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Adam and Eve

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From the Fall to the Flood: How not to fix a problem you created

The Fall is a thoroughly problematic theological mechanism at the best of times. But if you combine it with other terrible concepts and events, it looks even more incoherent. Most understandings of God entail an OmniGod conception: God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving. All-knowing or omniscience also includes divine foreknowledge—

Pearced Off! #12 - Nonsensical Theology: Adam, Eve & the Two-Horned Dilemma

I am running a series of the old podcast segments from my Pearced Off! section of the Skepticule Podcast (a British skepticism-based podcast now on hiatus) that I used to contribute to. Some of the earlier ones have some quieter audio. Apologies. They run at around ten minutes. Something to

Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Adam & Eve

Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Adam & Eve

Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great

A Dialogue on Morality: Response to Guy Walker (Pt 2)

A Dialogue on Morality: Response to Guy Walker (Pt 2)

As regular readers will know, I am engaged in a debate concerning morality and whether, as humans, we are exceptional in comparison to the animal world or whether morality can be fully explained in the context of biological and natural evolution, without invoking some other mysterious unknown such as God

Adam and Eve, and Failing the First Free Will Test

I have posted a number of times on the Genesis account of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. One commenter on one of the posts reminded me of my favourite meme: And this is nowhere more apparent than with the eating the fruit of the Tree of the

Having a Chop at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

Having a Chop at the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil

I recently posted on the incoherence of the narrative in Genesis concerning Adam and Eve and the eating of the apple. The upshot was this: Adam and Eve were expected to morally follow the moral proclamation of God in not eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and

Adam and Eve: A Few Flaws...

Adam and Eve: A Few Flaws...

I recently posted an argument about Adam and Eve and God's moral culpability for human failure and sin, most of which went like this: 1. If Adam and Eve are properly representative of humanity, and failed the test, then God’s design of humanity is ultimately sub-optimal. This

Adam & Eve as Bad Test Cases, and God's Moral Culpability

There is a two-horned dilemma concerning Adam and Eve that Christians of any persuasion (who take the pair's existence as somehow true, and certainly see the Fall as making sense) must overcome. We have a situation whereby Adam and Eve fail some kind of test and, as a

Adam & Eve as a Two Horned Dilemma; God as Morally Culpable

Adam and Eve present a real problem, a thorn in the side of believing Christians. There is a two horned problem of using Adam and Eve as representative of humanity. If they are just like humanity and fail as a result, then God has badly designed humanity to fail. If

The Immorality of the Atonement - The Idea that God Wants Blood

Here is another piece, this time on the atonement and sin, from a friend who supplies adverts and what have you to the Free Inquiry magazine amongst others. He has a special interest in the fascinating life of Robert Ingersoll.

Counter-apologetics on Original Sin, Adam and Eve, the Westboro Baptist Church etc available now!

I, as you may well know, contribute to the Skepticule podcast by recording a counter-apologetics segment for them, Pearced Off. My segment is always followed by an interesting discussion of ideas brought up by the 'panel' of Pauls. Here are the latest offerings: Skepticule 50 - When just

Adam, Eve, Original Sin, Faulty Design and God's Moral Culpability

I give regular counter-apologetic podcast segments to the Skepticule podcast and my last one has provoked some interesting debate online in certain forums. Here is my essential case: My segment this week will be a simple one on Adam and Eve and the two horned problem of using Adam as