Philosophy, Science, and Christianity (Index Page for Dave Armstrong)

PHILOSOPHY

General

Theological / Epistemological "Either/Or" Reasoning and C.S. Lewis's "True Myth"

Psychology of, and Reasons For Catholic and Christian Belief

A Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness, and the Soul Consistent With Christianity (+ Part Two) (edited by Dave Armstrong)

Socrates "in" the Bible! [Facebook, 30 January 2014] 

Jesus' Use of Socratic Method in His Teaching and Dialogues [Facebook, 10 July 2014] 

Twelve Seminal Alvin Plantinga Books Now Available Online

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman on the Nature and Pursuit of Truth

The Relationship Between Christianity and Philosophy (particularly regarding the interpretation of the Church Fathers) (vs. E. L. Hamilton)

Must Christian Beliefs be Falsifiable in Order to Be Rationally Held? Positivist Myths and Fallacies Debunked by Philosophers and Mathematicians

Dialogue on the Relationship of Reason, Logic, and Supernatural Faith, with a Christian "Pluralist" (i.e., Theological Liberal)

A Reformed Protestant Meets With the Ghost of Plato

The Influence of William of Ockham and Nominalism on Martin Luther and Early Protestant Thought

Catholics and Reason: Reply to Certain Misrepresentations of Catholic Apologetics and Philosophy (including excerpts from Newman's Grammar of Assent)

Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI and Cardinal Newman: Relationship to Traditional, Neo-Scholastic Thomism

The Problem of Evil / Suffering

Serious Christian Treatments of the Problem of Evil and Breezy Atheist Dismissals of Them Sans Rational Argument (vs. John W. Loftus)

Dialogue #3 With an Atheist on the Problem of Evil (vs. John W. Loftus)

"How Can God [in the OT] Order the Killing and Massacre of Innocents?" [Amalekites, etc.]

The World's Shortest Free Will Defense (FWD) Argument Against the Problem of Evil

Christian Replies to the Argument From Evil (Free Will Defense): Is God Malevolent, Weak, or Non-Existent Because of the Existence of Evil and Suffering?

Alvin Plantinga's Decisive Refutation of the Atheist Use of the Problem of Evil as a Disproof of God's Existence, Goodness, or Omnipotence

Critique of Agnostic Ed Babinski's Post: "The Problem of Evil, Alvin Plantinga and Victor Reppert" (the "Emotional" Argument From Evil) (vs. Ed Babinski)

Some Christian Replies to the Problem of Evil as Set Forth by Atheists (vs. "drunken tune" and John W. Loftus)

Dialogue #2 With an Atheist on the Problem of Evil (vs. "drunken tune")

Is the "Strong" Logical Argument From Evil Largely Discredited If Not Dead, Or Alive and Well? (Atheist Confusion)

Dialogue With an Atheist on the "Problem of Good" and the Nature of Meaningfulness in Atheism (+ Part Two) (The Flip Side of the Problem of Evil Argument Against Christianity) (vs. Mike Hardie)

The Oslo Massacre and the Irrationally Subjective Application of "Symbolic" Evil Acts in Order to Draw Unwarranted and Unjust Conclusions

Reasons for Suffering and Encouragement and Hope in the Midst of It: A Biblical Compendium

Education

Response to Kevin Johnson's Criticisms of Home-Schooling

Editorial Comment on Home-Schooling and the Dilapidated State of Public Education

"Chronological Snobbery": History of Ideas, Socratic Philosophy, Christian Worldview, Scientists and God (Dave Armstrong and John Kress)

On Teaching From a Classical Christian Perspective (Thomas Wilkes)

THEISTIC ARGUMENTS

The Cosmological Argument (Big Bang, Etc.)

The Atheist's Boundless Faith in Deo-Atomism ("The Atom-as-God")

Current Models in Cosmological Physics Concerning the Origin of the Universe (Dark Energy and Matter, Etc.), and Their Interaction With Metaphysics

Dialogue With an Atheist Philosophy Professor on the Kalam Cosmological Argument for God's Existence and its Possible Alternatives (+ Part Two) (vs. Dr.Ted Drange)

Dialogue With an Atheist on Logical Positivism and the Existence and Cause (or No Cause) of the Universe (vs. Steve Conifer)

How "Creation" Implies God (Dr. Dennis Bonnette)

The Teleological Argument (Design)

