The Philosopher’s Brew Podcast

An understanding of what it means to be human is essential to understanding why God permits suffering in this world.

Arguments from evil against the existence of God hang on the premise that God cannot permit gratuitous evil. But if we grant that premise, then when a society becomes a gratuitous evil, God must terminate it. But then there are the objections ...

Every event produces an exponentially increasing number of consequences to the end of history, affecting an exponentially increasing number of causal chains, making calculations of the net moral value of any event impossible.

Just as it is absurd to complain about a high crime rate if, in fact, there are no laws to break, so it is nonsense to complain about evil and injustice unless there is some ultimate standard of truth and beauty that is being violated.

Maybe the reason the universe is incredibly fine-tuned to support life, is that it was actually designed to do so--which has implications for a mind behind the universe.

Science cannot answer this question but cold, hard logic can.

Why cold, hard logic requires that the cause of nature, cannot be natural.

In listening to many testimonials from young Christian leaders who abandoned their belief in God, they appeared to be utterly unaware of three factors that may have had a very significant influence in their loss of faith.

In listening to numerous testimonials from ex-Christians, I observed there were six major categories of reasons they gave. In this episode, we work through those reasons.