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Justin Brierley and the Meaning of Life

Richard Carrier — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 18:47:29 +0000

“These are the reasons,” Justin Brierley says, “that I believe God is the best explanation of human existence, value and purpose” (p. 93). What reasons does he mean? Really, nothing more than a repeated confusion between the obvious natural reasons why we like getting to be alive—and can appreciate much of what we are able […]

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The Objective Value Cascade

Richard Carrier — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 19:14:24 +0000

In the movie Serenity, the crew of a spaceship far in humanity’s future discover the lost planet Miranda, where they discover a dark secret: that a government drug used on its population to make them docile and compliant, actually removed all desires of any kind, with the result that everyone just sat at their desks, […]

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Plantinga’s ‘Two Dozen or So’ Arguments for God: Moral & Other Arguments

Richard Carrier — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:13:06 +0000

Part 3. I just addressed Plantinga’s ontological and metaphysical arguments (A through I) and his epistemological arguments (J through Q). Here I conclude with his moral and other arguments (R through Z; and finally, his whopper of all arguments, the Argument from Reformed Epistemology): III. Moral Arguments Plantinga pretentiously claims there are endlessly many “Moral […]

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Timothy Keller: Dishonest Reasons for God (Chapters 10 to 12)

Richard Carrier — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:31:09 +0000

I began my critique of Keller’s The Reason for God with an exposé of everything up through Chapter 1, then Chapters [2] [3-5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. Here I will cover Chapters 10 through 12. Then I’ll end the series with Chapters 13 and 14. Today, Keller finally gets to his snake oil pitch. All […]

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Bayesian Counter-Apologetics: Ten Arguments for God Destroyed

Richard Carrier — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 23:15:09 +0000

Bayesian counter-apologetics is the method of using Bayesian logic to turn every argument for God into an argument against God, simply by understanding how the logic of evidence works, and then reintroducing all the evidence theists always leave out when they attempt to make an argument for God. Which reveals the fact that all arguments for God, […]

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Get Greta Christina’s Essential Little Book on Death

Richard Carrier — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 01:47:09 +0000

When Greta Christina writes a book on a subject, it’s usually so thorough and well-written you won’t need any other. And her latest e-book (eventually to appear in print as well) continues the tradition. In less than eighty pages, Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God covers every essential base, and […]

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