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The Slipperiest Theological Slope - James A. Lindsay Responds on God and infinity

The other day, I posted a reivew by a Christian to James A. Lindsay's book Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly. James has kindly taken time to respond to the claims made. It now follows. The Slipperiest Theological Slope Theology is a peculiar artform. It posits

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

"Is God Required for Morality?" - my debate vs Peter S. Williams

I was recently invited to Southampton University by their Athiest Society to do a team debate against Christian philosopher Peter S. Williams, together with third year philosophy student Miriam Animashaun. I was teamed up with Boaz Dicks, a second year philosophy student. Many thanks to him and apologies, as I

Hell & God Creating this World Defeated; Bradley vs William Lane Craig

This is taken from an old post of mine. I still find it a real defeater for the concept of hell. I have just listened to Ray Bradley debate William Lane Craig. I heard this several years ago but didn't really pay it close attention. This time round

The Problem With "God": Classical Theism Under The Spotlight

This is just a reminder that I have a new ebook available called: The Problem with "God". My new ebook is available now on Kindle, Nook and Kobo. James A. Lindsay (Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly) kindly wrote a foreword to support the project. The

Where I stand with Islam and violence now

I have been quite outspoken in recent times about what I believe to be a necessary and inescapable connection between Islam, as properly understood (yes, that notion is wrought with issue) and violence (and intolerance). I have even debated this publicly and given a public talk on the topic (at the

Kalam Cosmological Argument Book Update

I wrote my dissertation for my Masters in Philosophy on the Kalam Cosmological Argument. It was a firm favourite topic of mine for some time. As a result, I was always planning on converting my dissertation into a book. Well, over the last few days, I have resurrected the idea and am happily thunder

Who is the Sinner?

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Who is the Sinner?

This is a little argument from a friend of mine, Julian. Let me know what you think:

God's experiential knowledge and not creating anything

Those who adhere to divine foreknowledge adhere to the notion that God has complete knowledge. He is omniscient. Thomas Nagel once asked the intriguing question, "What does it feel like to be a bat?" God would know, surely? God, I would argue (probably, if I were a Christian)

The Problem with Divine Command Theory #3

I have previously talked about Divine Command Theory (DCT) in detail a couple of times before (here and here). I have been reading a paper called "Can God's Goodness Save The Divine Command Theory From Euthyphro?" by Jeremy Koons. It's a cracking paper and worth reading. The abstract reads:

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Philosophy 101 (philpapers induced) #8: Belief in God: theism or atheism?

Having posted the Philpapers survey results, the biggest ever survey of philosophers conducted in 2009, several readers were not aware of it (the reason for re-communicating it) and were unsure as to what some of the questions meant. I offered to do a series on them, so here it is – Philosophy 101 (

burden of proof

Burden of Proof

I was asked by a fellow blogger to write something on the burden of proof. We often hear the maxim "the burden of proof falls upon the person making the claim" or something like that. Why is this the case? Does it stand?

Divine Command Theory

Taking Nabeel Qureshi to task over morality

Nabeel Qureshi is great; he is a great resource for critiquing Islam, Muhammad, the Qu'ran and the Hadith. He is an ex-Muslim who converted to Christianity and now runs and MA course at Biola and runs his own ministry. His knowledge of Islam is super and his videos have certainly helped me in my exe

Great first review for my new ebook on classical theism

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Great first review for my new ebook on classical theism

John Grove, a commenter here on occasion at ATP, and a great supporter of my work, has really kindly placed the first review of my new ebook on classical theism: God's omni characteristics. It is an amalgam (the book) of my posts, with some original extras, which I think is a super one-stop shop for

Justin Schieber's Real Atheology

It comes with great sadness to announce that my favourite podcast of all time, Reasonable Doubts, will no longer continue to be. This upsets me because there is no greater podcast on the internet than this one. RD has been with me for a good number of years and has provided ample stimuli for me to p

Atonement and Jesus

Atonement and Jesus

The Atonement is one of those funny things in Christianity. It is the central tenet, the main raison d'etre of the whole shebang. Jesus existed as God incarnate in order to be sacrificed and die in order to pay for our sins, past, present and future. Only it makes absolutely no sense. In very

The Truth about God

Franz Kiekeben studied (University of South Florida) and taught (Ohio State University) philosophy, having written for the SKEPTIC magazine and published academic articles on determinism and time travel. He recently sent me a book he has written called The Truth About God to review.

Evidential Problem of evil

The Argument Against God From Tomatoes

Yes, you heard me, tomatoes. I am devastated. My harvest of about three hundred tomatoes has been decimated. Tomato blight. Gutted. The yield would have been my best ever, and they were very healthy looking.

My new ebook available now: The Problem with "God"

My new ebook is available now on Kindle, Nook and Kobo. James A. Lindsay (Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly) kindly wrote a foreword to support the project.

Guest post: The problem with when you are born

In Jonathan's post titled, “Inter-Testamental Moral Relativism,” a hypothetical exchange between an atheist and an Xian highlights the morally relativistic nature of a fundamentalist worldview that defends the idea that executing a man for picking up sticks on a Saturday is obligatory at time T, but

Biblical Exegesis

Reply to Matthew Flannagan on Biblical Moral Relativism

Apologist Matthew Flannagan has criticised my points made on the recent post "Inter-Testamental Moral Relativism" which can also be expressed as "Covenantal Moral Relativism" as Justin Schieber has stated it. In this post I declared that the moral obligations being different between the Old Testamen

Biblical Exegesis

Inter-Testamental Moral Relativism

Theists hate moral relativism. They often accuse atheists and secularists of having it. For them, only the pseudo-moral absolutism of Divine Command Theory, where God's commands decree morality, seems to work in defining some sort of objective morality. The problem is, though, that they aren't very

Counter Apologist

Good Skeptical Theism links

Skeptical Theism is an approach to the problem of evil that states that we just Index)can't know the mind of God; that such infinite minds are so far beyond our ken that we couldn't possibly conceive as to why such evil exists in the world.

classical theism

New ebook on classical theism out soon

I have put together some previous blog writing with a little bit of original stuff to create a hopefully narrative cumulative case against the god of classical theism (with all of the omni characteristics). Most of the posts can be found here; the project was advised of me elsewhere so

On Defining Atheism

On Defining Atheism

I was recently sent a book to review, by Franz Kiekeben, called The Truth About God which is a whistlestop tour, I think, through atheism and counter-apologetics to arrive at the conclusion not that God is improbable, but that God is impossible. I will be interested to see where that goes (click on