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The Modern Library contains material written during or after 1970, which tends to be more scholarly than Kiosk material.
Mark Vuletic Perry
Book Review: Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God (2000) Mark I. Vuletic Book Review: John Perry. 1999. Dialogue on Good, Evil, and theExistence of God. Indianapolis: Hackett. ix+71 pp. In 1978, philosopher John Perry published a well-received little book in which three fictional friends engaged in a series of stimulating but easy-to-understand […]
Mathew Media Movies
Media & Reviews Movies Movies with an overtly atheist perspective are rare; it’s too easy for fundamentalists to picket cinemas and put economic pressure on movie companies. The Handmaid’s Tale Based on Margaret Atwood’s novel and set in the near future in the Republic of Gilead, an America where something has gone very, very wrong. […]
Michael Martin Fernandes Martin Fernandes2
A Response to Michael Martin INTRODUCTION Before I respond to Dr. Michael Martin’s opening statement, I would like to express my appreciation to Dr. Martin for his approach to this debate. I found his opening statement to be both fair and insightful. I respect Dr. Martin for his decision to attack my arguments without attacking […]
Michael Martin Jones Parsons Martin Intro
Douglas Jones opens the interchange by sketching the argument for the Christian critique of non-Christian thought. Douglas Jones, an elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, is the editor of Antithesis and a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Idaho and Lewis-Clark State College. Keith Parsons offers the first of two atheistic responses to Jones’s […]
Michael Martin Naturalism
Justifying Methodological Naturalism (2002) Michael Martin In his recent book Tower of Babel Robert T. Pennock argues against the New Creationists for failing to realize that science is committed to Methodological Naturalism (MN) and not Ontological Naturalism (ON).[1] Roughly speaking ON is the view that only natural processes or events exist. It maintains that […]
Michael Martin Zens New Defense Of Tag
Zens’ New Defense of TAG (2001) Michael Martin Introduction In an Internet paper entitled “A Christian Response to atheist thinker, Michael Martin on TAG and the foundation of induction,” Adam Spurgeon Zens attempted to defend Greg Bahnsen’s inductive form of the Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God (TAG). As I showed in my […]
Nontheism Atheism Determine Morality
Without God, How Do We Determine What’s Right and Wrong? Nonbelievers have several options when it comes to choosing a normative ethical theory. These options include ethical egoism, Kantian ethics, utilitarianism, virtue ethics, social contract theory, and ideal observer theory, to name just some of the numerous choices available. Since an entire website could be […]
Nontheism Atheism Media
Media & Reviews Fiction Books Magazines Movies Nonfiction Books Publishers & Booksellers Reviews
Paranormal Apparitions
Apparitions and Hauntings Ghostly Photos by Joe Nickell (1996) (Off Site) Investigative Files: Miracle Photographs by Joe Nickell (1996) (Off Site) Investigative Files Paranormal Lincoln by Joe Nickell (1999) (Off Site) “Miracle Photo” at Medjugorje by Patrick Fitzgerald (updated 1998) (Off Site) Did God send a shaft of light through the heart of a Medjugorje […]
Paul Draper No Design
Collins’ Case for Cosmic Design (2008) Paul Draper Robin Collins offers three design arguments, one appealing to the existence of intelligent life and the fine-tuning upon which that life depends, one appealing to the beauty of the laws of physics, and one appealing to the intelligibility of the universe. It’s not completely clear what […]
Paul Obrien Gentle Atheism4
It seems only fair to flesh out a few of the more traditional arguments against the existence of God. Once again, I will not dwell very long on any one of them, and I will add my personal assessments to each of them in turn. Contrary to what some might think, I find disastrous flaws […]
Peter Kirby Tomb Introduction
Introduction to the Issue There is a longstanding debate over the historicity of the empty tomb of Jesus. Because many competent critics do not think that the historical evidence justifies belief in the empty tomb, it is fair to say that scholarship is divided on this point.[1] At the same time, many critics do accept […]
Quentin Smith Evil Laws
An Atheological Argument from Evil Natural Laws* (1991) Quentin Smith Department of Philosophy, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH 45387 The following article was originally published in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION in 1991 (Volume 29, pp. 159-174). * I should like to thank Keith Chrzan, P.G. McGrath, Susan Ament Smith and an […]
Ramendra Nath God Dead
Is God Dead? (An Introduction to Kya ishwar mar chuka hai?) Dr. Ramendra Nath Reader, Department of Philosophy, Patna College Patna University Originally published by the Buddhiwadi Foundation 216-A, S.K.Puri, Patna 800 001, Bihar, India Electronically reprinted here with permission. Foreword Preface Introduction "Is god dead?" This is the literal meaning of the Hindi title […]
Richard Carrier Addendaf
