Plantinga and Gale on God and Evil

One of the most inter­est­ing (and humor­ous) dis­cus­sions I’ve ever seen on the topic of God and evil was one between philoso­phers Alvin Planti­nga and Richard Gale. Planti­nga is notable for two things; he’s regarded as one of the pio­neers in the renais­sance of Chris­t­ian phi­los­o­phy, as it’s called. He’s also con­sid­ered to have put an end to the intel­lec­tual argu­ment from evil. Gale has him­self writ­ten... Read More

Was Jesus who he said he was?

In between school and work (started a new job) I’ve been lis­ten­ing to a lot of Mark Driscoll and his ser­mon on the claims of Jesus is some­thing I would like to share. Watch and enjoy! At least I enjoy, because we’re sim­i­lar in personality.  Read More

But you can prove a negative!

There is no way to dis­prove God. There is also no way to dis­prove uni­corns, lep­rechauns, the Loch ness mon­ster or Odin. The inabil­ity to dis­prove does not prove existence. I hear a lot of peo­ple say this and it sur­prises me, to be very hon­est. This sort of argu­ment is an enthymeme, that enthymeme being “we can’t prove a neg­a­tive”; we can’t prove that God does not exist, or that lep­rechauns, the Lock-ness mon­ster... Read More

Gaunilo’s Island

Gaunilo’s famous objec­tion to Anselm’s Onto­log­i­cal argu­ment is known as ‘Gaunilo’s Island,’ it fol­lows as such from his On Behalf of the Fool: For exam­ple: it is said that some­where in the ocean is an island, which, because of the dif­fi­culty, or rather the impos­si­bil­ity, of dis­cov­er­ing what does not exist, is called the lost island. And they say that this island has an ines­timable wealth of all man­ner... Read More