Sunday, April 05, 2026

Easter post - 2026

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Back in the days of the Jesus Seminar, I remember there being debates about whether the resurrection of Jesus was a metaphor. John Domini...
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...