NOTE: This was written by IrishFamer and originally posted on Atheism is Dead (True Freethinker‘s predesesor). Atheists love to claim that their position is negative, that they have nothing to prove, and that theists alone shoulder the burden of proof. Here’s why they’re wrong. Atheists, despite their often self-proclaimed intellectual superiority to their closed-minded and…

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I recall that as a child I had vague notions about the planets in our solar system. Why is ours one way and the others not? Ours has life because it is this certain way—it was the toss of the dice that determined that one would have life and the others not. Their size, their…

This segment of True Freethinker’s essay which considers natural theology, or general revelation, will consider The God of the Bible. The God of the Bible Let us begin considering whether the God of the Bible passes the test of natural theology / general revelation by reviewing the inferences drawn from nature. We will then consider…

I have previously parsed the various claims being made about “Camp Quest”: on the one hand, their public relations statements which go unchallenged and uninvestigated by the media who gives them carte blanche and on the other hand, the actual facts of the matter: see here.Let us take a moment to consider that Camp Quest…

Indeed, a rigidly dogmatic theologian has demanded answers to the questions “Why Won’t God Heal Amputees?” and “Why Does God Hate Amputees?” The theologian has even advanced the issue by proposing an experiment that will, once and for all, ascertain the answer. The theologian has authored a website titled, “Why Won’t God Heal Amputees?” This…

Nicholas Humphrey pokes fun in stating: …let’s take pity on the Baptist teacher who has become wedded to creationism, and let’s give her a vacation. Let’s walk her round the Natural History museum in the company of Richard Dawkins or Dan Dennett-or, if they’re too scary, David Attenborough-and let’s have them explain the possibilities of…

“An objective ethic is a consequentialist ethic that has an ultimate goal that is objectively measurable. It then becomes an objective question whether a particular recommended means will in fact lead to that goal, whether another means might be more effective. The statement “If you want X then you ought to do Y” becomes a…

True Freethinker continues to do the media’s job for them as we parse between various atheist sects free press via public image interviews on the one hand and what they have to say on their own websites on the other. We again are fed the victimhood, martyr, woe is me line: “We aren’t trying to…

Having considered some very basic cosmological natural theology in dealing with the The Flying Spaghetti Monster and The Invisible Pink Unicorns it seemed noteworthy that a new book has been published entitled “The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology.” The book is edited by J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig (one of the many, many…