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The Modern Library contains material written during or after 1970, which tends to be more scholarly than Kiosk material.
Fred Edwords Relright
Getting Out God’s Vote Pat Robertson And The Evangelicals Frederick Edwords and Stephen McCabe(As published in the May/June 1987 issue of The Humanist, with additional bibliographic material provided at the end.) Being the year prior to an election year when the religious right seems to be gathering its strength to make a decisive push for […]
Gerald Larue Otll Chap10
Old Testament Life and Literature (1968) Gerald A. Larue Chapter 10 – Saul THE Deuteronomic history of Israel continues with the stories of Samuel and Saul which form the records of the beginnings of Hebrew kingship. Some sources are designated, such as "The Book of the Acts of Solomon" (I Kings 11:41), "The […]
Gerald Larue Otll Chap25
Old Testament Life and Literature (1968) Gerald A. Larue Chapter 25 – Life and Literature of the Late Period THE next major project facing the people of Jerusalem was the rebuilding of the wall of the city. Zechariah’s dramatic claim that Yahweh would protect the city with a wall of fire (Zech. 2:5) […]
Gerald Larue Otll Part2
Old Testament Life and Literature (1968) Gerald A. Larue PART 2 – Before There Was an Israel PROLOGUE All human events occur within dimensions of space and time. Prerequisites for adequate evaluation of happenings are knowledge of the physical environment or stage-setting and comprehension of historical antecedents or factors preceding the event. Because […]
Graham Oppy Smith2
Book Review: THEISM, ATHEISM, AND BIG BANG COSMOLOGY (1996) Graham Oppy Recent scientific research into the cosmological origins of the universe has prompted a flood of philosophical speculations about the consequences of that research for views which invoke supernatural causes for the existence of the universe. Much of this speculation has come from people […]
Ibn Al Rawandi Review
Review of "Why I Am Not a Muslim" Ibn al-Rawandi [This review was originally published in the New Humanist, Bradlaugh House, 47 Theobald’s Road, London, England WC1X 8SP. Reproduced with permission.] In one of his early works the traditionalist writer Frithjof Schuon makes an acute observation about the mentality of Muslims: `The intellectual – and […]
Ilhan Arsel Din Adamlari Bolum14
Türk’ü “Türk’e” ve “Türk” ile Ilgili Her Seye Karsi Yabanci, Hatta Düsman Yapan Seriat Emirlerinin Insafsiz Uygulayicisi Olarak Din Adami I) Türk’ü Kendi Atalarina ve Geçmisine Düsman Yapan Din Adami: II) Insanlarimizi Arap Ruhu ve Zihniyeti ile Yetistirir Din Adami: III) Kur’an’i Arapça okutma konusunda din adami’nin kurnazligi! Batili din adami kendi insanini ve mensup […]
James Still Absurd
The Absurd Life: Barabbas and Christ James Still There is a certain Faustian conflict in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus says, "Blessed are they who have been persecuted within themselves. It is they who have truly come to know the father."[1] Just as Mephistopheles tells Faust that the darkness gives birth to the […]
James Still Kalam
Library: Modern Documents: James Still: Eternity and Time in William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument Eternity and Time in William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument James Still * The clocks were functioning, thus someone must have set them in motion, even if their winding had been designed to last a long time. -Umberto Eco […]
Jeff Lowder Jury
The Jury Is In The Ruling on McDowell’s “Evidence” Jeffery Jay Lowder (editor) Introduction (1997) by Jeffery Jay Lowder Josh McDowell’s Evidence That Demands a Verdict (hereafter, “ETDAV“) is arguably one of the most influential Christian apologetic books today. The purpose of Jury shall be to evaluate how well it does. Chapter 1. The Uniqueness […]
Julian Baggini Review Martin
Review of The Impossibility of God (2005) Julian Baggini Review: Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier (eds). 2003. The Impossibility of God. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. 438 pp. Let’s get the well-deserved praise over and done with and move swiftly on to more interesting matters. All infidels (Infidel, noun, 1: one who is not a […]
Ken Saladin Saladin Gish2 Gish4
Closing Statement for the Negative (Gish, 5 minutes) Moderator: We will now have a five-minute closing statement from Dr. Gish. Gish: Ladies and gentlemen on page 353 of this book by Michael Denton, he says this: "Contrary to what is widely assumed by evolutionary biologists today, it has always been the anti-evolutionists, not the evolutionists, […]
Mark Vuletic Dent
REVIEW OF “EVOLUTION: A THEORY IN CRISIS” BY MICHAEL DENTON Keith B. Miller Department of Geology Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506-3201 There is much confusion in the popularized literature about the evidence for macroevolutionary change in the fossil record. Unfortunately, the discussion of evolution within certain parts of the Christian community has been greatly […]
Mark Vuletic Policy
Internet Infidels receives quite a bit of mail, as is evident to anyone who peruses our feedback section. To reduce clutter in the feedback section, we are now instituting a series of conditions for the printing of mail. In order to have your letter printed by Internet Infidels, it must meet the following critieria: Your […]
Mathew Sn Creation
Why alt.atheism Exists mathew [Editors note: Usenet newsgroups were once very popular venues for discussion of topics of interest. In the intervening years since the writing of this article, however, they have become less and less popular, primarily because they tend to be overrun with spammers. In the meantime, discussion boards, such as the […]
