Abstract: The anthropic fine-tuning of the cosmos refers to the claim that the laws of nature, the constants of physics, and the initial conditions of the universe must be set to an enormous degree of precision for life to exist. Three major responses have been offered to this fine-tuning: the multiverse explanation; theism; and the claim that it is just a brute fact that requires no further ex...

Abstract Nagasawa has argued that the suffering associated with evolution presents a greater challenge to atheism than theism because evil is incompatible ‘existential optimism’ about world – seeing as an overall good place, and being thankful we exist. I argue even if was existential optimism in this way, no threat atheism. Moreover, it unclear how could on its own undermine optimism. Links be...

Edward Feser defends the ‘Neo-Platonic proof’ for existence of God classical theism. After articulating argument and a number preliminaries, I first argue that premise three Feser’s – causal principle every composite object requires sustaining efficient cause to combine its parts is both unjustified dialectically ill-situated. then Neo-Platonic proof fails deliver mindedness absolutely simple b...

Monotheistic religions such as Judaism and Christianity affirm that God loves all humans and created them in His image. However, we have learned from Darwin that we were not created separately from other life on earth. Some Christians opposed Darwinian evolution because it undercut certain design arguments for the existence of God. Today there is the growing idea that the fine-tuned constants o...

Seemingly, in an attempt to appease both the micro-physicists and the classical theists, Nancey Murphy and Thomas Tracy have each developed accounts of God which allow for Him to act, in an otherwise causally closed natural world, through various micro-processes at the subatomic level. I argue that not only do each of these views skew the accounts of both micro-physics and theism just enough to...