Bad Science, Worse Philosophy: the Quackery and Logic-Chopping of David Foster’s The Philosophical Scientists (2000) Addendum F: Hemoglobin Protein Specificity Richard Carrier Foster claims originally that hemoglobin consists of 574 proteins and that all must be specific, but later retracts this by admitting that only 516 are invariant, the remainder being neutral or […]
Richard Carrier Carrier Oconnell Carrier3
Carrier’s Second Rebuttal (2008) Possibly is Not Probably O’Connell’s general mode of argument is to propose possible alternative explanations for everything. But possibility is not probability. And some of his arguments (like those repeating his seed-plant analysis) I already refuted in my first rebuttal, so I will only address here what’s new. 1. […]
Richard Carrier Carrier Wanchick Rules
The Rules We Followed (2006) Welcome to Naturalism vs. Theism: The Carrier-Wanchick Debate. Here Richard and Tom explain the rules of debate they both agreed to follow. (1) The parties to the debate composed a joint statement specifying the proposition to be defended and defining every term in that proposition to the reasonable […]
Richard Carrier Foster4
Bad Science, Worse Philosophy: the Quackery and Logic-Chopping of David Foster’s The Philosophical Scientists (2000) 4. Why Foster Needs to Take a Basic Biology Course Richard Carrier Now, I have already surveyed a hodge-podge of strange notions that threw me for a loop when I read them. But Foster’s mistakes extend beyond mere […]
Richard Carrier Improbable Criminal
Was Christianity Too Improbable to be False? (2006) [See Introduction] Richard Carrier 15. Who Would Follow an Executed Criminal? Not much needs to be said about Holding’s next point, which simply duplicates what he already argued earlier: that “Jesus endured disgrace–and thereby also offended the sensibilities of his contemporaries” by being mocked and […]
Richard Carrier Improbable Resurrection
Was Christianity Too Improbable to be False? (2006) [See Introduction] Richard Carrier 3. Was Resurrection Deemed Impossible? 3.1 The Popularity of Resurrection 3.2 How the Pagan Mission Changed Christianity 3.3 Jewish Background 3.4 Was There a Better Idea? 3.5 Conclusion 3.1. The Popularity of Resurrection James Holding’s next argument is that pagans would not buy a physical […]
Richard Carrier Introd
Introductions (Bibliography of Skepticism in the Ancient World) (1998) Richard Carrier (copyright 1999) Introductions Barclay, William, “Hellenistic Thought in New Testament Times: the Sceptics,” in Expository Times, Vol. 71, July, 1960, pp. 297-301. The Greek Sceptics and Sextus Empiricus, John C. Berberelly, New York, Columbia University, 1974. Stoics and Sceptics, Edwyn Robert Bevan, New […]
Richard Carrier Pascalreply
The End of Pascal’s Wager? (2006) Richard Carrier In “Is Atheism a Safe Bet?” Amy Sayers responds to my essay “The End of Pascal’s Wager: Only Nontheists Go to Heaven” (2002), but she does not understand my argument. Her first objection is that: Richard Carrier has not ended the wager in all forms, as […]
Richard Carrier Resurrection 2e1
This file has been relocated: it is now Section VI of Probability of Survival vs. Miracle: Assessing the Odds.
Richard Carrier Resurrection 3j
This file has been relocated: it is now Section X of General Case for Spiritual Resurrection: Evidence Against Resurrection of the Flesh.
Richard Carrier Steiner
Fundamental Flaws in Mark Steiner’s Challenge to Naturalism in The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem (2003) Richard Carrier This is a critical rebuttal to Mark Steiner’s book The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem (1998). Steiner argues that naturalism appears to be false because nature is fundamentally mathematical. Carrier argues otherwise. […]
Robert Mcnally Preaching
Preaching to the Choir (1997) Robert McNally Review of E. Calvin Beisner, Answers for Atheists, Agnostics, and Other Thoughtful Skeptics : Dialogs About Christian Faith and Life (Crossway, 1993, ISBN 0891077006), 191 pp, $12.99 paper By its own admission, “Answers for Atheists” was originally written with a specific audience in mind: those Christians who […]
Robert Price Beyond Born Again Intro
________________________________________ 1 Beyond Born Again Introduction: Testimony Time “Wishes and hopes can also mature with men. They can lose their infantile form… and their youthful enthusiasm without being given up.” — Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God “I know you better now And I don’t fall for all your tricks And you’ve lost the one advantage […]
Robert Price Price Rankin Question
Questions from the Audience QUESTIONER: My question is to both of you. And it’s two parts. Number one, if this is fiction, [on] what do you base the morals for life? And number two, what is the hope after death? I’m asking both of you. BOB: Well, it seems to me that all meaning is […]
Science Creationism Reviews
Creationism Book Reviews Another Case Not Made: A Critique of Lee Strobel’s The Case for a Creator (2005) by Paul Doland In this chapter-by-chapter critique of Lee Strobel’s The Case for a Creator, Paul Doland comments on the general direction of the book before analyzing Strobel’s interviews with his various experts on specific topics. Topics […]
Testimonials Avellone
Confessions of an Evangelical Atheist (2008) Amanda Avellone What I Believed My Christian Experience Unbinding My Mind The Day I Saw Gray God’s Will and the Power of Prayer And Man Created God in his Own Image… The Word of God? Show Me a Sign The Agnostic Limbo My Conversion What I Believe […]