An outline of the Kalam Cosmological Argument as it is defended by Dr. William Lane Craig, which is one of the most power and convincing proofs for the existence of God.

A simple, five-step argument reasoning from the existence of meaning to the existence of God.

“The first question which should rightly be asked is this: why is there something rather than nothing?” Based on the principle of Sufficient Reason G.W.F. Leibniz formulated the following cosmological argument for God’s existence.

A brief outline of the Thomistic Cosmological Argument from Existential Causality, two possible refutations are considered, and a brief look at what we could deduce about God if the argument is successful.

The god-of-the-gaps argument is used most often as an objection to the arguments of natural theology advanced by philosophers and theologians who explain the gaps in scientific knowledge as specific acts of God. It is a variant of the argument from ignorance which is a logical informal fallacy. But there are some consideration which blunt the force of the objection.

Philosopher Bill Vallicella has started a new series on eliminative materialism. The introduction, ‘Defining Eliminative Materialism’, is worth reading if you’ve been following the debate here on Talk regarding whether abstracta are possible in a non-theistic worldview, and would like to better familiarize yourself with the topic.

Apologist Dr. Phil Fernandes presents a series of lectures on Apologetics Methodologies, Past and Present. Original web page here. To make things easier, you can download these lectures directly to iTunes as a podcast.

If the Global Warming cultural phenomenon is not sustained by science, the question is what is sustaining it? Why has it gathered so much momentum? Some suggestions are made. As a case study of the interaction between science and religion, it is very interesting. Some further resources are given.

This episode of ID the Future (MP3 here) tells the story of Jesse Kilgore, a college student whose loss of faith and subsequent suicide has been linked to his biology class and Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. After his professor challenged him to read the anti-theistic book and rule out the possibility of God’s existence in light of the evidence for evolution, Jesse experienced a crisis of faith. Now his father is arguing for academic freedom for intelligent design and critiques of Darwin’s theory.

An argument undercutting non-theistic attempts to defend their value systems, by demonstrating that value itself is incoherent in a universe without God.