Cowardly Agnosticism
The charge that agnostics are fence-sitters is older than the internet. What’s new is that half of it now comes from people whose own position is the same withholding.
PhilosophyA collection of 26 posts
Pick One: God and the Problem of Time
The traditional God is unchanging and also responds to us. Put him inside time or outside it, and one of those has to go.
The Line We Can’t Draw: The Orphan and the Pig
We already refuse to farm our most vulnerable. Consistency asks us to mean it.
Who I Am: Why I’m an Agnostic
If you’ve been here before, you might be surprised that agnosticism only ranks third in how I…
Why “Can God Create a Stone So Heavy He Can’t Lift It?” Is a Bad Argument
The problem with the argument is that theists can easily get out of it. They can simply claim that omnipotence does not mean a being can do EVERYTHING. Omnipotence means that a being can do anything logically possible.
A Warning About the Problem of Evil: Handle With Care
Few arguments in the atheist’s toolkit are as famous — or as frequently misused — as Epicurus’…
Why Science and Philosophy Need Each Other
Lately, I have set the science books aside and turned back to philosophy, the field that has…