INTRODUCTION In the article “part 3” of this series, I showed how Theory 2) is almost certainly false. The question now is, how does this truth status relate to PC. Is PC then actually more probable? If so, how much and why? In this article I will show how Philosophical Creationism not only is not…
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On Theistic Evolution, A Generic Criticism And A Proposed Paradox – Part 3
INTRODUCTION In “part 2” of these series of articles we came to two conclusions: first, that “the belief in “proposition g” (I.e. the generational intra-species etiological dependence) and therefore in common ancestry is, at this point, unjustified” and second, that “explanations other than naturalism fail to warrant common descent”. What does all of this mean?…
Commentary on “The Case For Jesus” of Brant Pitre
This article has a threefold structure, first I will state my main thesis, then in Part 1 I will analyze the book in its content, and finally in Part 2 I will elicit my personal comments and speculations. Main Thesis The author, Brant Pitre explicitly states in the first page of his book “This book…
On Theistic Evolution, A Generic Criticism And A Proposed Paradox – Part 2
INTRODUCTION In this second part of my criticism towards theistic evolution, I shall delve into what I briefly anticipated I would have done in “part 1” of this series. To recapitulate some useful information, this is what I concluded: -first, “God’s active will has to be involved in the evolutionary process, for something which should…
On Theistic Evolution, A Generic Criticism And A Proposed Paradox – Part 1
PREMISE This article does not have the goal to strictly “debunk” theistic evolution or to show it’s inconsistency with Christian belief (judgment from which I shall abstain in this specific article), but simply show several weaknesses in the belief of certain theistic evolutionist. My hope is that theistic evolutionists may reconsider their precedently unquestioned confidence…
Answering Aron Ra’s Epistemic Claims Regarding His Criterion for Modal Evaluation
This article may result lengthy and arduous for the reader not used to read philosophical material. INTRODUCTION A few days ago I encountered, thanks to the Facebook page “Capturing Christianity”, a Youtube video showing the popular atheist Aron Ra discussing the nature of evidence with Christian philosopher Blake Giunta (also the author of the…
Plantinga’s Answer to the Logical Problem of Evil – Part 2
In my article https://confident-faith.com/2018/01/27/plantingas-answer-to-the-logical-problem-of-evil-part-1/ I showed how Plantinga assesses that the problem of evil is most probably intended by most to argue for an implicit contradiction between a certain set of beliefs within Christian theism. I concluded by reporting the two propositions supposedly necessarily implied by the propositions: 1) God is all-powerful, 2) God is perfectly…
Plantinga’s Answer to the Logical Problem of Evil – Part 1
In this article, we will start seeing how Plantinga in his book “God, Freedom and Evil” tackles the logical problem of evil. For the reader who is interested in a brief introduction to the issue, I advise reading my article https://confident-faith.com/2018/01/21/a-brief-introduction-to-the-problem-of-evil/. Let’s begin! The logical problem of evil implies that there is an inherent contradiction…
Answering Adolf Grunbaum’s criticism of the Leibnizian Cosmological argument
Adolf Grunbaum is a philosopher of science who criticized several theistic arguments for God’s existence. In his academic article “A New Critique of Theological Interpretation of Physical Cosmology” he criticizes both the Leibnizian and the Kalam argument. The Kalam cosmological arguments and the Leibnizian arguments are two argument for the existence of God which philosopher…
Does Psychological Reductionism Prove Materialism and an Enumeration of Possible Materialistic Arguments
Quite some time ago I received the following question: “Does psychological reductionism prove materialism?”. The question is very confusing and, in my opinion, shows multiple misunderstandings on how certain premises lead to certain conclusions. Lets start by defining some terms. Materialism is defined as the claim that “only matter exists” (which I define as “absolute…
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