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Supernaturalism and its Pitfalls
The term God could mean different things depending on the topic. Regardless, however, to use the term “God” to mean both supernaturalism and the theistic God (particularly of the Abrahamic religion) is an inexcusable sloppiness—oft...
The Many Problems of EAAN, Part I
Methodological naturalism (naturalism hereafter) says only that all natural phenomena are best explained by natural causes. Naturalism is a means to an end (that of explaining natural phenomena) and in principle says nothing about the (continued) ...
Supernatural Dimension
I listen to and like the BBC but they often do not seem to be willing to post comments contrary to their honored contributors. In this BBC article, a self-prophesed scientist claims all sorts of pseudoscience/religi...

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Re: The Many Problems of EAAN, Part I
It seems to me that you fail to understand how the EAAN works. It does not, as you seem to think, argue that evolution and naturalism fail to explain how we can have veridical beliefs. Rather, it argues that given what we know of evolution, it is far ...
Re: The Many Problems of EAAN, Part I
I appreciate your detailed response to this blog. An appropriate response to each of your objections would have to wait until this weekend. Here is but a quick reply to one of your comments. What Plantinga has failed to show is that in principle N&E ...
Re: The Many Problems of EAAN, Part I
I've posted your comment on The Bigger Arrogant under that blog. Please follow the link for responses to your comment (part 2). I will respond to your comments on this blog as soon as possible (FYI, I hope to post parts II and III of this blog soon).

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1	Supernatural Dimension I listen to and like the BBC but they often do not seem to be willing to post comments contrary to their honored contributors. In this BBC article, a self-prophesed scientist claims all sorts of pseudoscience/religi...	May 12, 2007
2	Mary Midgley on The God Delusion Midgley's critique of The God Delusion in the October 7-13, 2006 edition of the New Scientist magazine can be summarized as an embarrassing display of lack of understanding of Dawkins’ central arguments.	May 5, 2007
3	The Bigger Arrogant Almost every conversation I’ve had with a religious person leads to the accusation that how could I be so arrogant, so boastful and limited in my imagination as to dismiss the existence of God. In fact, this accusation is so common that even Rich...	Apr 4, 2007