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• Santayana on the Appreciation of Beauty - The Partially Examined Life, #77

  
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  George Santayana (1863-1952) was the first and maybe still the foremost Hispanic-American philosopher (as a student he worked under William James at Harvard). His embrace of naturalism and rejection of idealism were the foundation for a spiritual philosophy not based in religion. Here is some brief info on his life ...
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• How to respond to postmodernism, relativism, subjectivism, pluralism and skepticism

  
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  Four articles from Paul Copan over at the UK site “BeThinking”. Each article responds to a different slogan that you might hear if you’re dealing with non-Christians on the street. “That’s just your interpretation!” Some of his possible responses: Gently ask, ‘Do you mean that your interpretation ...
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• William Lane Craig debates Austin Dacey: Does God Exist?

  
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  Here is the video and summary of a debate between Christian theist William Lane Craig and Austin Dacey at Purdue University in 2004 about the existence of God. The debaters: William Lane Craig Austin Dacey The video: (2 hours) The video shows the speakers and powerpoint slides of their arguments. ...
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• A Lost Classic: Hunger by Knut Hamsun

  
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  It’s uncertain where the term “starving artist” originates, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find it attributable, at least in part, to the 1890 novel Hunger by Knut Hamsun. Hamsun’s unnamed narrator is a high-minded writer with a strong sense of destiny: he’s meant to write brilliant, canonical treatises on ...
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• What Explains the Laws of Logic and Mathematics?

  
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  Post Author: Bill Pratt The laws of thought and mathematics are absolutely true.  The law of non-contradiction, the law of identity, and the law of the excluded middle – the three fundamental principles of thought, otherwise known as the laws of logic – are all undeniable.  To deny them is to assume they are ...
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• A probabilistic argument against panexperientialism

  
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  Let panexperientialism be the view that all fundamental particles have fundamental experiential or protoexperiential properties. There is good reason to doubt this. Fundamental particles differ as to whether they have fundamental properties like mass, charge and spin. Thus, we should expect them to differ as to ...
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• What Explains the Existence of the Physical Universe?

  
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  Post Author: Bill Pratt  If there is one thing we can all agree on, it is that the physical universe exists. I think we can safely ignore anyone who believes that the universe is just an illusion or that we are in the “matrix.” But if the universe exists, what explains it? Why does it exist? Any worldview ...
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• Critique of Sam Harriss Moral Landscape: Can Science Tell us What we Ought to do?

  
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  .... The ideological tendencies of scientism seek to scrap traditional philosophically based ethics and produce a whole new ethical system based upon a scientific understanding of human biology. We might call this “biologically based ethics,” or “scientific naturalism,” the official name for the school is ...
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• The Gospel Coalition interviews Stephen C. Meyer on the Cambrian explosion

  
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  A great introduction to the Cambrian explosion on The Gospel Coalition , of all places! Here’s one question and answer that emphasizes that the progress of science is making the problem of the sudden origin of all the body plans in the Cambrian fossils much worse for those who cling to Darwinism. Have the last ...
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• Has Secularization Made Us Smarter?

  
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  Here is a common myth:  Intelligence has evolved over the centuries of recorded history, so we’re smarter than people were a thousand years ago. Just look at the remarkable advances in the sciences and especially technology, and it’s clear that our current generation is more intelligent than those of the past, ...
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• Theistic Intervention and its Discontents: A Rejoinder to Phillip Clayton’s and Thomas Oord’s Non-Interventionist Account of Special Divine Action (part 1 of 3)

  
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          Since around the 17 th century onward, there has been an intellectual renaissance mediated primarily through the natural sciences.With the astonishing advancements in this discipline produced by the geniuses of some like Newton and Darwin, explanatory spaces where God once roamed freely have allegedly ...
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• Atheist Inquisition led by Jerry Coyne seeks to censor pro-ID physicist at Ball State University

  
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  Evolution News reports. Excerpt: There is a very disturbing affair going on at Ball State University that everyone needs to know about. The public university in Muncie, Indiana, has been under pressure from a rabid national atheist group and from atheist activist Jerry Coyne to discipline an assistant physics ...
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• Tom Gilson replies to Barbara Forrest on Naturalism

  
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  This is Tom Gilsons critique of a Barbara Forrest essay in defense of naturalism. I had linked to the essay and suggested that it was a huge exercise in begging the question.
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• Rationally Speaking podcast: Sean Carroll on philosophical naturalism

  
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  Astrophysicist and author Sean Carroll joins this episode of Rationally Speaking, to talk about "naturalism" - the philosophical viewpoint that there are no supernatural phenomena, and the universe runs on scientific laws. Sean, Julia, and Massimo discuss what distinguishes naturalism from similar philosophies like ...
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• The Worldview of Naturalism

  
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  In Western culture, one popular worldview is that of naturalism.  Naturalism is the worldview that believes, in a word, that nature is all there is.  This worldview “regards the natural, material, and physical universe as the only reality.”  Naturalists say the cosmos is a closed system of cause and effect; ...
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• Debate Review: Fazale Rana vs. Michael Ruse on “The Origin of Life: Evolution vs. Design”

  
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  Fazale Rana recently debated Michael Ruse on the topic of the origin of life. Essentially, the question of the debate was whether the origin of life is best explained by naturalism or design. Here, I will provide brief comments on the debate. Please note I make no claims to being a scientist and I am fully aware that ...
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• Challenging the Dapperness of Paul Draper: Why the Argument from Evolution to the Improbability of Christian Theism is not that Scary

  
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  Abstract: The chief assertion of this paper is that Draper’s argument from the falsity of special creation to the improbability of Christian theism (referred to as CT ) in respect to indifference naturalism (referred to as IN ) is dubious. I maintain this assertion by employing an, admittedly speculative, a ...
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• Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

  
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  Home > Philosophy > Metaphysics Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism  2  |   3   |   4   |   Next > Some atheists claim there is a conflict between science and religion. But what if there were a conflict between naturalism (disbelief in the supernatural) and science? ...
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