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Fine Tuning Ethical Intuitionism 28 Nov 2010 | 10:00 pm
There are different varieties of Ethical (or Moral or Evolutionary) Intuitionism. Some are subject to more criticism than others. I am in the process of fine tuning my particular view of Ethical Intui...
Ayn Rand on "Free Will" and Justice 4 Nov 2010 | 07:00 pm
"A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality. If man is evil by birth, he h...
Is God the Author of Evil? Molinism has no better answer than Calvinism 3 Nov 2010 | 07:00 pm
In the book, Divine Foreknowledge: Four views (ed. James K. Beilby and Paul R. Eddy, 2001), four evangelical Christians present different views on the meaning of Divine Foreknowledge. Greg Boyd presen...
How Did Adam and Eve Sin if they were created "Good"? 2 Nov 2010 | 07:00 pm
In a prior post, I argued that not even Adam and Eve had a truly free will. If this is true, then the so-called Free Will Defense for the Problem of Evil fails, for they were created with a predisposi...
Did Adam and Eve have a Free Will? 1 Nov 2010 | 07:00 pm
The Free Will Defense for the problem of evil really relates only to Adam and Eve; because the Bible teaches that after the fall of the original couple, men's hearts incline towards evil. Man's nature...
Halloween 31 Oct 2010 | 08:00 pm
Short History of Halloween What band is best suited for Halloween? Its got to be Kiss. In the 70's when I was a teenager, preachers were saying that KISS stood for Kings in Satan's Service. Get over...
God or Nothing? 30 Oct 2010 | 08:01 pm
Pat Condell, in his own inimitable way, explains why not to believe in God doesn't mean that one must believe in nothing.
Hugo Grotius on Punishing an Innocent 29 Oct 2010 | 08:05 pm
Hugo Grotius (1583-–1645) was a Dutch jurist who is famous for his work on international law. He was also a theologian and is credited with developing the governmental theory of the atonement. This th...
Must There be Evil if there is Good? 28 Oct 2010 | 08:00 pm
Christians sometimes offer a defense for the problem of evil by claiming that "there must be evil if there is good. " In other words, you can't have one without the other. John Leslie Mackie (1917-19...
J. L. Mackie on the Problem of Evil--The Free Will Defense 27 Oct 2010 | 08:11 pm
John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981), an Australian philosopher, taught at Oxford University from 1967 till his death in 1981. He was also elected a fellow of the British Academy. In 1955, he wrote an impor...
