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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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…
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…