Monthly Archives: May 2011

U.S. or Detroit

I just came through security on a flight home from Flint, Michigan. On the way out of the security zone I said thank you to the TSA agent, and told her I appreciated their work, adding, “It means something good about your work, that it’s been almost ten years since the last incident on a …

May 17, 2011 – 10:16 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Comments (2)

Opening comments on an earlier post (The Flood)

Somehow I must have clicked a setting to turn off comments on my post

May 16, 2011 – 6:51 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments Off

“Death is the enemy but cannot beat life – dailypress.com”

For my quarterly Daily Press column this time I had one of my favorite topics on my mind, and also one of my least favorite: life and death.

May 15, 2011 – 7:46 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments Off

On Richard Dawkins’s Refusal to Debate William Lane Craig

An atheistic philosophy lecturer’s message to Richard Dawkins, concerning his refusal to engage in debate with William Lane Craig: In a letter to Prof Dawkins, Dr [Daniel] Came said: “The absence of a debate with the foremost apologist for Christian theism is a glaring omission on your CV and is of course apt to be …

May 14, 2011 – 4:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Comments (100)

Questions From a Reader: The Flood

A while ago a reader named Greg left a comment on the thread, Did God Create the Laws of Physics? He prefaced it with “WARNING: LONG COMMENT AHEAD,” which was certainly fair notice. I thought his questions might better be dealt with on another thread, and he gave me the okay to do it that …

May 13, 2011 – 10:05 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, Origins and Science | Comments (168)

Against Smug Atheism

I want to recap and systematize some things we’ve been saying in recent posts, especially this one. doctor(logic) has staked a claim that atheism is more reasoned and rational than Christian theism. In this he joins the major New Atheists, among them Sam Harris, founder of the so-called Reason Project. (The same Sam Harris who …

May 12, 2011 – 1:37 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Comments (19)

To Turn Down the Noise and Hear Truth

doctor(logic), you say, It’s possible for a god to exist and to hide himself so that no rational being will believe in his existence. It’s also possible for a god to leave plenty of evidence for his existence, so that rational minds will believe he exists. Human minds are noisy. We have biases. In order …

May 11, 2011 – 8:40 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God | Tagged , , | Comments (30)

Upcoming Author Discussion: “No Argument For God”

John Wilkinson, author of No Argument for God: Going Beyond Reason in Conversations About Faith, responded to my review of the book by proposing an online book discussion. We’ve agreed to go ahead with that discussion here, starting about one week from today. There will be some special ground rules to ensure quality in this …

May 11, 2011 – 3:25 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Comments Off