I heard a strangely interesting monologue on NPR on Sunday, November 18, 2018. I tried, but I couldn’t find a reference to it online anywhere. Either google failed me or I imagined the whole thing. The pre-announcement was that the writer was going to explain why he didn’t believe in free will. I thought […]
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Tripping Truth
What might be the connection among love, evil, free will, and psychedelic drugs? Argument From Evil You may be familiar with the “argument from evil;” the idea that there cannot be a God because God as He is conceived would be all-powerful and all-good, and therefore would not allow evil. But there is evil, therefore […]
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“The Problem of Evil” Possibly the greatest impediment to theistic belief is the presence of evil in the world. For atheists, it is “the problem of evil,” by which they mean that the existence of evil refutes the existence of God. When they say “evil,” they don’t just mean immoral bad things, but all bad […]
Read more...Review: Ex Machina
Sci-fi movies with whirring gadgets and robots and what-not might be fascinating for techno-philes. Ex Machina is not such a movie, however. Gadgetry is not the point. You’re meant to focus on every word of dialogue, by man and machine. Sure, there is tension building, and there are plot twists. But this movie is about […]
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