As I’d mentioned at the end of the book of John, the next week’s worth of posts will address some of the different arguments for the existence of God. This is an area that I have a particular passion ...

Our first concern will be Richard Dawkins’s efforts to refute standard arguments for theism. These efforts suffer from a variety of logical mistakes. His critique of the cosmological argument confuses ...

Inductive proofs; the concept of ‘a posteriori’. Cosmological argument: St Thomas Aquinas’ first Three Ways – (motion or change; cause and effect; contingency and necessity). The Kalam cosmological ...

• Presentation: Paley’s analogical argument. • Presentation: Aquinas’ Way 3. The argument from contingency and necessity. • Criticisms: Hume and Russell. Students should study the basis of each ...

According to physics, the universe and everything in it can be explained by just a handful of equations. They’re difficult equations, all right, but their simplest feature is also the most mysterious ...

The far distant fates of the Universe offer a number of possibilities, but if dark energy is truly a constant, as the data indicates, it will continue to follow the red curve, leading to the long-term ...