Articles by: Paul Copan
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If God Made the Universe, Who Made God?
In his 1927 essay, “Why I Am Not a Christian,” atheist Bertrand Russell reflected on our origins. If…
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Is Naturalism a Simpler Explanation Than Theism?
Philosopher David Papineau declares “nearly everyone nowadays wants to be a ‘naturalist.’ ”1 Western intellectuals call naturalism the…
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It is Wrong to Believe Without Evidence
INTRODUCTION The late Christopher Hitchens — one of the infamous “new atheists” — made this claim: “That which…
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“My Genes Made me Do It” Is Ethics Based on Biological Evolution?
It is quite common to read in the philosophical and scientific literature that ethics is nothing more than…
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“It’s All Relative” and Other Such Absolute Statements
You have probably heard all kinds of relativistic statements: “That’s just true for you but not for me,”…