Category Archives: Philosophy

Postscript to the Cosmological Argument

As children growing up, each of us at some point becomes aware of the laws of cause and effect.  Every effect has a cause, and each cause must be sufficient to produce the effect in question.  Then when in childhood … Continue reading

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A Little Deeper Into the Cosmos

More on the Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God Why is there something rather than nothing? If anything exists, then an uncaused being exists.  How do we know this? Something does exist: the universe; and the universe either had … Continue reading

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The Heavens Declare the Glory

Several people who follow this blog have been complaining about the recent dearth of posts.  Mea culpa!  I repent! Here is a fascinating special case of the fine-tuning of the universe. There are 90 naturally-occurring elements in the periodic table … Continue reading

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The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God is Virtually Conclusive

I cannot leave this argument alone.  Every time I sit down to write about the teleological argument for the existence of God (the argument from design), my thoughts turn to the cosmological argument instead.  Here is my latest effort to … Continue reading

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Joshualetter is Now Podcasting!

Check out Joshualetter’s Inaugural Podcast on: The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God, Right here!

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The Moral Argument for God Gets Some Air

[On August 21, 2021, our local newspaper, The Eugene Register-Guard, published a “Guest View” by atheist Charles H. Jones, to which I felt compelled to offer a riposte, which was published as a Guest View September 4, 2021.  Here are … Continue reading

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Letter to Mary

For Christmas 2019 my daughter-in-law gave me Andrew Roberts’ biography of Winston Churchill. This is the letter I wrote to thank her. March 7, 2020 Dear Mary, I just finished Andrew Roberts’ Churchill and I want to say again, thanks! … Continue reading

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Toward an Epistemology of Love

N. T. Wright, Loving to Know: The 2019 Erasmus Lecture (First Things Magazine, February 2020, pp. 25-34.)   To transcend the divided field of knowledge – the antitheses between fact and value, objective and subjective, reason and faith, science and … Continue reading

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A Challenge to Intellectual Engagement

This is why I love William Lane Craig. To those who think there is no real truth, what history teaches is: that all the world was mad in the past; men always thought they were right, and that led to … Continue reading

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Christopher Hitchens on God’s Wastefulness

In his April 2009 debate with William Lane Craig (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tYm41hb48o), Christopher Hitchens presented a long string of arguments which I regard as irrelevant to the question which those gentlemen were actually debating, which is whether or not God exists.  In … Continue reading

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