Michael Martin Fernandes Martin Fernandes3
Introduction Once again Dr. Martin should be commended for the graciousness and brilliance he has displayed in this debate. It is truly an honor to debate a man of his stature. In his second statement, Dr. Martin accuses me of “begging the question” against atheism. However, he fails to understand that I am presenting theism […]
Michael Martin Jones Parsons Martin Martin
Is A Non-Christian Worldview Futile? Michael Martin Douglas Jones’ “The Futility of Non-Christian Thought” raises important epistemological questions that both Christians and non-Christians need to address. However, as I will show, Jones’ argument for his main thesis that non-Christian worldviews destroy the possibility of knowledge rests on unsound arguments and confusions. In addition, it […]
Michael Martin No Atheists
Are There Really No Atheists? (1996) Michael Martin Some Christians maintain that there are no atheists. They believe, of course, that some people profess to be atheists. But according to them these people suffer from a form of self-delusion. The doubters insist that in their heart of hearts people who profess not to believe […]
Michael Moore Church Wealth
Filthy Lucre: The Church and Wealth (2019) Michael Moore “Filthy lucre,” wrote Titus (1:11), and Matthew (6:19, 24) concurred: “Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth,” for “Ye cannot serve both God and mammon.” Luke (12:33) instructed his flock: “Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not […]
Nontheism Atheism Dispositions
On Naturalism, Why Do We Have Particular Moral Dispositions? Review of Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature by Larry Arnhart (2002) by Evan Fales It has become something of a leitmotif among evangelical apologetes to argue that morality can have no objective foundation if there is no God. Such is the argument […]
Nontheism Atheism Minds
Argument from Physical Minds The argument from physical minds (APM) is a strong but neglected argument in the case for atheism. Two versions of the argument have important implications for the philosophy of religion. The first is the mortalistic argument from physical minds, which runs as follows: If a nonphysical mind (rather than the brain) […]
Paranormal Healing
Faith Healing Archive of Medical Expert Gary Posner’s Essays on the Paranormal [ Index ] Can Science Prove that Prayer Works? by Hector Avalos (1997) (Off Site) Florida woman’s “miraculous” cure featured on “Unsolved Mysteries” by Gary P. Posner (Off site) God in the CCU? by Gary P. Posner If Looks Could Kill and Words Could […]
Paul Draper Serious
On the Plausibility of Naturalism and the Seriousness of the Argument From Evil (2007) Paul Draper Introduction Plantinga on Plausibility Plantinga’s Main Point Introduction In my opening case, I defended an argument from evil based on the following evidence statement: E: For a variety of biological and ecological reasons, organisms compete for survival, with […]
Paul Obrien Gentle Atheism5
Considering these arguments, assessments, and refutations, do they really play a crucial role in the acceptance or rejection of the belief in God? I do not think they do. One of the things I hope you take away from these arguments is a feeling that somehow they are all missing the point. Doesn’t it seem […]
Peter Kirby Tomb Paul
Testimony of Paul In the previous section, it was argued that the silence of several writers to mention the empty tomb constitutes an inductive argument against the historicity of the empty tomb. The absence of evidence for tomb veneration was also taken as evidence against the empty tomb. In this section, the evidence of Paul’s […]
Quentin Smith Hawking
Stephen Hawking’s Cosmology and Theism (1994) Quentin Smith The following article was originally published in ANALYSIS in 1994 (Volume 54, No. 4. pp. 236-243). 1. Stephen Hawking has recently argued that there is ‘no place for a creator’, that God does not exist. In his quantum cosmology there would be no singularities […]
Ramendra Nath Hindu
Why I Am Not a Hindu Ramendra Nath Originally published by Bihar Rationalist Society (Bihar Buddhiwadi Samaj) 1993. Electronically reprinted with permission. I have read and admired Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian. On the other hand, I have also read and disagreed with M.K.Gandhi’s Why I Am a Hindu. My acquaintance […]
Richard Carrier Addendag
Bad Science, Worse Philosophy: the Quackery and Logic-Chopping of David Foster’s The Philosophical Scientists (2000) Addendum G: Microbial Replication Richard Carrier Hoyle says in Our Place in the Cosmos: The Unfinished Revolution that “a typical time for replication under favorable conditions would be two or three hours” (p. 35) so that in a […]
Richard Carrier Carrier Oconnell Carrier4
Carrier’s Closing Statement (2008) The Stronger Case Prevails I remain convinced. More likely than not, Paul did not believe the corpse of Jesus rose from the dead, but that Jesus left his corpse behind and rose from the dead in an entirely new body. Therefore, Paul did not need to believe the tomb […]
Richard Carrier Carrier Wanchick Wanchick1
Wanchick’s Opening Statement (2006) Leibnizian Cosmological Argument It seems reasonable to believe that every substance[1] has an explanation for its existence: it was either caused by something else, or exists necessarily (it cannot not exist). This premise is evidently more plausible than its denial, for if confronted with a new substance, everyone would assume […]