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578Can a Thomist Be a Darwinist?In Jay W. Richards (ed.), God and Evolution, . pp. 187-202. 2010.A discussion of several tensions between Thomistic philosophy and modern Darwinian theory as well as several recent Thomistic criticisms of intelligent design.
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352Kelly James Clark and Raymond J. VanArragon: Evidence and Religious Belief (review)American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2): 372-375. 2012.
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587David O’Connor. God, Evil, and Design: An Introduction to the Philosophical Issues. Blackwell, 2008 (review)European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 6 (1): 209-215. 2014.
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362Michael Ruse: Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science (review)Religious Studies Review 38 (1): 10. 2012.A brief review of Michael Ruse's 2010 book Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science (Cambridge University Press).
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476New Atheist Approaches to ReligionIn Graham Robert Oppy (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, Routledge. pp. 51-62. 2015.In this article, we examine in detail the New Atheists' most serious argument for the conclusion that God does not exist, namely, Richard Dawkins's Ultimate 747 Gambit. Dawkins relies upon a strong explanatory principle involving simplicity. We systematically inspect the various kinds of simplicity that Dawkins may invoke. Finding his crucial premises false on any common conception of simplicity, we conclude that Dawkins has not given good reason to think God does not exist.
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425Thomas Nagel: Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False (review)Review of Metaphysics 66 (3): 588-590. 2013.A review of Thomas Nagel's book Mind and Cosmos.
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158Objectivity and Subjectivity in Epistemology: A Defense of the Phenomenal Conception of EvidenceDissertation, Baylor University. 2014.We all have an intuitive grasp of the concept of evidence. Evidence makes beliefs reasonable, justifies jury verdicts, and helps resolve our disagreements. Yet getting clear about what evidence is is surprisingly difficult. Among other possibilities, evidence might consist in physical objects like a candlestick found at the crime scene, propositions like ‘a candlestick was found at the crime scene,’ or experiences like the experience of witnessing a candlestick at the crime scene. This dissertat…Read more
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