Philochristos

A place for me to say what I think and see what you think.

Friday, January 09, 2026

Why didn't most Jews in the first century believe in Jesus?

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I've been asked a number of times over the years why the vast majority of Jews didn't believe that Jesus was the messiah during h...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

A simple response to the normalizability objection to the fine-tuning argument

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The normalizability objection isn't necessarily an argument against fine-tuning. Rather, it's an argument against the idea that w...
Thursday, December 04, 2025

Stress testing your own apologetic

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Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. ~1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 Let's say you want to design a ...
Monday, December 01, 2025

A new argument for God

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Here's an argument for God I came up with today (11/30/2025). I don't know if it's a good argument. I just came up with it. B...
Sunday, November 30, 2025

Strike Three for the Cosmological Constant?

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It looks like the cosmological constant, aka lambda, aka dark energy has taken another hit. First it was the timescape model, which I blogge...
Saturday, November 29, 2025

What does it mean to believe something?

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When I was a kid, I came to the "realization" that I couldn't actually be certain about anything because for anything I tho...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Does the second law of thermodynamics imply that the universe had a beginning?

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Anybody who has read my origin story knows the prominent role the second law of thermodynamics played in moving me from agnosticism to th...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

ChatGPT plays the role of a Street Epistemologist

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I had another fun conversation with ChatGPT where I asked it to pretent to be a Street Epistemologist who challenged my epistemology, partic...
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I am Sam, I am, and I do not like green eggs and ham. And it doesn't matter whether the eggs are green, the ham is green, or they're both green.
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