From O’Reilly to God’s Existence

Attention Philosophers of Religion and Theologians: You’ve been asking the wrong questions! You’ve been asking, “Why is there something rather than nothing?” You should have been asking, “Why is there Bill O’Reilly, rather than no Bill O’Reilly?” Surely the fool must admit that there is a God when he reflects on that question! I kid [...]

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Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New ‘Intelligent Falling’ Theory

(Clip from The Onion) KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held “theory of gravity” is flawed, and they have responded [...]

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Knowledge of God Reading Group (Week 1)

Andrew Moon just kicked of our Knowledge of God Reading Group over at Prosblogion with a discussion of the first thirty pages from chapter 1.

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The Super Mario Multiverse

Calling all metaphysicians! Would you like a simplified explanation of the multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics? Would you like it to be presented to you using Super Mario World? Well, look no further. Interesting Philosophical ApplicationsMetaphysical ModalitySome people think that the parallel universes in the multiverse hypothesis could play the role of Lewisian Possible Worlds. [...]

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Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy

In the last few hours, I’ve stumbled on quite a few cool bits of philosophy… 1. Mike Almeida has a pretty interesting post on Multiverse responses to a variety of versions of the Problem of Evil here. 2. Carrie Jenkins just suggested that we might be able to handle Kripkenstein Undetermination Worries in a (roughly) [...]

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