As Doug Chaplin argues, both miss the same point with an untimely appeal to metaphysical post-hoc in order to draw attention to themselves. These are not payback for human sin in the sense that Dawkins or Robertson (surely mirror images of a modernity that only deals in facts and mechanisms) mean it. But the extent [...]
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atheist philosopher fail
Doug Chaplin has a critique here, but the way he closes his comments are where we need to continue to keep our focus: I see God as one who has found out the hard way that “Shit happens”. In a universe that is not entirely predictable in itself, and where people are free to mess [...]
spitting on atheists
I have been in countless debates with atheists, agnostics, and rather vocal anti-theists on many occasions. Most of the time my discussions have been very fruitful and I think we all ended up learning something. It was actually through such heated dialogue and truly often enlightening discussion that I ironically reclaimed my faith in a [...]
choosing god is an absurdity that leads to a rational outcome
Let's use this functional definition of deity or "god": A sacred reality which is a reality that is fundamentally and substantively other than that which is constrained by the set of all cause and effect, yet actively engages in the set of all cause and effect in relationship to it. In scientific terms, any object [...]
dear atheist, why not god?
I cannot count how many times the equation has been made that since there is "not a shred of evidence" that God exists, people must be delusional who believe that such a God exists. My question to this is usually, What kind of evidence do you need to satisfy your taste for knowledge? That most [...]
