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A Philosophy of the Christian Religion: Conflict, Faith, and Human Life

Note Hull’s comment that if a person or group dissociates the species-specific designation “Homo sapiens” from the designation “human being,” with all of its attendant moral and theological implications, then that person or group has a “less plausible position.” Why? Why should that which we see, hear, feel, taste, or touch (or observe through scie

J.P. Moreland • Love Your God With All Your Mind

Discourse on Method.

William B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

Your premises must measure up with respect to two counts, truth and strength.

D.Q. McInerny • Being Logical

The alternative is known as anti-Humeanism,

Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

To address both the frame problem and the fine-tuning conundrum, I propose that the continuum of possibilities is itself structured by what we may as well call a divine act. This is not the notion of God as an external watchmaker who meticulously designs each actual outcome. Rather, I draw on Whitehead’s process philosophy to argue that the divine ... See more

Matthew David Segall • God and Eternal Objects

with many others, believe instead that once we accept the view that the moral laws are self-generated values of the human mind, the human mind being itself the emergence of a complex system of natural processes, then we should arrive at a great respect and honor for life as it is.