This is a paper I gave as a keynote address at the Philosophy and Christianity Conference, June 13, 2025 in Warsaw, Poland. It was subsequently published in Studia Philosophiae Christianae, Vol 61, No. 2, 2025.
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Robert Larmer
This is a copy of the paper which appeared in Philosophia Christi, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2024, 91-113. It deals with an objection to viewing the cell as intelligently designed. Living cells are commonly described as containing at a microscopic level machines, factories and digital code. Given that machines, factories, and digital code require…
This is a copy of the paper which appears in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 52, 2002, 129-142. A common objection charge against those who defend the claim that God has acted to produce in nature events that would not otherwise occur is that such a claim commits the 'God of the…
This is a copy of the paper which appears in Philosophia Christi, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2022. In this paper, I argue that the costs of accepting methodological naturalism are prohibitive and that the presumed costs of not accepting it are illusionary. Methodological naturalism cannot be adequately defended by describing something called the scientific method then arguing…
The late Marilyn McCord Adams was an exemplary Christian philosophers. Here is a selection from her essay Redemptive Suffering as a Christian Solution to the Problem of Evil.
The Vision of God and the Problem of Evil
Human beings were made to be happy enjoying a "face-toface" intimacy with God ... and it is that to which the…
C.S. Lewis was greatly influenced by George MacDonald. Lewis wrote that "I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself." As a child, I first knew MacDonald's works through his children's stories such as At the Back of the North Wind and Curdie and the…
Organon F, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2019: 5-24 In this paper, I argue that attempted justifications of methodological naturalism as a prerequisite of scientific inquiry fail. As a practice, it functions not to further scientific investigation, but rather to impose an explanatory straitjacket. Methodological naturalism cannot be adequately defended by describing something called the scientific method then…
Here is a book review of Rope Kojonen's important book The Compatibility of Evolution and Design. The review appeared in Philosophia Christi, Vol 24, No 1. 2022, pp. 163-168.
It does not seem sensible to pursue climate change objectives by undermining food security. People's basic needs must be met before asking them to make sacrifices in the interests of those objectives
Philosophia Christi, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2022. Shared by permission of the journal. In this paper, I criticize non-interventionist accounts of special divine acts and argue that objections to interventionist accounts fail.
It remains to be seen whether a single coherent account can be given of quantum physics and chaos that would allow for a chaotic…
This term, I am teaching a course I entitled Science vs God? Here are six myths routinely employed by those who insist that belief in God undermines science. These myths are discussed in detail in MIchael Keas's book Unbelievable (Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2019) "The greatest myth in the history of science and religion holds that they have…
Sophia, Vol 61, 2022, 727-336. For those wishing to see the paper in its typeset form, here is a read-only link. In this paper, I argue that Locke's subjectivist definition of a miracle is the result of confusing the epistemological question of how a miracle is recognized with the ontological question of what a…