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?…
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…
Book Review “Aquinas and Evolution” of Fr. Michael Chaberek
CHABEREK, Michael. Aquinas and Evolution, Why St. Thomas’ Teaching on the Origins is Incompatible with Evolutionary Theory. Chartwell Press, 2017. Soft Cover, $ 16.95 Reviewed by Ed Da Pra, Franciscan University of Steubenville. Father Michael Chaberek argues in His book “Aquinas and Evolution” that a proper understanding of Thomistic philosophy is incompatible with theistic evolution….
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…
A brief introduction to the Problem of Evil
In this period of research regarding different Christian apologetics topics I would like to address in the proximate future articles the “problem of evil” by presenting the works of two philosophers: Alvin Plantinga and Peter van Inwagen. In particular, I will be drawing insights from Plantinga’s book “God, Freedom and Evil” and Peter van Inwagen’s…
The Neo-Platonic Proof for the Existence of God – part 1
In this article, we want to present in an accessible way the proof for the existence of God formulated by philosopher Ed Feser in his new book “Five proofs for the existence of God”. We will briefly show that a composite reality has to find its conditions of existence in an ultimate non-composite reality. In “part…
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