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A three-stage moral argument that does not attempt to ground the existence of moral values and duties in God.

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A response to the claim that nonbelief is never justified.

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Including a justifiable metaphysics!

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Fedora offers a critique of biblical morality.

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A dialogue.

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A powerful objection to the likelihood version of the cosmological fine-tuning argument is explored.

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Does evil even exist? Payton Alexander applies St. Augustine's ancient Privatio Boni to the Problem of Evil.

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Does 1 Timothy condemn what Leviticus condemns? Payton Alexander offers a rebuttal to Machen's recent response to his article in the context of an analysis of Leviticus and 1 Timothy.

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A brief biography of Einstein's thought as it pertains to philosophy.

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A polemical discussion on homosexuality and religion.

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A rejoinder to Payton's points on homosexuality and Timothy 1:9-10

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A Christian apologist explains why homosexuality is not condemned by 1 Timothy 1:9-10.

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A brief presentation of a Thomistic cosmological argument.

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Fedora responds to the criticisms raised by Payton Alexander.

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Nihilism, as propounded by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and their contemporaries, is a position that is both logically inconsistent and impossible to live by, and thus ought to be discarded.

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A response to Fedora's assessment of Objective Morality and the Bible.

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The new atheism has some defining characteristics. First of all, there are four authors who are its most vociferous proponents: Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris. These four authors are the most frequently recurring names in the literature of responding theists ranging from the extremely conservative to extremely liberal; thus they are the four who will be considered in this work.

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A new UP.net user briefly discusses whether or not the Bible poses a problem for morality within the Abrahamic traditions.

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Urban Philosophy contributor Nocterro offers a response to an argument from evil.

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A response to some recent criticisms.

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A now former atheist accounts for his move to theism.

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Further explaining the Neo-Confucian theory of warrant and responding to Bolt's recent criticisms.

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What does it mean to say that we love somebody? What actions could we use in determining whether some person loves another?

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A response to Bolt's opening statement.

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People often suppose that in the absence of God, there is no objective morality. Why, though, do we presume this to be the case? Can there be objective morality without God?

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A brief mention about some projects that are happening, and an overall thank you to the community.

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Announcing a new location.

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What is Molinism? What does it say about God's sovereignty and man's free will?

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Accepting Luke Muehlhauser's challenge. How might my position on the existence of God change after following a comprehensive reading list?

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What is the relationship between the moral autonomy of human beings and the existence of God?

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Given a modified definition of omnipotence, the previously presented argument fails to establish its conclusion.

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An analysis of an atheistic argument presented by philosopher of religion Theodore Drange.

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A transcript of a discussion with a presuppositionalist.

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Is a conventionalist justification of logic coherent? What implications does this have on the TAG/presuppositionalism?

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What problems do we currently face in the Philosophy of Religion in regards to God's existence besides the question of whether he does or not? There are still problems which need solutions and this article explores some such problems.

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A response to a recent criticism on "The Folly of the New Atheist"

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Might an argument which combines points from the traditional "Big Three" offer a convincing argument for the existence of God?

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Recently a debate took place between a theist and a 'New Atheist' which outlines precisely what is wrong with the 'New Atheist' community. Rather than emerging as the superior intellect they often claim to be, they simply come out looking like a fool.

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Euthyphro's dilemma is often presented as being of some trouble for the theist. It is also often presented by the theist as being a false dilemma. Are either of these presentations accurate? What does Euthyphro's dilemma really force us to conclude about morality and God?

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Phronesis will return in the spring of 2010!

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God is generally thought of as a perfect being. This seems to entail that God is perfectly virtuous, but what does it mean to say that God exemplifies virtue? Is this idea coherent in light of such a virtue as courage?

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An analysis of the "Possible Disproof of God's Existence" in light of Chris Bolt's recent objection.

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In a follow up to a previous post on this topic, Mitch LeBlanc attempts to be more direct and meet some of RK's argument head-on.

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David Smart has offered a brief objection. Oddly enough, his objection merely shows that he actually agrees with the argument.

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Might certain attributes of God conflict with each other? Mitch LeBlanc briefly presents an argument which purports to show that being triune or omniscient conflicts with omnipotence.

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Revisiting the Anthropic Argument and objections.

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Both theists and atheists have been known to present bad arguments in support of their positions. Nocterro takes a brief look at some of the more popular poor argumentation strategies.

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Following the lead of Agrippa's Trilemma, Vagon utilizes a practical application of its consequences with relation to Plantinga's Modal Ontological Argument.

