Probability and the Problem of Evil

I recently finished an essay for my philosophy of knowledge class regarding the problem of evil. Paul Draper argues that naturalism is more probable than theism and that an omni-god is unlikely in a world with evil. The idea of an all-loving, all-knowing, and all-powerful god (hereafter referred to as an omni-god) is very difficult […]

Psychic LTE Published [Times Leader]

I’m not against people who present psychic services with the very clear purpose of entertainment. I’m not against parents who want help to find their children. I’m not against people who seek psychic services and who understand that the services aren’t “real.” What I am against, though, is people who say that they have supernatural […]

Psychic LTE Published [Citizens Voice]

Original Link is here: http://citizensvoice.com/opinion/letters/psychics-good-for-entertainment-but-not-for-serious-matters-1.740314 I’m not against people who present psychic services with the very clear purpose of entertainment. I’m not against parents who want to find help to find their children. I’m not against people who seek psychic services who understand that the services aren’t “real.” What I am against, though, is people […]

Creationism/Intelligent Design in Science Classes

Recent discussions from a FOX News story regarding the terminology of the Christian creation story as a myth have sparked a great deal of debate in the atheist community here, here, and here. Fox News doesn’t give the facts and the entire quote in context…the exact usage of the word “myth” in the science textbook is here: In the 1970s and 1980s, […]