A Digital Areopagus // Reason. Faith. Dialogue.| Strange Notions
I spend a lot of time criticizing contemporary Christian apologetics. Since I am myself a Christian apologist, that might seem a bit strange. But it is, in fact, simply a practical outworking of my commitment to what I call the 50/50 Rule: 50/50 rule: devote as much time to (a) defending the belief| Strange Notions
A Digital Areopagus // Reason. Faith. Dialogue.| Strange Notions
A Digital Areopagus // Reason. Faith. Dialogue.| Strange Notions
A Digital Areopagus // Reason. Faith. Dialogue.| Strange Notions
A Digital Areopagus // Reason. Faith. Dialogue.| Strange Notions
A Digital Areopagus // Reason. Faith. Dialogue.| Strange Notions
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” While the world definitely had a beginning, there’s a question of whether we can prove this by reason alone (i.e., by philosophical arguments). Defenders of the Kalaam cosmological argument often use an argument like this one, which is fo| Strange Notions
In recent years, one of the most popular arguments for the existence of God has been the Kalaam cosmological argument. Ultimately, I think this argument is successful, but many of the ways it has been employed are unsuccessful. It is an argument that needs to be used carefully—with the proper| Strange Notions
God created the universe a finite time ago, but there’s a question of whether we can prove this by reason alone. Defenders of the Kalaam cosmological argument often claim that the universe cannot have an infinite history because “traversing an infinite” is impossible. In his book Reasonable Fa| Strange Notions
Sometimes defenders of the Kalaam cosmological argument defend its second premise (i.e., that the world couldn’t have an infinite past) by proposing a paradox involving counting. The line of reasoning goes something like this: A. Suppose that the universe has an infinite history (the kind of h| Strange Notions
