William Blake's "God Blessing the Seventh Day" Source: William Blake/Wikimedia Commons In 2013, I published an article in the journal Think titled “Do Souls Exist.” In 2016, I wrote “Does Free Will ...

Now, it is logically impossible for there to exist nothing but contingent beings. As the great Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) noted back in the 13 th century, whatever depends upon another for its ...

Few scientists have shaped the modern debate about God as forcefully as Stephen Hawking. In his final years, the cosmologist ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. The question of whether a god exists is heating up in the 21st century. According to a Pew survey, the percent of Americans having no religious ...

The night I began reading Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s “36 Arguments for the Existence of God,” I didn’t get far before I fell asleep. But I did have good dreams all night long: well-lit, active and ...

Philosophers Trevor Hedberg and Jordan Huzarevich echo Rauch’s sentiment: “ [Apatheism] is distinct from theism, atheism, and agnosticism. A theist believes that God exists; an atheist believes that ...

The most common critique leveled at New Atheists is that we attack only puerile, fundamentalist forms of religion, and never engage with the “best” arguments of the faithful: those adumbrated by ...

ARLINGTON — Heinz Lycklama is a churchgoer. Francis Barden is not. Barden started questioning religious doctrine in childhood. Lycklama is a devout Christian. They have chatted about their differences ...