Category: Naturalism
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The Naturalist’s Version of Fides Quaerens Intellectum
Theism in its various forms faces numerous threats to its truth and coherence. Christianity, for example, is committed to doctrines such as the Trinity whose very coherence is in doubt. And all classical theists face the problem of evil, the problem of reconciling the fact of evil with the existence of a God who is…
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J. P. Moreland on Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism (Part One)
(The following review will be crossposted shortly at Prosblogion. Comments are closed here, but will be open there.) Apart from what Alvin Plantinga calls creative anti-realism, the two main philosophical options for many of us in the West are some version of naturalism and some version of Judeo-Christian theism. As its title indicates, J. P.…
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A Conundrum for Eliminativist Naturalists
A guest post by Peter Lupu. Minor edits by BV. His comments in blue at the end. Suppose I am a naturalist. Then I take science seriously just as Alex Rosenberg counsels.I also provisionally trust Rosenberg's argument, thereby, I find myself inclined to believe the conclusions of Rosenberg’s argument. One of these conclusions is 1) There…
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From Naturalism to Nihilism by Way of Scientism: A Note on Rosenberg’s Disenchantment
The rank absurdities of Alex Rosenberg's The Disenchanted Naturalist's Guide to Reality are being subjected to withering criticism at Ed Feser's weblog here, here and here. But a correspondent wants me to throw in my two cents, so here's a brief comment. In the ComBox to the article linked to above, Rosenberg, responding to critics,…