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(Journal Article, Relegere: Studies in Religion and Reception, 2012)Theistic evolutionists often suggest that one can reconcile evolutionary theory with biblical teaching. But in fact Christians have accepted Darwinian theory only after reinterpreting the opening chapters of Genesis. Is ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)The belief in supernatural agents is a universal feature of human social cognition. Recent cognitive theories of religion might explain the origins of supernatural concepts, but they do not adequately explain religious ... -
(Thesis, Master of Arts, 2012)What is the relationship between logic and thought? One view is that logic merely describes how people think. But this view – called 'psychologism' – cannot be quite right. Logic cannot describe how people reason, because ... -
(Journal Article, Biology and Philosophy, 2011)I outline the debate in metaphysics between those who believe time is tensed and those who believe it is tenseless. I describe the terms in which this debate has been carried out, and the significance to it of ordinary ... -
(Journal Article, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2011)History and the modern sciences are characterized by what is sometimes called a “methodological naturalism” that disregards talk of divine agency. Some religious thinkers argue that this reflects a dogmatic materialism: ... -
(Chapter in Book, Rethinking Kant, vol. 2, 2010)Kant's writings on logic illustrate the comparison argument about truth, which goes as follows. A truth-bearer p is true if and only if it corresponds, or it agrees, with a portion of reality: the object(s), state(s) of ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008)It is generally supposed that a supportive family can have an influence on outcomes for an adult with severe brain injury, but there is very little known about what effective families actually do. In this research the ...
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(Journal Article, Religion Compass, 2007)Gregory W. Dawes, Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? Religion Compass 1/6 (2007) pp. 711–724 -
(Journal Article, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2007)While a great deal of abuse has been directed at intelligent design theory (ID), its starting point is a fact about biological organisms that cries out for explanation, namely “specified complexity” (SC). Advocates of ID ... -
Religion in the public square : Liberal political philosophy and the place of religious convictions (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006)
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(Journal Article, Pacifica, 2006)The infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke pose in an acute form the question of the historical value of the Gospels. Raymond Brown suggests that redaction criticism can bypass this question by spelling out the theological ... -
(Journal Article, Journal of Religion and Society, 2003)In a recent defence of what he calls "study by religion," Robert Ensign suggests that alleged divine revelations represent public forms of knowledge, which should not be excluded from the academy. But at least according ... -
(Journal Article, Journal of Philosophical Research, 2003)If, as the new B-theory of time maintains, tensed sentences have tenseless truth conditions, it follows that it is possible for two sentence-tokens to have the same truth conditions, but different meanings. This conclusion ... -
(Journal Article, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2003)It has recently been argued that the new B-theory of time argues invalidly from the claim that tensed sentences have tenseless truth-conditions to the conclusion that temporal reality is tenseless. But while early B-theorists ... -
(Journal Article, Pacifica, 2002)John Shelby Spong has recently advocated belief in a ‘God beyond theism’. While rejecting traditional theism, he also distinguishes his position from atheism. He suggests that there is a divine reality, which may be described ... -
(Journal Article, Ratio, 2002)If, as the new tenseless theory of time maintains, there are no tensed facts, then why do our emotional lives seem to suggest that there are? This question originates with Prior’s ‘Thank Goodness That’s Over’ problem, and ... -
(Journal Article, Synthese, 2002)There are two extant versions of the new tenseless theory of time: the date versionand the token-reflexive version. I ask whether they are equivalent, and if not, whichof them is to be preferred. I argue that they are not ... -
(Journal Article, Journal of Religion and Society, 2002)In his 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine, Galileo argues for a “principle of limitation”: the authority of Scripture should not be invoked in scientific matters. In doing so, he claims to be following ... -
(Journal Article, Grazer Philosophische Studien, 2001)The debate about the reality of tense descends from an argument of McTaggart's,whichwas designed to prove the unreality of time.The argument has two constituent theses: firstly that time is intrinsically tensed, and secondly, ...
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