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Research Post: Afterlife by William Hasker

By barr4267 | April 30, 2012

In this paper I will be talking about the existence of an afterlife as discussed in Hasker’s paper.
Hasker begins his paper by showing that most religions have an idea of survival whether in the mind of God or through a cycle of re-birth.
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Skeptical Theism

By barr4267 | April 20, 2012

In class we’ve been discussing skeptical theism and a story was brought up by Dr. Cullison. In this story you are traveling to a new town and everyone you meet says you have to go say hello to Farmer Brown because he’s the world’s most upstanding guy. They say to go to his farm and [...]

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Must God Create The Best?

By barr4267 | April 12, 2012

In class we’ve been discussing the best of all worlds argument. This argument says that if there is a OOO-being, He would create the best possible world for us to live in. Since our world is not the best it could be, one could come to the conclusion that there is no OOO-being. I would [...]

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The Problem of Evil

By barr4267 | April 6, 2012

This past week we’ve been discussing the problem of evil. The issue began with the argument that if there is a OOO-being, then that being would have the means and the knowledge to prevent all evil from happening, and if there is said being then there wouldn’t be any evil. There is evil however so [...]

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Principle of Credulity

By barr4267 | March 22, 2012

The principle of credulity, according to Alston, says: as long as a seeming has no rebutters (anything that proves the seeming false) or underminers (the experience doesn’t have its usual force) then you are justified in believing the seeming is true. Now, Alston also says that the main reason for accepting the principle of credulity [...]

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Philosophy of Religion: The Ontological Argument

By barr4267 | February 24, 2012

We just began discussing the ontological argument in class on Thursday. We quickly went over Anselm’s version which says:
1. God, (a being than which none greater is possible) exists in the understanding
– So far this is a decent argument. We can agree that God would have [...]

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Pholosophy of Religion: Intelligent Design

By barr4267 | February 8, 2012

In class on Tuesday we were discussing the different theories of intelligent design. We were using the example of eyes, hearts and other biological objects as proof for intelligent design. After a bit we came to the conclusion that these are not very good examples to use seeing how they can be easily explained by [...]

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Philosophy of Religion: Some puzzles concerning omnipotence

By barr4267 | January 29, 2012

George Mavrodes wrote an article that brought up the topic of an all powerful being. He asked the question “Can God create a stone too heavy for Him to lift?” Mavrodes later goes on to say that every option of this style of question fails due to the fact that it is a self-contradictory question. [...]

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