William Blake's "God Blessing the Seventh Day" Source: William Blake/Wikimedia Commons In 2013, I published an article in the journal Think titled “Do Souls Exist.” In 2016, I wrote “Does Free Will ...
Does God exist? Asks the ego. We take the question seriously. The ego has succeeded. In listening to the question, we have ...
Now, it is logically impossible for there to exist nothing but contingent beings. As the great Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) noted back in the 13 th century, whatever depends upon another for its ...
This article originally appeared on The Conversation. The question of whether a god exists is heating up in the 21st century. According to a Pew survey, the percent of Americans having no religious ...
The night I began reading Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s “36 Arguments for the Existence of God,” I didn’t get far before I fell asleep. But I did have good dreams all night long: well-lit, active and ...
The most common critique leveled at New Atheists is that we attack only puerile, fundamentalist forms of religion, and never engage with the “best” arguments of the faithful: those adumbrated by ...
Oxford University Press gets the prize for the year's snappiest book title: "God?" As the subtitle explains, this is "A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist" about whether God exists, one of ...
ARLINGTON — Heinz Lycklama is a churchgoer. Francis Barden is not. Barden started questioning religious doctrine in childhood. Lycklama is a devout Christian. They have chatted about their differences ...