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April 2012

April 04, 2012

Sin isn’t Newtonian

(Part two of two on the apologetics offered by missionaries outside the Reason Rally) In...

April 04, 2012

Evangelicals Pitching Skepticism?

(Part one of two on the apologetics offered by missionaries outside the Reason Rally) I...

April 03, 2012

Heaven Can Wait (in your debate arsenal)

Greta Christina and a different Christina at Freethought Blogs both recently came to the conclusion...

March 2012

March 06, 2012

Exploring Stephen Law’s Evil God Challenge

Remember you can vote once per day for the About.com Atheism Awards. I’m one of five...

February 2012

February 05, 2012

The Privation-Perfection Problem

In Edward Feser's The Last Superstition he goes through the argument that some Unmoved Mover...

January 2012

January 23, 2012

Futzing Around with Final Causes

This post is part of a series on Aquinas, Aristotle, and Edward Feser's explanation of them...

January 20, 2012

Three First Causes I Don’t Pray To

This post is part of a series on Aquinas, Aristotle, and Edward Feser's explanation of...

January 15, 2012

Feser’s The Last Superstition [Index Post]

I ran into a Dominican at an American Association for the Advancement of Sciences event...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

It’s a Fair Cop, Douthat

In a response to a lot of the debate that followed Jennifer Fulwiler's conversion story...

November 21, 2011

Feser’s Typology of Atheism (Part 1)

Edward Feser, a professor at Pasadena City College has set out to create a typology...

November 06, 2011

Made for Another World?

While travelling this weekend, I finally got around to reading Freud's Last Session - a...

November 02, 2011

How do you pick a teacher?

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a term for people who are too ignorant to recognize that...

October 2011

October 24, 2011

Infinite Inaccuracy

I spent the weekend at an alumni event for my college debating group. In the...

July 2011

July 27, 2011

And You Never Were a Scotsman!

Jenifer Fulwiler of Conversion Diary wrote a piece for the National Catholic Register ("5 Catholic...

May 2011

May 01, 2011

William Lane Craig and I (briefly) Agree!

P.Z. Myers has a post up lambasting Christian apologist William Lane Craig for his defense...

April 2011

April 20, 2011

Try it! You’ll love it!

I am notorious at school for pushing math classes on my friends. Done with your...

April 04, 2011

Challenge Accepted: God’s Obligations

Brandon Watson, a philosophy professor who blogs at Siris, has taken a crack at one...

March 2011

March 31, 2011

If This is Religion, Why Bother?

Following a link from A Practical Heretic, I came across a rather bizarre portrait of religion at...

March 30, 2011

Play it Again: God’s Genocides

This is a new feature for the site, where I'm going to try to pull...

March 28, 2011

Don’t Take Me Literally! (Hellfire edition)

I'll be responding to the very interesting discussions developing on yesterday's thread on baffling inconsistencies displayed by...

March 27, 2011

Don’t Take Me Literally!

Patrick made a good observation about the disparity between some apologists' stated beliefs and their...

March 21, 2011

Do you have challenging questions for Christians?

A Christian pastor wrote in at Friendly Atheist to ask for difficult questions his congregation could try...

March 20, 2011

God Can’t Prove Much to Puny Mortals

Over in the comment thread of last week's post on standards of proof for miracles,...

February 2011

February 13, 2011

“I was born and bred in a paradox patch!”

I've been writing a series of posts on the intellectual attraction I've felt to G.K....

February 05, 2011

An Attraction to Orthodoxy (Series)

As part of my Sunday's Good Book series, I posted about G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy and...

January 2011

January 24, 2011

Reading about the Resurrection

When I solicited book recommendations, Eldnar made a push for Gary Habermas’s The Case for...

January 23, 2011

Strobel’s One-Sided Cases

I’m reviewing Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence...

December 2010

December 14, 2010

Anyone have apologist recommendations?

As I wrote yesterday, I was disappointed by the person I found on the online...

December 13, 2010

Talking to a Mormon Missionary

The Mormon Church runs a 24-hour live chat with missionaries at Mormon.org. I found out...

November 2010

November 29, 2010

Questions for Atheists:Why is There Evil? (Part 1)

This post is part of a series responding to Michael Egnor's Eight Questions for New...