by Robert Bobbitt | Mar 6, 2017 | Introduction
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION: THEISTS WHO BELIEVED IN LAWS OF NATURE In the1600s and 1700s, the “scientific revolution,” resulted in an explosion of discoveries as compared to the rest of history. An age of scientific discovery has continued since the time of Kepler, Galileo...
by Robert Bobbitt | Mar 5, 2017 | Meaning
Actor Joaquin Phoenix: “I don’t believe in god. I don’t believe in an afterlife. I don’t believe in soul. I don’t believe in anything…To me it’s a pretty preposterous idea.” Actor Bruce Willis: “Organized religions...
by Robert Bobbitt | Feb 28, 2017 | Suffering, Things That Don't Make Sense
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE IMPOSSIBILITY ARGUMENT? In our last blog, we explored the “impossibility argument,” or what philosophers call “the logical problem of evil” and concluded it was false. It’s entirely possible for for an all-powerful...
by Robert Bobbitt | Feb 28, 2017 | Suffering, Things That Don't Make Sense
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE THE IMPOSSIBILITY ARGUMENT? Up until the 1960s, critics of theism, like Epicurus and David Hume, said that the following two statements could NOT possibly both be true: 1. God is all-powerful and all-good. 2. Suffering exists. Philosophers call...
by Robert Bobbitt | Feb 27, 2017 | Suffering, Things That Don't Make Sense
ATHEIST PHILOSOPHER DAVID HUME “Were a stranger to drop suddenly into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field strewn with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the...
