In an event entitled Fr. Copleston vs. Bertrand Russell: The Famous 1948 BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, the two famous and intricate minds go head-to-head in several religious confrontations. I recall having listened to Russell’s daughter reflect on his philosophy after he died, with a soft and fond inside view that Russell’s…
DetailsThomas Nagel, a prominent atheist, recently wrote a book that has made serious waves in philosophical circles, principally for its admission that naturalism as seen through the neo-Darwinian lens is most assuredly false. Though Alvin Plantinga, C. S. Lewis, and Sharon Street had already spread this thesis, Nagel’s development of it from within the atheist perspective…
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So goes the theme of Pascal’s Wager, which many believe has been relegated to B-list philosophy, at best. I am not so sure, and Peter Kreeft explains why, over at Strange Things (which you should be reading, all the time, BTW!): Suppose someone terribly precious to you lay dying, and the doctor offered to try…
DetailsWLC takes on physicist Sean Carroll, if you can get past the extremely annoying commercials, in this week’s lecture of the week (that is really a debate). A theologian-philosopher against a physicist, I liked this one a LOT…
This is often referred to as the Euthyphro Dilemma. I will let WLC take it from here… Within Christianity, I think we are obligated to agree with WLC as he explains the case above. But in an argument about theism itself, it probably doesn’t matter. Say God did command morality (as Kiekegaard seems to believe…
DetailsThe cosmological argument for the existence of God probably isn’t what you thought it was, and it is far more powerful than the due the modern mind gives it. Edward Feser explains.
H/T to Maria