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Kevin Timpe just posted his discussion for the second half of chapter one in our Knowledge of God reading group.

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There’s a recently discovered tablet that is making headlines. It is claimed that: The tablet predicts a Messiah that will die and be raised from the dead 3 days later, and The tablet is dated before the time of Jesus Christ. Let’s set aside authenticity issues for the moment. I’ll let the archaeologists hash that [...]

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Here’s a recent pop-science article from the LA Times. It’s an interview with physicist, Sean Carroll (Caltech). He discusses the possibility of multiverses and the hypothesis that our universe is an off-shoot of some other universe in the multiverse.

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In my intro classes I like to start off with personal identity. Any continuity view of personal identity is threatened by fission/split-brain cases. When I discuss these cases, a handful of students typically balk at the far-fetched nature of the cases where brains are split and a half survives. It strikes them as even more [...]

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Here’s a piece about an MIT research team study on an Amazonian tribe that has no word for numbers. They use quantifiers like “some”, “all”, and “most”. Is this good news for nominalists?

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I’ve been ranting enough about switching to Ubuntu for professional reasons, that I thought people interested in those posts might be interested in some of these items that I’ve come across today. Here’s a fun list that should be of interest to Linux lovers. This is kind of funny. Dell has discovered a loophole to [...]

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When I first saw this video I was still a little reluctant to jump on the Fox News bashing bandwagon. It’s pretty much an open admission from Murdoch that Fox News manipulates news to push Murdoch’s agenda. And I wasn’t even going to jump on the bandwagon after I found out about the persistant switching [...]

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Article here.

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I just posted my first post in the Knowledge of God reading group over at Prosblogion. I’ll post the first part here. To read the entire post over at Prosblogion click here. A Puzzle for the Proper Function Argument Against Naturalism In chapter one of Knowledge of God, Alvin Plantinga argues that naturalism cannot account [...]

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…is here.

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