As I’d mentioned at the end of the book of John, the next week’s worth of posts will address some of the different arguments for the existence of God. This is an area that I have a particular passion ...

Last May, Stephen Hawking gave a talk at Google's Zeitgeist Conference in which he declared philosophy to be dead. In his book The Grand Design, Hawking went even further. "How can we understand the ...

Our first concern will be Richard Dawkins’s efforts to refute standard arguments for theism. These efforts suffer from a variety of logical mistakes. His critique of the cosmological argument confuses ...

Can Cosmology Prove or Disprove Creation? | RealClearScienceWhatever begins has a cause. Big Bang cosmology tells us that the universe has a beginning. Therefore, the universe as a whole has a cause; ...

The Argument from Design purports to demonstrate the existence of God by citing as evidence the appearance of design or purpose in the natural world. This argument differs from the others we have ...

Several physicists, among them Hawking, Page, Coule, and Carroll, have argued against the probabilistic intuitions underlying fine-tuning arguments in cosmology and instead propose that the canonical ...

• Presentation: Paley’s analogical argument. • Presentation: Aquinas’ Way 3. The argument from contingency and necessity. • Criticisms: Hume and Russell. Students should study the basis of each ...