Saturday, November 20, 2021

Arguing over the meaning of words

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There are two ways that words can come to have meaning--common use and stipulation. Most words we use in every day life get their mean...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

I can't answer every question or objection

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The other day, I saw a comment somebody left on a YouTube channel saying that he went from being a Christian to an atheist because of the...
Sunday, October 10, 2021

Two arguments against the empty tomb

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Most responses to the empty tomb are designed to undermine arguments for the empty tomb. If sound, they don't show that there was no...

He won't last long in the Everglades

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The more I hear about the search for Brian Laundrie, the more it sounds like " The Everglades " song by The Kingston Trio. Ther...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Kyle Royer's plunge grinding jig

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Since my cat won't let me sleep, I thought I'd look up Kyle Royer's plunge grinding jig. This jig is sheer elegance in its si...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

The interaction problem with substance dualism

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The major difficulty with substance dualism is the interaction problem. This is the problem of accounting for how something physical and ...
Monday, August 09, 2021

Fine tuning, the anthropic principle, and the puddle analogy

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According to the fine-tuning argument, the fact that there's this universe in which various constants had to have very precise values...
Sunday, August 08, 2021

What did Jesus say?

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This morning (8/7/2021), I was talking to a couple of family members about houses on beaches. I asked how they built them or what they di...