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The Modern Library contains material written during or after 1970, which tends to be more scholarly than Kiosk material.
Ilhan Arsel Din Adamlari Bolum10
Seriat Verileriyle Halkimizi Batil Inanislar Içerisinde Yoguran Din Adami I) Ka’be’deki Hacer-i Esved’e (Kara Tas’a) tapma ve seytanlari taslama gelenegi: II) Din adami insanlarimizi, “Sag’in sol’a fazli (üstünlügü)” inanislariyle yogurur. III) Din adami insanlarimizi “tek” sayilarin “çift” sayilara “fazl’i” (üstünlügü )” inanislariyle egitir: IV) Din adami insanlarimizi “Besmele çekerek is görme” gelenegine sürükler! V) Din […]
J E Hill Creation Debate
Should Both Sides of the Debate on Evolution be Included in Textbooks? (2008) J.E. Hill and Seth Cooper [Though originally published in the Spring Hill Review, subsequent editorial changes have been implemented by the Secular Web editor.] Background Letter to Seth Cooper: Should Both Sides of a Debate be Included Online? Response from Seth Cooper […]
James Still Institution Narrative
Library: Modern Documents: James Still: The Institution Narrative of Luke 22:19-20 The Institution Narrative of Luke 22:19-20 James Still 1. Introduction In the gospels, issues involving fasting, eating, and drinking plague Jesus. Just after his forty day fast in the wilderness, Satan tempts Jesus to turn a stone into bread (Mt. 4:3; Lk. 4:3). While […]
Jeff Lowder Jesus Resurrection Chap2
The Importance and Nature of the Resurrection Christians universally agree that the resurrection of Jesus is central to their faith. Popular apologist Josh McDowell wrote, "The resurrection of Jesus Christ and Christianity stand or fall together" (1982, p. 179). Terry Miethe, a Christian professor of philosophy at Oxford, has maintained that "`Did Jesus rise from […]
Jeff Lowder Jury Feedback
Feedback on Jury Several years ago, I idly picked up a copy of _Evidence that Demands a Verdict_. Even upon casual reading, I found McDowell’s scholarship inane to the point of nausea. It seems obvious to me that Biblical Inerrancy is an obvious fraud, and those who attempt to demonstrate it are not attempting to […]
Ken Saladin Saladin Gish2 Gish Assess
Gish’s Assessment of the Debate [Assessment of the debate from Acts & Facts (Institute for Creation Research), 17(8):2,4 (August 1988).] Auburn University Debate Dr. Duane Gish’s opponent for the debate on the campus of Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, on the evening of May 10, was Dr. Kenneth Saladin, Professor of Biology at Georgia College, Millidgeville, […]
Best-Selling Errancy: An Essay on Inconsistencies in the Bible
Best-Selling Errancy An Essay on Inconsistencies in the Bible Mark D. Ball, Ph.D. Introduction The Goodness of God The Requirements for Salvation Vowing The Relationship Among Fear, Love, and Punishment Endnotes Bibliography Introduction “The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason,” says Thomas Paine in the preface to his treatise on religion, […]
Mark Vuletic Mwi
Notes on Christianity and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (1998) Mark I. Vuletic Philip Dorrell (1995) makes a number of claims about Christianity and “Many Worlds Interpretation” (MWI) of quantum mechanics. I find some of those claims objectionable, and some of them worth adding to. Rejection of MWI as Christian Doctrine? Dorrell […]
Michael Martin Copan
Copan’s Critique of Atheistic Objective Morality Michael Martin Related documents: Atheism, Christian Theism, and Rape (1997) by Michael Martin “One of the more dramatic debating maneuvers used by Christian apologists against atheists is to argue that atheists can provide no objective reason for not raping people. This startling claim follows from the apologists’ wider […]
Michael Martin Glynn
Patrick Glynn’s God: the Evidence Michael Martin Patrick Glynn, a former atheist with a Ph.D. from Harvard, argues in God: The Evidence[1] that new scientific discoveries in cosmology, psychology, and medicine add up “to a powerful–indeed, all-but-incontestable–case for … the existence of soul, afterlife and God (p. 2).” Written in a breezy popular style […]
Michael Martin Martin Frame Tang5
Final Response to Frame Michael Martin I would like to thank John Frame for the courtesy and care with which he has carried on the discussion. Our discussion has been stimulating and has raised many important issues in the philosophy of religion which believers, atheists, and agnostics must take seriously. Although it would be […]
Michael Martin Suffering
Human Suffering and the Acceptance of God (1997) Michael Martin Why is there so much human suffering in the world if God is all good and all powerful? As I have shown elsewhere although there have been many answers to this question none are successful.[1] However, an answer has been offered by William Craig […]
Michael Moore Religious Violence
Religion and Violence (2017) Michael Moore There is no greater social evil than religion. It is the cancer in the body of humanity. — A. C. Grayling (2005, p. 34) The connection between religion and violence is a long-standing one. Its roots can be found in Edward Burnett Tylor’s description of the “murderous practices” found […]
Nontheism Atheism
Atheism About Atheism [ Index ] Various introductions to atheism, including its definition; its relationship to agnosticism, theism, and noncognitivism; and its value. Arguments for Atheism [ Index ] In this section, “arguments for atheism” means “arguments for the nonexistence of God.” In the jargon of the philosophy of religion, such arguments are known as “atheological arguments.” The argument […]
Nontheism Atheism Ground Morality
