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America, Religious Freedom, and the Natural Law

May 13, 2012Tom Van Dyke 115 Comments

A recent George Weigel commencement address. Defending Religious Freedom in Full: A Generation’s Challenge “[A] special word of thanks, today, to the parents of today’s graduates — and the grandparents, and the other family members — who have helped bring… Continue Reading →

Atheism, Constitutional Law, Political Theory, Religion natural law, religious freedom, weigel

About Tebow Time

January 13, 2012Tom Van Dyke 205 Comments

According to a recent poll Hispanic fans also feel that a holy power is helping the Broncos quarterback as 81 percent of those polled believe God is behind Tebow, compared to 59.5 percent among blacks and 38 percent among whites.… Continue Reading →

Atheism atheists, tebow

John & Yoko’s Happy X-Mas: Not Very Happy

December 23, 2011Tom Van Dyke 3 Comments

[Do stick around for the punchline.] So I’m in the local liquor store here in SoCal, owned by the Mexican Mafia and clerked by Armenians, buying a few oil cans of Foster’s green, the ale, not the blue one, the… Continue Reading →

Atheism, Political Theory, Religion

Towards Mending a “Total Disconnect”

November 21, 2011Tim Kowal 58 Comments

My daughter turned four months old yesterday, and I realized that since her birth, it is still getting more difficult, not less, to find time to write here.  For a while, she was taking extended naps and encouraging my wife… Continue Reading →

Atheism atheism, existence of God, metaphysics

The Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God

April 9, 2011Tim Kowal 20 Comments

Here is the argument, made famous by Greg Bahnsen, stated as succinctly as I can manage: By rejecting God, one implicitly rejects the only nonarbitrary basis for positing the existence of morality, order, causation, induction, sets, logic, numbers, and a… Continue Reading →

Atheism atheism, Greg Bahnsen, tag, transcendental argument

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