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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 Bolum13
Din Adami Insanlarimizi Hosgörüsüz, Acimasiz Ve Kindar Ruhla Yetistirir I) Din adami insanlarimizi kötülügü kötülükle, hatta iyiligi dahi kötülükle karsilamak gerektigi zihniyeti içerisinde yetistirir: A) Din adami “Kisasta hayat vardir” hükmünü fazilet örnegi bir kural olmak üzere belletir:B) Din adami insanlarimiza, farkli inançta iseler ana, baba, kardes gibi yakinlara karsi dahi yabancilik ya da düsmanlik […]
God and Moral Autonomy
God and Moral Autonomy* James Rachels Kneeling down or grovelling on the ground, even to express your reverence for heavenly things, is contrary to human dignity. — Kant God, if he exists, is worthy of worship. Any being who is not worthy of worship cannot be God, just as any being who is not omnipotent […]
James Still John Context
Library: Modern Documents: James Still: John Context Contextual Problems with the Gospel of John James Still The Johannine material (Gospel of John) is a radical departure from the synoptics of Mark, Matthew, and Luke. John’s psuedepigraphical author relied solely on the Greek Septuagint, did not have a Semitic-language background, and Colwell (Greek of the Fourth […]
Jeff Lowder Jesus Resurrection Chap5
Conclusion I think there are three distinctive characteristics about the contemporary debate between Christians and secularists over the resurrections. First, both sides tacitly assume that the material understanding of the resurrection is the proper understanding of the issues involved. Second, both sides fail to discuss the background probability of the resurrection from their critic’s point […]
Ken Saladin Saladin Gish2 Gish3
Second Rebuttal for the Negative (Gish, 5 minutes) Moderator: Five-minute rebuttal with Dr. Gish. Gish: Ladies and gentlemen, again you have heard this charges. Dr. Saladin said that you can do this and you can do that. Why didn’t he do it here tonight? He made these charges, why didn’t he document it? Because nobody’s […]
Kyle Gerkin Objections Sustained Obj7
Objection #7: Church History Is Littered with Oppression and Violence (2001) (Interview w/ John D. Woodbridge, Ph.D.) Kyle J. Gerkin This objection is a statement of fact, which cannot be avoided. Woodbridge acknowledges this, and instead tries to provide context to soften some of the tyranny. We will get to that in a moment, […]
Mark Vuletic Dembski
Response to Massimo Pigliucci’s Review of The Design Inference Mark I. Vuletic Massimo Pigliucci’s review of William Dembski’s The DesignInference puzzles me. What puzzles me most is lack of substantive comment about the book itself–Pigliucci’s "review" reads for the most part like an extended diatribe against the intelligent design (i.e. creationist) movement. Do not […]
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.