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 ...

Perhaps the most important question in the world is whether or not God exists. But most people, raised and trained well in the intellectual (or anti-intellectual) environment of our culture, when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Between the omnipotence of God, who holds all creation in being, and the nothingness of man, there is an impassible barrier which no creature may breach. Even the best and the brightest are forced to ...

Oxford University Press gets the prize for the year's snappiest book title: "God?" As the subtitle explains, this is "A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist" about whether God exists, one of ...

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 ...