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Dallas Willard on Christianity, Magic, and the Supernatural

Dallas Willard, professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, asks this question in his excellent book Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship With God: How does...

November 29, 2009

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Explaining Souls

In response to one part of a comment from Geoff Arnold: Geoff, the following is apparently your expansion of an assertion you had made earlier of “profound metaphysical...

July 13, 2009

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Four Puzzlers from Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer on why science and religion can never unite: I don’t think a union between science and religion is possible for a logical reason, but by this...

February 24, 2009

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Tom Gilson on Imposter Syndrome, Evangelism, and ApologeticsThanks, Dylan!
Dylan Whittler on Imposter Syndrome, Evangelism, and ApologeticsThanks for this, Tom. You’ve made me rethink some things in my life and in my writing. Blessings!
BillT on Outlining an Evolutionary Argument Against Moral Realism, On Materialistic AtheismI don’t think objective absolute morality can exist on naturalism. But I don’t see how it can exist on any version of Theism either. Open to comments on how that could be. The classic explanation (if I can express it correctly) is that God is the summum bonum the "highest
Shane Fletcher on Outlining an Evolutionary Argument Against Moral Realism, On Materialistic Atheism"I would say moral realism exists if and only if there is some condition X such that it is true that X is morally right or X is morally wrong, independent of human judgment." Do you mean "independent of sentient being judgement"? Because in that case I would agree with
Steve Kwiatkowski on Outlining an Evolutionary Argument Against Moral Realism, On Materialistic AtheismGreat post, Tom! I'd like to add, it seems that labeling certain behaviors "right" and "wrong" as they are now is just one option available to materialists to support human populations’ survival and reproduction . Wouldn't another option be to label the killing of the sick and the weak as

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