Month: May 2012

  • A Brief Treatment of the Problem of Evil

    The problem of evil is usually considered one of the strongest arguments for atheism. In this short post we’ll consider it and possible responses available to the classical theist. The argument goes something like this: If God exists, then he is all-powerful (omnipotent) and all-good (omnibenevolent) and all-knowing (omniscient). If God is all-powerful, then he →

  • A failed analysis of would-counterfactuals

    I was thinking about “would-counterfactuals” the other day and wondering how they’re meant to be understood on a libertarian account of free will that holds to contrary choice as a necessary condition for a free choice. I thought I had come up with some way of giving meaning to statements of the form “Agent S →

  • More than sharing the gospel

    So… let’s talk about apologetics. Christians seem to have very different responses to the idea of apologetics. Some think it is indispensable in the Christian’s life while others sincerely think it’s a bad thing (for various reasons, which we’ll consider further down). To be clear, I fall in the former category. What is Apologetics? It might be →