Issue · 2014
Vol. 1, Iss. 3
10 articles · All issues →
ArticlesScandal of the Evangelical Mind: A Biblical and Scientific Critique of Young-Earth Creationism
Bruce L. Gordon
Young-earth creationism (YEC) is one of the more peculiar manifestations of broader evangelical culture. It continues to be the most common view of the relationship between science and Scripture held in the evangelical community and, unfortunately but understa…
10 Oct 2014- Author Meets Critics - Session II
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29 Nov 2014 - Author Meets Critics - Session II
Precis of Derk Perebooms Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life
Gregg D. Caruso
Derk Perebooms Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life (2014) provides the most lively and comprehensive defense of free will skepticism in the literature. It contains a reworked and expanded version of the view he first developed in Living without Free Will (2…
29 Nov 2014 - Articles
The Wager Renewed: Believing in God is Good for You
Justin P. McBrayer
Not all of our reasons for belief are epistemic in nature. Some of our reasons for belief are prudential in the sense that believing a certain thing advances our personal goals. When it comes to belief in God, the most famous formulation of a prudential reason…
25 Sept 2014 - Book Review
A Chosen Calling: Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century by Noah J. Efron
Mark Zelcer
1920s United States saw the publishing of numer- ous popular science textbooks in Yiddish, like Z. P. Nathans’ Populere erḳlerung fun Aynshṭayn’s relaṭiṿiṭeṭ ṭeorye (Popular Explanations of Einstein’s…
11 Aug 2014 - Book Review
Why Beliefs Matter: Reflections on the Nature of Science by E. Brian Davies
Mark Zelcer
Why Beliefs Matter is a book of philosophy, science, and religion written for a lay audience. Comprised of five loosely connected chapters dealing with a plethora of interesting themes, the book is principally a polemic against inserting metaphysical assumptio…
24 Sept 2014 - Author Meets Critics - Session II
Review of Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life, by Derk Pereboom
John Martin Fischer
Mark Twain once said about Wagner’s music: “It is not as bad as it sounds.” Similarly, Derk Pereboom has convinced most of us working in this field that moral responsibility skepticism, at least of his kind, is not as bad as it sounds. Indeed…
29 Nov 2014 - Author Meets Critics - Session II
Free Will Skepticism and Obligation Skepticism: Comments on Derk Pereboom's Free Will Agency, and Meaning in Life
Dana Kay Nelkin
Derk Pereboom’s Living Without Free Will (2001) is an outstanding book that rightly changed the debate over an ancient problem. I am certain that Free Will Skepticism, Agency, and Meaning in Life will join the first book as a must-read for anyone in the…
29 Nov 2014 - Author Meets Critics - Session II
Responses to John Martin Fischer and Dana Nelkin
Derk Pereboom
I first want to thank John Fischer for his generous appraisal of the book, and for his astute and challenging comments on my treatment of the manipulation argument in Chapter 4. Fischer’s core strategy for resisting this argument is (at least initially)…
29 Nov 2014 - Book Review
The Star of Bethlehem: A Skeptical View by Aaron Adair
Michael R. Molnar
The subject of the Star of Bethlehem has attracted much attention and produced many theories about what may have appeared in the skies, marking the birth of Jesus as Christians believe. Details of the ce- lestial event given in the New Testament Bible are vagu…
24 Oct 2014