HT: Frank Turek and The Skeptical Christian. Both videos present a condensed version of Alvin Plantinga’s free will defense. The first adds a Christian spin to it while the second incorporates some material from C. S. Lewis. These videos, which are a great example of the new media approach to apologetics, are great for [...]
Tags: Alvin Plantinga, C. S. Lewis, evil, free will defense, new media, problem of evil, theodicy
There’s a new objection to the KCA that has been going around recently. It seems to be really popular amongst YouTube atheists in particular. Remarkably, Dr. Craig himself has responded to this criticism here and here. YouTube atheists have in turn issued their own responses (Warning: heavy profanity). This post serves primarily as a response [...]
The transcript of my debate with Fourside over the Leibnizian cosmological argument has been posted. Also, check out our new homepage! We’re going to be uploading past papers as well as links to various apologetics, philosophical, political, and social resources. Edit from Tim: While we’re on the subject of our website, if you’ve tried to [...]
Tags: fourside, LCA, rational theism
by V. P. I am presently studying the philosophy of religion, using The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion as an introduction. While reading some of the articles written by some of the best philosophers in the field, I was struck by the density of the concepts explained, requiring some intense consideration about my [...]
Tags: life, Philosophy, practicality
Here are several simple illustrations of several cosmological arguments that can be used in day-to-day evangelism. The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument: We have a dilemma: The universe is either dependent or it is not dependent. If it is dependent, then its existence is explained by something else (That’s the definition of being dependent). Now, the entity [...]
Tags: analogy, cosmological argument
