Paradigm Shift: A Challenge to Naturalism

By Dr. Gary Habermas “Idealism was the dominant philosophy in the Western world in the early 20th century, a holdover from its prominence in the previous century. Stressing the metaphysical reality of mind or spirit and the epistemological centrality of ideas, idealism stood in stark contrast to naturalism, which took its position as the dominant […]

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Evidence for the Historical Jesus: Is the Jesus of History the Christ of Faith?

By Dr. Gary Habermas “Abstract: The search for the historical Jesus is a hot topic in both popular and academic circles today and has drawn a lot of attention from national magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. Further, the media has given an undue amount of attention to the outlandish […]

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Mailbag: The Devil Made Us Smarter?

By Dr. David Baggett A reader of the site [MoralApologetics.com] asked for help responding to this: “The devil gave humans critical thinking which God didn’t want us to have. God wanted us to not eat from the tree of knowledge so we could be thought-slaves for eternity, but the devil did us a favor and […]

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Keeping the Moral Demand and the Christian Hope for the Good Life

By: Jonathan Pruitt If we think that moral realism is true, and we live in a morally rich world then some unsettling issues arise. If, for example, humans really are intrinsically valuable, then something like Kant’s categorical imperative must be required of us. That is, if humans really are rational agents, then they ought to […]

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Naturalism, Christianity, and the Best Explanation of Moral Goodness

By Jonathan Pruitt In this essay I suggest that Christian theism better explains the existence of moral goodness than does naturalism. But what is goodness? One way to answer this question is by ostension.  We can point to things that are good as examples. If we asked a child, “What is water?” she would not […]

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