📚 Research archive for resources defending Atheism in the analytic philosophy of religion.
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Mar 31, 2024 • 18 tweets • 9 min read
🧵Did Jesus rise from the Dead?🧵
Happy Easter everyone. The resurrection is one of the central tenets of Christianity.
Here is a list of good scholarly and philosophical resources that take a skeptical perspective on the resurrection:
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Naturalism and the Resurrection: A Reply to Gary Habermas by Stephen T. Davis (1985)
Contemporary Christian Doubts about the Resurrection by J.A. Keller (1988)
🧵Aquinas for Atheists: Resources on Thomism for Skeptics🧵
Though online Thomists often sully his reputation, I think anybody interested in the philosophy of religion deserves to take the work of St. Thomas Aquinas seriously, that especially goes for philosophical Atheists
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To help with this task, I've put together a list of books and articles/resources that I've found to be helpful in my own investigations of Aquinas and his work:
Books:
Saint Thomas Aquinas by G.K. Chesterton (1933)
First Glance At Thomas Aquinas by Ralph McInerny (1989)
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Dec 24, 2023 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
@efajeta Good thread. I agree that the cumulative case for Theism's explanatory power is the best way to argue for God's existence. Swinburne's work is par excellence in this field. That said, many Naturalists/Atheists have offered powerful rejoinders to many of these arguments.🧵
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@efajeta For the question of why anything exists, which has to do with Leibnizian Cosmological Arguments from Contingency, Atheist philosophers have offered plenty of scholarly rejoinders on this question. The thread below is a great start:
🧵Necessary Responses to Cosmological Arguments from Contingency🧵
When it comes to natural theology, Leibnizian Cosmological Arguments from Contingency are considered among the strongest arguments for Theism by many philosophers and apologists. @Trent_Horn, @CapturingChrist
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Michael Jones (@InspiringPhilos), @BishopBarron, and many others all think very highly of these types of arguments.
It is generally felt that Atheists/Non-Theists have no answers to such arguments and that the question of "why there is something rather than nothing?" is
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Nov 10, 2023 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
🧵Fine-Tuned Responses to Fine-Tuning Arguments🧵
Given the recent release of @Philip_Goff's book, there has been a lot of discussion on fine-tuning arguments. This is great to see. The FTA is really interesting and spans a wide range of disciplines. However, while there are /1
plenty of bad responses to the argument, there seems to be an overconfidence among apologists who consider the argument undefeatable.
Below is a thread of some good scholarly responses that are freely available which serve as good critiques of different variants of the FTA.
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