(Cross-posted at Thinking Matters Talk) Welcome to the third of my nine part series on the kalam cosmological argument. Last time, we examined the plausibility of the first premise. Today, we’ll examine the second premise of the argument. I’ve decided to speed the publication of this post up because of some trigger-happy commenters who simply can’t [...]
Tags: cosmology, KCA, natural theology, universe began to exist
Almost everyone has heard about the iPad and as a Mac user I can hardly resist the temptation to write about it. Isn’t that off topic? Why of course, but you see, I have a secret mission to convert my fellow blogger Tim from a PC to a Mac. Unfortunately these attempts have gone ignored [...]
Tags: Apple, technology
Philosopher Ralph McInery, a noted Aquinas scholar, has died at age 80.
Tags: Death, Ralph McInery
Alvin Plantinga is unarguably the most important Christian philosopher around today. He is responsible for the project of Reformed Epistemology and the popular Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism. Plantinga currently holds the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. (Edit from Tim: Plantinga has recently retired from this post) Several years ago [...]
Critics of a temporal view of God sometimes charge it with undermining his omniscience. Since future events do not exist on a tensed view of time, they reason, God is ignorant of future events. The underlying assumption to this objection is that a perceptualist model of divine thought is correct. On this view, God’s knowledge [...]
Tags: A-theory, B-theory, omniscience, sovereignty
