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Here’s a link to a transcript of a recent debate between William Lane Craig and Bart Ehrman entitled “Is There Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus?”

Here’s a recorded interview with the Intelligent Designer. I like his shades.

OK, I’m back from vacation and well-rested. Writing-wise, I’m currently finishing an epistemology paper on inferential justification and skepticism. Reading-wise, I’m wrapping up Trenton Merricks’ interesting book Objects and Persons, in which he defends the interesting thesis that conscious organisms are the only macrophysical objects there are. On his view, things like chairs, statues, brains,… Read More »

This is funny. (HT: Victor Reppert)

In comments on an earlier thread, both Ocham and Brandon express perplexity over my defense of the impossibility of traversing an actually infinite past. Before responding, I must first elaborate a bit on the potential / actual infinite distinction. The distinction goes back to Aristotle and is pivotal in his response to Zeno’s paradoxes. Basically,… Read More »

Is it possible for there to be an omniscient being? Patrick Grim doesn’t think so. Before looking at his arguments directly (which I’ll save for a later post), I think it would be helpful to take a step back and reflect a bit on what omniscience could be. First, omniscience is supposed to be a… Read More »

In my previous post on this topic I argued (a) that Craig’s argument against the possibility of actually infinite collections of real things doesn’t work given presentism, and (b) Craig’s argument against the possibility of traversing an actually infinite series in finite, step-wise fashion doesn’t work given a B-theory of time. My post generated quite… Read More »

As satire goes, this is pretty funny. Here’s my favorite: Richard Dawkins: To say that it took a Darwinist to do the screwing in of the lightbulb is to explain precisely nothing. The obvious question becomes: Who did the screwing to create the Darwinist screwer? And who did the screwing to create that screwer? There… Read More »

One of the reasons I named this blog ‘Alanyzer’ is because that’s an anagram of “analyzer”, which is what I like to do. I just discovered a cool website that generates anagrams from a target input phrase into one of several different languages. To my chagrin, anagrams of my full name ‘Alan Robert Rhoda’ include:… Read More »

William Lane Craig has done much in recent years to develop and defend what’s now known as the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God. The core of the argument runs as follows: Whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a cause. As it stands… Read More »