We’re now taking submissions for a new Question of the Week series we’re doing. Use the contact form in the homepage. Starting next week, we’ll answer one question per week from our readers. The Gospel Coalition has released William Lane Craig’s new essay, “Five Arguments for God“ We’ll soon be reviewing both Greg Bahnsen’s new [...]
Tags: Rational Bytes
(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
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 [...]
So I am returning to the blogging team after a short time off. I originally wanted to do a personal type reflection as my return post, however, I felt it more productive to post that on my own blog which you can read here. This post will be to request feedback on several series I’m [...]
Welcome to the second of my nine part series on the kalam cosmological argument. Today, we’ll examine the first premise of the argument. The KCA relies on a relatively modest causal principle — “Whatever begins to exist has a cause.” This can be phrased more clearly into the claim that out of nothing, nothing comes. [...]
Tags: Causal Principle, KCA, natural theology
