the Gospels lead us—a world apparently out of a Russian novel, in which the scum of society, nervous maladies and ‘childish’ idiocy keep a tryst (Nietzsche 1895/1918, p. 96). The jury is still out on the correlation between religiosity and psychopathology. Several studies […]

A Note on the Concept of Belief (1998) Niclas Berggren “Ratio omnia vincit” (“Reason defeats everything”) – Manilius, Astronomica 4, 931 The purpose of this note is to proffer a needed clarification as to what determines beliefs. Particular attention will be devoted to the idea that it is possible to choose beliefs, i.e., that beliefs […]

Evidential Arguments from Evil The argument from evil (or problem of evil) is the argument that an all-powerful, all-knowing, and perfectly good God would not allow any—or certain kinds of—evil or suffering to occur. Unlike the logical argument from evil, which holds that the existence of God (so defined) is logically incompatible with some known […]

The Argument from (Reasonable) Nonbelief 1993 was a watershed year in the philosophy of religion generally and for atheological arguments specifically. In that year, Cornell University Press published J.L. Schellenberg’s now classic book, Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason. Schellenberg’s book contained the first book-length analysis and defense of the idea that the weakness of evidence […]

Gentle Godlessness A Compassionate Introduction to Atheism (1995) Paul O’Brien Introduction Part One: Atheism Part Two: The Cosmological Argument Part Three: Arguments for the nonexistence in God Part Four: Real Arguments Part Five: Atheism Reassessed Part Six: William James Part Seven: The Pragmatic Theist Reassessed Part Eight Part Nine: Pragmatic Atheism Part Ten: Atheism Part […]

As I proceed to bury myself further into controversial theological issues, the issue of hell is something to be considered as well. Heaven provides some assurance that there will be life after death, and it also assures us that a heavenly life will be a fantastic one. But what about hell? I was concerned about […]

Argument from Silence I titled this section “Argument from Silence” because I am well aware that these are arguments from silence. Whenever an argument from silence is made, the objection invariably comes “that is just an argument from silence,” perhaps accompanied by the dictum, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” I am recognizing […]

A Cosmological Argument for a Self-Caused Universe (2008) Quentin Smith             Introduction: The Meaning of “The Universe Causes Itself”           Part One: The Entailment Argument for a Self-Caused Universe           Part Two: A Universe that Causes Itself to Begin to Exist           Part Three: Complete Explanations           Appendix: The Abbreviation Argument for a Self-Caused Universe Introduction: The Meaning of […]

What is Atheism Really All About? (1996) Richard Carrier   "He who decides a case without hearing the other side, even if he decides justly, cannot be considered just" — Seneca What is an Atheist? An atheist is a person who does not believe that any gods exist. Why don’t you believe in God? There […]

O’Connell’s Second Rebuttal (2008)   The Meaning of “Resurrection” First, to clarify my original point, the word anastasis does not always refer to resurrection. It can simply mean “to rise up” in a mundane sense (e.g. rising up out of bed). But my intended point was that in those cases in which anastasis does refer […]

Was Christianity the Cause of Modern Science? Sources of the Claim (as of 2000) Richard Carrier     Was Christianity the Cause of Modern Science? This is a list of all known places where the claim is made that Christianity was in some sense the cause of modern science. I am eagerly seeking others that […]

Bad Science, Worse Philosophy: the Quackery and Logic-Chopping of David Foster’s The Philosophical Scientists (2000)   9. The Odds of Life Evolving by Chance Richard Carrier   Advance to: Shuffling Cards Advance to: Typing Monkeys Advance to: Hemoglobin and the T4 Genome I have surveyed most of the strangeness of Foster’s book. But I have […]

Was Christianity Too Improbable to be False? (2006) [See Introduction]   Richard Carrier   2. Who Would Follow a Man from Galilee? 2.1 Two Key Problems 2.2 Getting the Context Right 2.3 Working Class Rabbi 2.4 The Galilean Connection 2.5 The Gospel of John 2.6 The Role of Messianic Prophecy 2.7 Why a Virgin Birth? 2.8 Conclusion   2.1. Two Key Problems James […]

The Problem with Miracles and the Shaky Groundwork of Corduan and Purtill (1999, 2005) Richard Carrier   [Part 3A of a larger Review of In Defense of Miracles.]   Defining “Miracle” Purtill defines a miracle as “an event brought about by the power of God that is a temporary exception to the ordinary course of nature […]