BY: Gracjan Kraszewski Part 1 of this series explained why a society that reads good books, consumes good art, understands the objective reality of truth
In today’s world, smart phones are common tools. Most of us know loosely how they work, or at least we are not surprised by what
In a recent essay in the National Catholic Register, author Joseph Pearce identified the atheism championed by Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion as easy
Richard Dawkins presents his central argument in The God Delusion as not only rescuing Darwinian evolution from absurdity (p. 122) but as demonstrating “why there
So what if Richard Dawkins can’t count to seven? He is still a mathematician in accordance with the adage, “There are three kinds of mathematicians:
Many people argue that God is not going to send those who refuse to love Him and obey Him to everlasting hell like He has
As humans we can only concentrate on one thing at a time, so we divide our search for truth into separate disciplines. Philosophy is the
Two false arguments for God’s existence are an old one, the a priori argument of St. Anselm, and a current one, the argument from probability.
The denial of the concept of sin is the denial of one facet of intelligibility, yielding freedom without order, which is inanity. A sin is
Is the existence of God probabilistic? It is if human intellectual knowledge is the inference of probability. This essay is intended (1) to acknowledge that
When I first read Bob Drury’s article, “Bayesian Reasoning in Religious Studies”, I remarked to him tongue-in-cheek that Bayesian reasoning proves the reports of
Substantial change, creation, and evolution are commonly acknowledged to be topics in philosophy, theology, and science, respectively. The integration of theology with philosophy within human
I propose to give the New Atheists, and specifically Richard Dawkins, a fair shake by elucidating the innovative philosophy implicit in the New Atheism and
Almost 70 years ago a famous but now somewhat forgotten debate took place on BBC radio between Bertrand Russell and Rev. C. J. Copleston,
It has been the consistent teaching of the Church that the existence of God can be known through nature apart from revelation. “Ever since the
We may be wary of the truth. Rather than setting us free, we may fear it will impose an obligation. We may be reluctant to
If we were to follow Richard Dawkins as our guide, we would conclude that living creatures are not created. Opposing Arguments Differ in Defining
The dispute, ‘Intelligent Design’ vs. Neo-Darwinism, is philosophical, namely whether the origin of biological forms is rational or random. The ‘ID’ side proceeds from the
Poor Richard Dawkins! He’s a bright lad, but he just can’t help stepping in it, can he? Now he’s gone and insulted those of us
Oftentimes the new atheists, including Richard Dawkins, are dismissed as offering nothing new, but simply expressing an evangelic fervor in spreading atheism. This could not
“The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics.” Galileo Galilei “Certain it is that a conviction, akin
One of my favorite clichés to refer to when talking about atheism has been that human cliché Richard Dawkins. Nobody just reads his books, we
