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Trains and Chains and God as First Cause

Bob Drury May 9, AD2021 2 Comments

Trains and chains are popular analogies used to illustrate the argument for a First Cause, whom we call God. See: Reasons to Believe (p. 32)

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Problems in Contingency I: Serial Contingency and Polytheism

Bob Drury February 12, AD2019 2 Comments

The argument for God as the first cause of serial contingency is an argument for polytheism. However, the argument fails because God cannot confer on

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causality, miracle, creation, God, morality, man

Trains and Chains and God as First Cause

Bob Drury June 27, AD2018 2 Comments

  Trains and chains are popular analogies used to illustrate the argument for a First Cause, whom we call God. See: Reasons to Believe (p.

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Faith, Reason, and the Transgender Movement

Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg October 28, AD2016 5 Comments

The transgender movement is wholly incompatible with faith and reason. Even though God wants us all to achieve salvation, He gives us the unbearable compliment

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