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September 2021

September 11, 2021

Breaching the Epistemic Barrier

I recently wrote an important piece explaining the foundations to my entire worldview. Go read...

September 09, 2021

The Foundation to My Whole Worldview

In a sense, this is about the most important piece I can write because out...

September 05, 2021

Social Media Vs Mainstream Media: There is No “Vs”, the Lines Are Blurred

The long and the short of it: they are both the same, only separated (in...

May 2021

May 05, 2021

“God’s Mercy REQUIRES God’s Unfairness”

I made some recent debate pieces about whether God is unfair because of the unequal...

May 04, 2021

Debating the Unequal Evidence Problem Again (IV): Concluding Remarks

A very quick synopsis so far in this debate initially with Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

Do We All Have “Sufficient” Evidence to Believe?

This piece will in some sense be a linguistic piece, and in other senses will...

April 25, 2021

Debating the Unequal Evidence Problem Again (II)

This is a continuation of my debate with Catholic Paul Hoffer concerning the unfairness in...

April 23, 2021

Debating the Unequal Evidence Problem Again (Doubting Thomas Revisited)

Some of you may remember the recent spat I had with Dave Armstrong and others...

March 2021

March 23, 2021

What Is Fairness? Tackling Verbose Stoic’s Mission.

In my recent series about the unevenness of evidence apportioning throughout time and place, Verbose...

March 22, 2021

It Turns out the Whole Unfairness of Evidence Apportioning Boils down to “Free Will”

Who knew. The background: Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong and I have been arguing about the...

March 20, 2021

Sinnott-Armstrong, Unfair Distribution of Evidence for God, Belief, & Free Will

To continue the theme of evidence with relation to convincing believers and non-believers to either maintain...

March 19, 2021

Putting the Doubting Thomas Episode to Bed, and Opening a Can of Worms

This is a long piece, but we get onto some good stuff, so stay on...

March 18, 2021

Doubting the Lessons from Doubting Thomas: Responding to Dave Armstrong Again

I started off this debate the other day with a short piece about the unfairness...

March 17, 2021

Doubting Thomas: A Response to Catholic Dave Armstrong

Yesterday, I wrote a very short piece concerning the episode of doubting Thomas in John...

February 2021

February 25, 2021

Materialism As a Position of Faith

I am, brought on by a section on phenomenology in a forthcoming book, looking back...

February 21, 2021

The Most Pathetic Christian Argument I Have Heard

I recently had a debate with a Chriatian apologist, Lydia McGrew, on the Unbelievable? show on...

December 2020

December 02, 2020

Today’s Interview on WLC, the Resurrection, Faith, Evidence & Belief

Here is the interview I had today with Andy Hall. As ever, I really enjoyed...

November 2020

November 29, 2020

Totally Disingenuous: William Lane Craig Woefully Mischaracterises Me in His Podcast

I have just been made aware of a podcast in which William Lane Craig takes...

May 2020

May 01, 2020

Concerning Metaphysical and Methodological Naturalism

I was having a Tippling Philosophers' debate concerning naturalism elsewhere and my friend stated this,...

April 2020

April 17, 2020

Pearced Off! #6 – Circularity of Believing the New Testament

I am running a series of the old podcast segments from my Pearced Off! section of the...

March 2020

March 30, 2020

Pearced Off! #2 – Doxastic Voluntarism

I am running a series of the old podcast segments from my Pearced Off! section of the Skepticule...

September 2019

September 15, 2019

Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Omniscience & Free Will

Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK),...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

KNOWING Your Rights, Locke and Other Rights Problems

The rights debates raging on a number of recent comment threads have been pretty embarrassing...

May 2018

May 03, 2018

Is Falsification An Essential Part of Science?

I was inspired by a recent video by Sixty Symbols, a physics YouTube channel ran...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

Quote of the Day: C Peterson on Fact-Checking

C Peterson has furnished us with some good quotes over the months, but I particularly...

December 11, 2017

The Proportion of Biblical Scholars Believing in the Truth of Biblical Claims Is Meaningless

This is something that I hear so often, in the area of the biblical studies. that...

December 06, 2017

Pragmatism Regarding The Genetic Fallacy

I would like to piggyback on Jonathan's recent post on why he chooses to dismiss...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Spooky Punkins and Statistical Correlation

Happy Halloween, folks! As a graduate student, I am contractually required to enjoy nerdy humor,...

October 12, 2017

Why Should the Bible and Qu’ran Need Commentaries?

I was recently reminded of this conversation that I had a few years back with...

September 2017

September 18, 2017

On the Epistemology of Consensus

Some might say that we are flogging a dead horse here, but during the ongoing...

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