Levels of Energy
The Moral Landscape’s Definition of Good
Was Your Brain Intelligently Designed?
The Atheist Nightmare asks, “If you want to claim that your brain was not intelligently designed, then shouldn’t your entire belief system come into question? It would seem to me that you would have no reason to trust your own thoughts.” So this is not just about creationism vs evolution. Here is my response.
Black Christians are not Uncle Toms
Dusty Smith, of the Cult of Dusty YouTube channel, has claimed that black Christians are Uncle Toms. The argument goes that the Bible was used to justify the slave trade, and by endorsing the Bible, black Christians are endorsing as the word of God the scriptures used to justify the enslavement of their ancestors. It is true that the Bible was used to justify slavery. However, justification is not the same thing as explicitly calling for something.
The Impossibility of Omniscience
Do you need to be omniscient to know that God doesn’t exist? Not if God is supposed to be omniscient. If God is omniscient, as many philosophers, theologians, and apologists have claimed, all you need to know is that omniscience is impossible.
How can we trust our senses and thoughts?
It is claimed that only the existence of God can provide a proper basis for trusting our thoughts and senses. Let’s examine this idea.
Morality or Meaning Without God?
Four different arguments for the existence of God claim that God is required to account for objective moral right and wrong, evil, value, and the meaning of life. This post critically examines all four claims.
Solutions to Proofs with the Rules of Inference
This post and video go over the solutions to the proofs assigned as homework in the Proofs with the Rules of Inference post and video.
Proofs with the Rules of Inference
This post and video begin to explain how to do proofs in symbolic logic using the rules of inference. At the end, it includes some proofs to try on your own.
Material Equivalence and the Rules of Replacement
This post and the video inside introduce material equivalence, which is the property of having the same truth value, in symbolic logic, as well as the rules of replacement, which let you replace some logical expressions with materially equivalent logical expressions.