My Own "Expelled" Experience (Intelligent Design and Profoundly Closed Minds)

Dialogue With Atheists on the Evolution of the Eye, Irreducible Complexity, and Intelligent Design (vs. Steve Conifer)

 

Dialogue on Materialist Evolutionary Theory and Intelligent Design (including St. Augustine's and St. Thomas Aquinas' Views on Creation and Evolution) (vs. five agnostics)

Intelligent Design: Scientists' Observations

Famed Atheist Champion Antony Flew Switches Over to Belief in a Deist God: Studies in Flew's Justification of His Change of Mind and the Predictable Reaction of Atheists

The Ontological Argument

St. Anselm's Ontological Argument Revisited (+ Part Two; group discussion)

The Ontological Argument for God's Existence: "A concept greater than which first meets the eye"

The Ontological Argument for God's Existence: A Discussion With Philosophy Grad Student Patrick

SCIENCE

Galileo

Galileo: The Myths and the Facts

Dialogue on the Galileo Fiasco and Plea for Better Understanding of the Church's Error, Given the State of Scientific and Astronomical Knowledge in 1633 (vs. Eric G.)

"No One's Perfect": Scientific Errors of Galileo and 16th-17th Century Cosmologies Rescued From Inexplicable Obscurity

Why the Galileo Case Doesn't Disprove Catholic Infallibility, Rightly-Understood / Sola Scriptura Redux (vs. Ken Temple and Eric G.)

Dialogue With an Agnostic on the Galileo Fiasco and Whether or Not it Disproves Catholic Infallibility or Suggests Various Other Shortcomings (vs. Jon)

Richard Dawkins and Double Standards in the "Religion vs. Science" Mentality / Galileo Redux

Early Modern Science and Its Relationship to Religion

115 Scientific Fields of Study Founded or Extraordinarily Advanced by Christian or Theistic Scientists / 34 Prominent Catholic Priest-Scientists

 

Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Philip Melanchthon Wax Astronomical, Geocentric, and Aristotelian, Putting the Pernicious "Fool" Copernicus in His Place

John Calvin Assumes a Non-Spherical Earth and Severely Mocks Plato for Believing that the Earth is a Globe

"No One's Perfect": Scientific Errors of Galileo and 16th-17th Century Cosmologies Rescued From Inexplicable Obscurity

"Science vs. Religion" Chronicles: 16th-17th Century Astronomers' Simultaneous Acceptance of Astrology (+ Part Two)

Antoine Lavoisier: the Great Catholic Scientist and "Father of Chemistry" Was Executed by "Enlightened / Goddess of Reason" French Revolutionaries

Exchanges With Robert Sungenis on Geocentrism and Perceived Personal Attacks

Early Protestant Hostility Towards Science

Christianity's Central Role in the Conception and Development of Modern Science

Christian Influence on Science: Master List of Scores of Bibliographical and Internet Resources

Fertile Soil and Roots of Modern Science: 33 Prominent Christians Prior to 1000 A. D. With Empiricist, Proto-Scientific Views

Philosophy of Science / Scientific Method

Reflections on the Pseudo-Science of Social Darwinism, the Ethics Derived Therefrom, and Its Use as a Justifying Rationale for the Nazi Holocaust

Philosophy of Science and the Impossibility of Epistemological "Neutrality" (Especially Within Materialist or Logical Positivist Presuppositional Frameworks)

 

Dialogue With an Atheist on the Relationship of Christianity and Metaphysics to the Scientific Method (vs. Sue Strandberg)

Article on the 29% Growth of the Polar Ice Cap in 2013 [which Al Gore predicted in 2008 would be nonexistent in 2013] and Discussion [Facebook, 14 Dec. 2013]

Albert Einstein's "Cosmic Religion"

Old Habits Die Hard: The Garden Variety Atheist Fairy Tale of "Christianity vs. Science and Reason" Redux (vs. "drunkentune")

The Philosophical Impossibility of Darwinian Naturalistic Evolution (Dr. Dennis Bonnette)

Bible, Christianity, and Science Issues

Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato si: A Beautiful and Profoundly Wise Statement of Christian Environmentalism and Theology of Creation [18 June 2015]

Critique of Chris Ferrara's Radical Reactionary Hit-Piece in Opposition to Pope Francis' Christian Environmentalism [20 June 2015]

Dialogue on Biblical Cosmology, Round One (vs. Matthew Green)

