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For a significant subset of Christians, terms like “evolution” and “Big Bang” evoke disgust and disdain. Such people don’t just think evolution is wrong, they think it is a lie perpetrated by God haters who want to lead people astray. Not all Christians go quite this far, but many do find evolution and the Big…

This post concerns the following video from Stand To Reason. It’s short, so give it a watch and then see my reply below. Greg’s claim is that the problem of evil (hereafter PoE) is not really much of a problem for Christian theism. What makes it exempt, apparently, is that evil is a central theme…

Rather than a live debate, what you are about to hear is an audio performance of an already written debate that’s been going on behind the scenes for the last month or so in the form of a series of essays written in reply to each other. The debate was on the problem of evil…

In this episode Ben Watkins interviews philosopher Dr. Paul Moser. Dr. Moser is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. Professor Moser has published over 80 articles and authored many books including The Elusive God and The Evidence for God; Religious Knowledge Reexamined. Professor Moser’s research interests include epistemology, metaphilosophy, and the philosophy of religion….

For better or worse, I get into a lot of religious discussions. In most cases, however, nothing much seems to come of them. I take that back. The average religious discussion is often depressing. Which is why I have had to learn to pick my battles with more care. But whenever the topic of hell…

A few weeks back I was delighted to have the opportunity to interview Dr. Quentin Smith. We sat down not far from the Western Michigan University Campus where he was professor of philosophy from 1993 until he retired in 2015. Dr. Smith received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Antioch College and his PhD in…

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the site. Since the site is new there isn’t much to see just yet. Hang in there. One of my first projects is to create a Tools page. This will feature some important primers on things like method, logic, epistemology, etc. If there is anything you’d like to see…

Again, welcome to Assessing Theism. Since this will be a large undertaking, I will likely blog posts to update progress on various research projects for the site. So strap in and stay tuned for developments!

For this episode, we interview Dr. Felipe Leon on the metaphysical possibility of creation ex nihilo – or creation ‘out of nothing’. This is an indispensable metaphysical doctrine to classical theists. Dr. Felipe Leon is professor of philosophy at El Camino College in Torrance, CA. He received his M.A and Ph.D at University of California…

For this episode, Ben Watkins and Justin Schieber interview Counter Apologist on the moral argument. The moral argument is an argument about moral ontology and includes a premise which states, if God exists, objective moral values and duties do not exist. We discuss various strategies for interacting with this argument.