Francis Crick regarded the genetic code found in nature as a "frozen accident." Yet more and more it is looking to be the case that this code is exquisitely finely tuned -- with features suggesting it is indeed one in a million. Therefore ought not purposive or intelligent design be regarded as a legitimate inference, as the best explanation for how the code came into … [Read more...]
A Flowchart on How to Handle Objections to Intelligent Design
Good Arguments for God's Existence – The Cosmological Argument (Leibniz) – pt.2
In the field of philosophy, one of the greatest accomplishments of this great Christian man, is the Cosmological Argument for God's existence, based upon finding a sufficient explanation for the universe. It proceeds in this fashion: Everything that exists has an explanation, either in the necessity of it's own nature, or in an external cause. If the universe has an … [Read more...]
“See to it that No One Takes You Captive through Philosophy”
What ought Christians do with philosophy? Isn’t this contrary to theology and explicitly warned of in the Bible? This is particularly poignant in the letter to the Colossians 2.8. See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementry principles of the world, rather than according to … [Read more...]
Book Review: Existential Reasons for Belief in God
If you ever wanted a book to impress your girlfriend by how smart you are, Clifford William’s Existential Reasons for Belief in God will do the trick…either that or she will want to break up with you because you’re just that nerdy. The title of the book presents no illusion or mystery to it’s inside contents. A creative cover image, not a very creative title. But this is a … [Read more...]
Don’t Reject Theistic Arguments Too Quickly!
Sceptics often reject theistic arguments by pointing out that they “don’t prove God.”[1] Perhaps the theist has just argued that there’s a personal uncaused cause, or a personal designer of the universe, or a necessarily existent perfectly rational mind, or what-have-you; in any case, the sceptic’s response is to explain how the theist’s argument doesn’t … [Read more...]
Good Arguments For God's Existence – The Cosmological Argument (Leibniz) – pt.1
"Why does anything exist at all, as opposed to nothing?" . "Is there an explanation for every being that exists?" . This is the fundamental question, many say, to all of philosophy. It also happens to be the primary question that Leibniz attempted to answer as he formed his version of the Cosmological Argument. Who is "Leibniz", you may ask? … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Reason for God by Tim Keller
The Reason for God, by Tim Keller, is an outstanding response to the biggest questions of our day. Tim Keller is the highly regarded pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, a church with weekly attendance around 5,000. Redeemer has planted dozens of other churches and is generally considered to be one of the most influential churches in America. From the first … [Read more...]
The Contingency of Divine Commands
The ethical realist objector divine command theory (DCT) claims that it is possible for God to command rape or some other morally wrong act (at least we would understand it to be wrong in this world) in some possible world, or in an impossible world close to the actual world, making it obligatory for all moral agents, whereas rape is still morally bad in that same world, thus, … [Read more...]
God is Logically Impossible — Or Is He?
In 1974, George H. Smith wrote a little book called Atheism: The Case Against God. In it, he made an ontological argument against God's existence. I found it intriguing, since I'm currently studying the ontological argument for God's existence. So let's take a look at it in reverse. To be is to be something as opposed to nothing, and to be something is to be something … [Read more...]