16Oct 2026 by Post

Does This Philosophical View Solve the Problem of Eliminative Materialism?

animism, Baruch Spinoza, consciousness, Edward Feser, electrons, eliminative materialism, explanatory gap, fungi, Hedda Hassel Mørch, Living Cells, materialism, panpsychism, philosophy, Philosophy of Science, plants, principle of sufficient reason, Sam Kimpton-Nye, scientific method
Instead of insisting on the absurdity that nothing is conscious, a scientist can maintain materialism by holding that everything is conscious. Source
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14Oct 2026 by Post

Hell: Eternal Torment or Annihilation? Why George Janko’s View Doesn’t Hold Up

annihilationism, Apologetics, Christianity, Final Judgment, Gospel, Hell, Jason Jiminez, StandStrongMinistries.Org, Theological Apologetics, Theology and Christian Apologetics
The George Janko Show in 2025 discussed the topic of hell, featuring guests like Girls Gone Bible, Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle, Johnny Chang, Bryce Crawford, and Ruslan. The main issue Janko struggles to accept is that people who reject the gospel of Jesus Christ will suffer for all eternity in hell. He advocates for the annihilationist view of hell. George Janko, who happens to be a relatively new Christian, put forth the topic of hell to get the perspective of his guests. He starts by saying, “I think that hell is eternal the place of hell is eternal, but I read Scriptures like ‘do not be afraid of the man who could destroy the body but could destroy the body and the soul in hell’…if you choose to live away…
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13Oct 2026 by Post

With Our Exceptional Place in Nature, Human Reason Is Much More than Machine “Reason”

Aeon, Arizona, artificial inteligence, computer scientists, COSM 2026, David Hume, Education, freedom, friendship, Hugging Face, human exceptionalism, Immanuel Kant, injustice, intelligence, large language models, machines, Neuroscience & Mind, optimisation, philosophers, philosophy, reality check, reason, Sasha Mudd, Scottsdale
Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” Source
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13Oct 2026 by Post

Baylor University: Wolves in Shepherd’s Clothing?

Baylor University, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Christianity on Campus, Dr. Frank Turek, Frank Turek, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, Religious Freedom, theology
What’s going on at Baylor University? After exposing the administrative roadblocks that led to the cancellation of a recent college tour event, Frank returns to address some anticipated objections and dig even deeper into his concerns about the university. He’ll address questions like: How do Marxist principles conflict with biblical teachings on justice and impartiality? How is Baylor violating their own core values on inclusion and diversity? How do some of Baylor’s courses give supposed intellectual justification for violence? What is the purpose of a Christian university? What is the worst advice of the past century? Should academic freedom have limits? How can Christian schools teach other religions and worldviews without compromising biblical truth? Why would a Christian school be tempted to compromise on Christian values? What schools (if any)…
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13Oct 2026 by Post

The Fine-Grained Historicity of Acts – Part 1 

4. Is the NT True?, Apologetics, biblical apologetics, Book of Acts, Christianity, Gospel, historical apologetics, JonathanMclatchie.com, Paul, Undesigend Coincidences
Last year, I published a lengthy essay titled “The Book of Acts is High-Resolution Reportage,” in which I documented and discussed no less than forty undesigned coincidences between Acts and the first four epistles found in our New Testament – i.e., Romans, the Corinthian letters, and Galatians. Cumulatively, this class of evidence supports the historicity of Acts down to the granular detail. In this article, I will strengthen this case still further by adducing an additional set of undesigned coincidences drawn between Acts and the remaining Pauline epistles. Here, [in this 3-part series] I lay out a total of twenty-two examples of interlocking correspondences between Acts and Paul’s epistles. There is one overlap (#9 below) with those covered in my earlier article, since the epistle to the Philippians was of relevance…
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13Oct 2026 by Post

In Debate with Meyer, Matt Dillahunty Brandishes His “Surveys”

Atheism, background knowledge, Big Bang, Big Mysteries Survey, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, Bruce Gordon, cosmology, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, likelihoods, Matt Dillahunty, naturalism, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, Piers Morgan Uncensored, probability theory, Richard Dawkins, spacetime, Stephen Meyer, surveys, theism, universe
Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature. Source
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11Oct 2026 by Post

Back in the Saddle: A Second Edition for The Design Inference

Being as Communion, biological evolution, Brian Skyrms, Cambridge University Press, cancer, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, design inferences, Discovery Institute, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, My Personal History with Information (series), new york, No Free Lunch, peer-review, Rowman and Littlefield, Terence Moore, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert
The big obstacle for me came from feeling at odds with my publisher, Cambridge University Press. Source
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10Oct 2026 by Post

Being as Communion: The Metaphysics of Information

Angus Menuge, Aristotle, Ashgate, Being as Communion, blueprints, Brian Krouse, Claude Shannon, engineers, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Faith & Science, Holy Spirit, information, informational realism, language, logos, metaphysics, mind-body problem, musicians, My Personal History with Information (series), No Free Lunch, ontology, painters, philosophy, Plato, Robert J. Marks II, sculptors, Templeton Foundation, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Trinitarian God
"Painters create information by applying dabs of paint to canvas, sculptors by chiseling away at stone, musicians by writing notes on lined sheets of paper." Source
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09Oct 2026 by Post

Meyer, Dillahunty, Nagel: They Don’t Make Atheists the Way They Used To

analogy, Atheism, Bible, biological information, Closer to Truth, Complexity, DNA, dogmatism, Douglas Adams, Faith & Science, functional specificity, genetics, God of the philosophers, improbability, information, Intelligent Design, Matt Dillahunty, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, New York University, Piers Morgan, Richard Dawkins, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Stephen Meyer, The Telegraph, theists, Thomas Nagel, universe
Dillahunty contended that the biological information coded in DNA isn’t really information at all but only analogous to it. Try to follow this word salad. Source
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