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This is false. One could simply say that they don't know the origin of the world, or have a philosophy on life. Of course that would leave you with nothing to counterattack instead of answering these questions. I don't see AS as trying to preempt the discussion, but rather posit, rather non-controv...

Based on what I know about his past theoretical layings waste, I have to assume that the promised portion of the chapter of his forthcoming book will be every bit as theoretically ascendant. Wonderful news! Wonderful! I am pumped for Will. I wonder who is publishing his book. Will it be available o...

Over at the appropriately named MAD Board, Will is boasting about is his soon-to-be published article on the Book of Abraham http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/56004-Book%20of%20Abraham-reverse-translation/page_st_20 . Um...as has been noted in some recent comments, it's not an "article,"...

Blixa wrote:Bumping for more replies to an interesting thread...

I've been delinquent. Thanks for the bump, Blixa.

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I appreciate all the responses so far. There's no grand point to the thread, and I really don't have much to contribute, personally.

I was just curious, so thought I'd ask.

Doubting was a weigh station for me between being a TBM and becoming a non-believing evidentialist/reliabilist. And I did not consider other religious beliefs as an alternative when going from point A (TBM) to point Z (a non-believing evidentialist/reliabilist). However, in addition to doubting, th...

That's not an invariable progression, but it doesn't appear to be an atypical one, either. My empirical data for that claim is pretty spotty. It consists almost entirely in my reading of Mormon-themed message boards. It's pretty look-around-town-ish, to be sure. For those atheists who fit the patter...

But, yeah. When I read Mackie, I thought: Duh. Of course he is correct. Josh Rasmussen changed my mind with a paper from Religious Studies, here is the abstract: An important question raised in the Molinist debate is, ‘Given God's access to counterfactual knowledge, could God create a world in whic...

Milesius wrote:I hope you are being facetious.

The "points" of my so-called Calvinism are innumerable.

As a defense against the logical problem of evil (à la Plantinga's Free Will Defender), it ably succeeds. But that's a pretty low bar. I use to think so too, but I’ve come to change my mind on this. In Plantinga’s case, I think his use of middle knowledge leads to some problems, I think that counte...

Moreover, from other statements he's made, I assume he rejects the idea of libertarian free will. I think his theology is reformed. I'm almost certain he is a Calvinist. He is. I was being circumspect because I couldn't recall whether he admitted the truth of this heinous charge on the old MADBoard...