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What consequences might Agrippa's Trilemma have for certainty? Vagon from WeAreSMRT.com presents a brief overview.

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In another response to "The Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God," David Smart offers his criticism of the arguments within.

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If the Christian God has pre-ordained all of existence, does it make sense to speak of "possible worlds" or modal propositions in general? Some people have claimed this, but further analysis into God's perfection and immutability seems required to make a case either way.

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Chris Bolt of Choosing Hats has offered some criticism on my paper regarding the Transcendental Argument. This post is a transcript of our discussion on those criticisms.

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Is the Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God sound? In this paper I contend that it is not, for various reasons.

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Is the idea of an omniscient being coherent? What if there exists beings who, by their nature, always successfully hide from omniscient beings?

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Mitch's ongoing discussion with Chris Bolt on presuppositionalism continues in this response to another one of Bolt's criticisms.

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A very brief introduction to a relatively new argument against the existence of God. The argument attempts to show that the mere existence of human beings shows that God does not exist.

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Chris Bolt recently complained about a wealth of inconsistencies in the writings of Mitchell LeBlanc, specifically those in his last post. Are these inconsistencies real or are they simply the result of Bolt's misunderstanding?

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This H1N1 pandemic has sparked a lot of wild claims regarding the vaccination. What is the truth?

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A brief look at the correlation between the development of communication technology and the censorship of ideas.

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A response to Chris Bolt on Classical/Evidentialist apologetics vs. Presuppositionalism. Is presuppositionalism truly superior or is just mistaken?

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In his most comprehensive post in the series, Mitchell LeBlanc further refines his previous arguments and presents new critiques of the Presuppositional apologetic approach.

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Mitchell LeBlanc gives a succinct reformulation of his Case Against Presuppositionalism and responds to a few preliminary objections.

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The presuppositionalist apologetic method is being employed by increasingly more Christians. Unfortunately, the apologetic system is dead on arrival.

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The view espoused by many of the "new atheists" which states that scientific interpretations of reality are superior to all others is, ironically, a religion unto itself.

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Examining religious claims from a secular perspective. Do religions share a common, critically valid basis with each other?

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Mitch LeBlanc's final response to Chris Bolt on the issue of Induction and the Christian God

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In this post, I take the opportunity to satisfy Bolt's curiosity as to my own position and offer an additional critique of Christianity's escape from the proposed problem of induction.

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Mitchell LeBlanc clears up some of the misunderstandings espoused in Chris Bolt's reply.

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Mitch LeBlanc responds to Chris Bolt's criticism of his previous article.

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Presuppositionalists often assert that only Christianity can account for the uniformity of nature and subsequently, the use of inductive reasoning. Should we accept this?

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MitchLeBlanc responds to a video posted on Chris Bolt's blog in which Bolt critiques one of the questions asked by MitchLeBlanc in his debate with RazorsKiss.

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In the 1996 debate between Quentin Smith and William Lane Craig, Smith makes the bold claim that Cosmological arguments are arguments for atheism rather than theism. In this article, MitchLeBlanc outlines the basic points of contention of these two great philosophers.

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An analysis of belief, with attention to the biological origins.

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A transcript of the debate between RazorsKiss (presuppositionalist) and MitchLeBlanc (atheist).

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A transcript of the debate between Fisher (Christian) and Hackenslash (atheist).

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In "The God Delusion," Richard Dawkins makes quite a few glaring errors in his critique on scripture. In particular, he borrows some popular arguments based on the original biblical languages and what they meant, but his assertions regarding them are based on insufficient evidence and spurious scholarship.

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The Kalam Cosmological argument has been a staple argument for many apologists. In this article an attempt is made to show why the Kalam fails to establish its conclusion.

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Examining the divine attribute of omnipotence.

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A jewish perspective on God, religion, and ethics.

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A response to the claim that the story of Jesus Christ is borrowed from pagan religions.

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Taking a look at a common debate in philosophy.

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A rejection of social and cultural traditions.

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Episode 3 of Phronesis - an UrbanPhilosophy project.

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Examining the language of religious positions.

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Examining the thoughts of Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant on the external world.

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An analysis of assuming altruism.

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A critique of a religious stance on life, the universe, and (almost) everything.

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A brief explanation of a common greeting in eastern cultures.

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Episode 2 of Phronesis - an UrbanPhilosophy project.

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Episode 1 of Phronesis - an UrbanPhilosophy project.