Bill Pratt | January 26, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt As I’ve read comments on the blog over the years, I’ve often read a version of the following: “science disproves the existence of God.” Even prominent atheists like Richard Dawkins and Victor Stenger say something similar. Edgar Andrews, in his book Who Made God?, points out that this argument can be circular. [...]
Bill Pratt | January 13, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most fascinating discoveries of modern science has been that the universe is finely tuned to support human life. Philosopher of science John Lennox, in his book God’s Undertaker, notes that “this perception on the part of scientists, that the universe has to be very precisely structured in order [...]
Bill Pratt | January 9, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 1 of this series, we learned that there are two versions of the multiverse hypothesis, level 1 and level 2. The level 1 multiverse is non-controversial as it is basically an extension of our current universe in space. The level 2 multiverse, however, makes much grander claims and is fraught with [...]
Bill Pratt | January 6, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most powerful arguments for God’s existence is the fine tuning argument. Rather than rehearse it here, please read Wintery Knight’s presentation of the argument. Many atheist scholars acknowledge the persuasiveness of this argument (e.g., philosopher Peter Millican did as much in his recent debate with William Lane Craig), [...]
Bill Pratt | September 23, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 1 of this series Philosopher Edward Feser demonstrated that reason, not faith, brings us all the way to the conclusion that Jesus is divine. Once we arrive here, where do we go? Feser explains: Suppose you know through purely rational arguments that there is a God, that He raised [...]
Bill Pratt | September 20, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt A typical accusation of atheists toward Christians is that we only believe what we believe because of blind faith. In other words, we have no rational reasons for believing in God or believing that Jesus died for our sins. The person who believes in fairies or unicorns is no different than [...]
Bill Pratt | January 7, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Some naturalists are betting on it, because ultimately physical laws, in their worldview, have to explain everything. For the naturalist, there is nothing but physical reality which is governed by physical laws. That being the case, everything, including the human mind, must be reduced to the purely physical and mechanistic. Philosophers [...]
Bill Pratt | December 22, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt On March 24, 2010, Christian philosopher William Lane Craig debated agnostic philosopher Michael Tooley about whether God exists. I attended the debate and thought I would share a summary with you. Craig opened with 5 well-known arguments for the existence of God (some of which we’ve presented on TQA in the [...]
Bill Pratt | September 25, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt A couple months ago, we featured a 7 minute audio clip from philosopher Peter Kreeft’s lecture on arguments for God’s existence. For this post, we are presenting an additional clip from the lecture – this time on the first cause argument for God’s existence. Again, Kreeft does a wonderful job simplifying [...]
Bill Pratt | September 22, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt I was discussing Hawking’s recent book with a regular blog commenter who mentioned that Hawking’s ideas on the creation of the universe were new and that he hadn’t had time to look into them. This got me thinking about whether Hawking really was on to some new formulation of physics that [...]
