Wayne Rossiter Wrote a Post About my Take on Suffering: Here’s my Response
Truth be told, I cannot remember a time when someone ever wrote a critique to one of my blog posts on their blog. Well, that has now happened with Wayne Rossite...
Category: Book Review
A Brief Series on Ken Ham’s Book, “How Could a Loving God?” (Part 4: How I’ve Come to Answer the Question of Suffering”
We now come to my final post on the topic of Ken Ham’s book, How Could a Loving God?, in which he attempts to address the topic of suffering and death. In my fi...
A Brief Series on Ken Ham’s Book, “How Could a Loving God?” (Part 3: Accepting Suffering, but no, Ken, We’re Not Going Back to Eden)
Ken Ham’s book, How Could a Loving God? addresses the topic of theodicy: how can one reconcile the idea of a loving God when there is so much suffering and deat...
A Brief Series on Ken Ham’s Book, “How Could a Loving God?” (Part 2: Secular Humanism, and a Wrong Reading of Genesis 1-3–Whose Fault is It?)
In his book, How Could a Loving God? Ken Ham attempts to give what he feels are biblical answers to the problem of suffering and death in the world. In my last ...
Suffering, Death, and Ham: A Brief Series on Ken Ham’s Book, “How Could a Loving God?” (Part 1): An Overview
This week I am going to look at Ken Ham’s book, How Could a Loving God?: Powerful Answers on Suffering. It is a relatively short book (192 pages) that Ham wrote...
“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 7): Thus Concludes the Matter
We now come to the end of my critique of Dan Barker’s book, Mere Morality. In all honesty, it hasn’t been a fun series to write—it wasn’t because Barker’s argum...
“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 6): Rebellion, Curses, and Evil (Why Dan Barker Misunderstands Them All)
We are moving on to yet another post about Dan Barker’s book, Mere Morality. As I said in the previous post, the second half of Barker’s book really just amount...
“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 5): God, Morality, Ethnic Cleansing?
We now come to the point of Dan Barker’s book, Mere Morality, where it essentially devolves into an exercise in over the top condemnations of the Bible and Chri...
“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 4): Reason, Law, and Rebellion…and why the New Atheists really are just secular ultra-fundamentalist cult
After his elaboration on his belief that morality and culture are a result of evolutionary forces, Dan Barker then addresses the issues of Reason, Law, and Rebe...
“Mere Morality” by Dan Barker (Part 3): Morality Genes, Cultural Memes, and More Assertions From the “Evolution of the Gaps”
In my previous post on Dan Barker’s book Mere Morality, I responded to Barker’s attempt to draw a distinction between “religious values” and “human values,” as ...