Without God, What Grounds Right and Wrong? Adams’s Open-Question Argument Against Ethical Naturalism (2006) by Stephen Sullivan In Finite and Infinite Goods, Robert Merrihew Adams offers an interesting variation on G. E. Moore’s famous open-question argument against ethical naturalism. In giving causal-explanatory reasoning the last word in ethical inquiry, he says, ethical naturalists negate a […]
Nontheism Atheism Whymoral
Why Should Atheists Be Moral? Does the Christian Theism Advocated by J.P. Moreland Provide a Better Reason to be Moral than Secular Humanism? (1998) by Richard C. Carrier Carrier refutes Moreland’s claim that theism offers more and better reasons to live a moral life than atheism or secular humanism. Doing the Right Thing (1998) (Off Site) […]
Paul Draper General Intro
General Introduction (2007) Paul Draper God is not dead, but the Supreme Being’s academic health is far from perfect. This is not a comment about God, of course. It is a comment about the professoriate, especially at elite universities and especially in the arts and sciences. Metaphysical naturalism, which is a form of atheism […]
Paul Obrien Gentle Atheism13
I want to discuss some emotional issues that religious beliefs serve to address and accommodate. Although it seems obvious that a belief should be concerned with the truth, it is less obvious to some that a belief’s implications help determine its worth. It is even less obvious that a belief needs to conform to one’s […]
Peter Kirby Tomb Appearance
Appearance Traditions The first appearances were to Peter and his associates. The first appearance recounted in the formula found in 1 Corinthians 15 is the one to Kephas. This is widely acknowledged to be the earliest and best evidence that is available. The Gospel of Mark, the oldest of the four, alludes to the appearance […]
Quentin Smith Anthropic
The Anthropic Coincidences, Evil and the Disconfirmation of Theism (1992) Quentin Smith The following article was originally published in RELIGIOUS STUDIES in 1992 (Volume 28, pp. 347-350). The anthropic principle or the associated anthropic coincidences have been used by philosophers such as John Leslie (1989), William Lane Craig (1988) and Richard Swinburne […]
Quentin Smith Universe
Internal and External Causal Explanations of the Universe (1995) Quentin Smith The following article was originally published in PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES in 1995 (Volume 79, pp. 283-310). PART ONE: THE FORMULATION OF THE CONTROVERSY I A certain controversy about explaining all contingent beings erupted in the 18th century and has continued up to the present […]
Reason Agnosticism Agnostic
The Origin of the Word Agnostic Bill Young There is little doubt that Thomas Henry Huxley invented the word agnostic in the Spring of 1869. However, there is conflicting evidence about when this was and what it originally meant. According to R. H. Hutton, as published in the New English Dictionary, Huxley first used the […]
Richard Carrier Bigbangredux
I Was a Big Bang Skeptic (2002) Richard Carrier The ultimate resource has now become available online surveying all the evidence supporting the Big Bang theory, compiled by professional cosmologists: Evidence for the Big Bang (2006), by Bjürn Feuerbacher and Ryan Scranton, in the Talk.Origins Archive. For readers interested in why we should believe the […]
Richard Carrier Carrier Wanchick Bios
Who We Are (2006) Welcome to Naturalism vs. Theism: The Carrier-Wanchick Debate. Here Richard and Tom explain who they are. Richard Carrier: Richard Carrier is a published historian and philosopher, with a several degrees in intellectual history, including an M.Phil. from Columbia University, where he is currently working on his doctorate in ancient science. […]
Richard Carrier Foster0
Bad Science, Worse Philosophy: the Quackery and Logic-Chopping of David Foster’s The Philosophical Scientists (2000) Richard Carrier Originally published in 1998 and revised in 2000. T A B L E of C O N T E N T S: Who is David Foster? Some of Foster’s Strange Notions Exercises in Self-Refutation Why Foster Needs […]
Richard Carrier Improbable Luck
Was Christianity Too Improbable to be False? (2006) [See Introduction] Richard Carrier 18. How Successful Was Christianity? 18.1 Assumptions 18.2 Numbers: What the Christians Say 18.3 Numbers: What the Experts Say 18.4 With Whom Did Christianity Begin? 18.5 The Rise of World Christianity 18.6 Conclusion 18.1. Assumptions In previous chapters, we have sufficiently demonstrated that there was nothing […]
Richard Carrier Indef 4b
Geivett’s Exercise in Hyperbole (1999, 2005) Richard Carrier [Part 4B of a larger Review of In Defense of Miracles.] Going Too Far Douglas Geivett’s basic conclusion that it is possible to use miracles as evidence for the existence of God is formally correct (as is his reversed version of the argument, which I […]
Richard Carrier Moreland Naturalism
The Carrier Theory of Value and the Ethical Adequacy of Metaphysical Naturalism(2001) Richard Carrier In the May/June, 1996 issue of Promise, J.P. Moreland publisheda paper called “TheEthical Inadequacy of Naturalism” (pp. 36-39). In it he repeated anumber of fallacies and falsehoods about Secular Humanism that must berefuted, and in the process I will […]
Richard Carrier Resurrection 2
Why I Don’t Buy the Resurrection Story (6th ed., 2006) Richard Carrier Probability of Survival vs. Miracle: Assessing the Odds After years of study as an historian, I now believe that Jesus simply died, and the rest was invented, consciously or not, by his disciples, as a means to carry on his teaching […]
Richard Carrier Resurrection 3d
This file has been relocated: it is now Section IV of General Case for Spiritual Resurrection: Evidence Against Resurrection of the Flesh.