Fr. Robert Barron Denies That Adam Was a "Literal Figure"

Fr. Robert Barron's Denial that the Adam and Eve of Genesis Were Historical Figures and the Primal Human Pair [11-28-13]



Typical "Science vs. Catholicism" Criticisms (and Myths) from an Agnostic Scientist Refuted

Surveys of Current Religious Beliefs of Scientists

In (Partial) Defense of William Jennings Bryan (Famous "Scopes Trial" of 1925)

Is God in Time? (vs. John W. Loftus)

Extraterrestrial Life and the Catholic Church: Collection of Links

Profound Mysteries of the Faith (Like God's Timelessness) and Their Relationship To Reason

Flood Geology, the (Global?) Flood, and Uniformitarianism (+ Part II) (vs. Kevin Rice)

Question on the Nature and Extent of Noah's Flood (as Understood in Catholicism) and My Reply [Facebook, 7 April 2014]

The Catholic Perspective on Creation and Evolution / Charles Darwin's Religious Beliefs: Some Thoughts

Objections to Some Atheist / Agnostic "Proof Texts" of an Alleged Flat-Earth Biblical Cosmology (vs. Ed Babinski)

Reply to Atheist Scientist Jerry Coyne's Position That Science and Religion Are Utterly Incompatible: Rationally Disallowing Even Theistic Evolutionism

Young Earth Creationism Among Leading Online Anti-Catholic Protestants

Thoughts on the Theology of God: Omniscience, Immutability, Timelessness, and Pure Holiness

Modern Biology and Original Sin (+ Part 2) (Edward Feser)

Time to Abandon the Genesis Story? (Dr. Dennis Bonnette, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, 10 July 2014) 

Adam and Eve: Defense of Their Literal Existence as the Primal Human Couple, by Catholic Philosopher, Dr. Dennis Bonnette

Dr. Dennis Bonnette Debunks the Argument Against Adam and Eve from Molecular Biologists

Climate Change / Global Warming Issue

Discussion on Global Warming [Facebook, 9 April 2015]

Further Discussion on Global Warming and Particularly the Melting of Polar Ice Caps and Al Gore's False Predictions [Facebook, 13 July 2015]

The Kooky Fundamentalist Revival of Geocentrism

Geocentrism Debunked  

(comprehensive website run by David Palm)

My 5-Star Amazon Review of Karl Keating's The New Geocentrists (11 February 2015) (+ Facebook discussion)

Formal Science Education of Rick DeLano, Producer of the Geocentrist Film, The Principle ("Dialogue") [1-11-14]

Actress Kate Mulgrew Says she Was Duped Regarding her Narration of the Geocentrist Film, The Principle [Karl Keating article and Facebook discussion and media links, 8 April 2014]

My Refusal to Wrangle With Robert Sungenis Over Geocentrism and a Supposedly 10,000-Year-Old, Non-Rotating Earth

Geocentrism: Not at All an Infallible Dogma of the Catholic Church (David Palm and "Jordanes")

Critiques of Geocentrism (Links Page)

Response (in Words and Actions) to the Vehement Criticisms of Geocentrists "johnmartin" and "juscot"

Pope Leo XIII On Literal Interpretation and the Unanimous Consent of the Fathers [and Geocentrism] (by David Palm)

Neo-Geo Double Standards and Exaggerations on Magisterial Documents (by David Palm)

Cardinal Newman on Galileo and the Alleged Dogmatic Status of Geocentrism

Neo-Geo Exaggerations: The Catechism of Trent  (David Palm)

Neo-geocentrism: Excessive Interest in Usury Comes to Naught  (David Palm)

Sungenis and "johnmartin" Studiously Miss the Point (David Palm)



Neo-geos Come Unravelled (Robert Sungenis and John Martin) (David Palm)

Robert Sungenis' Responses to Recent Critiques on This Blog Regarding God's Characteristics and Geocentrism (With My Replies)

Miracles

Jeremy Hand: Miraculous Recovery from "Brain Death" After Anointing With Holy Oil?

Silly Atheist and Agnostic Arguments Against the Resurrection (and Miracles)

Biblical and Historical Evidences for Raising the Dead

James White Readily Grants Possible Legitimacy to the Flimsiest "Evidence" That Padre Pio Faked His Stigmata

[For related reading, see: Atheism, Agnosticism, and Secularism Page]

Last updated on 13 July 2015.

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