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		<title>Is God Alive?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Oden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is God dead? Or is God neither/something else entirely? The Abrahamic religious tradition talks about God as a &#8220;Living God.&#8221; For sake of this argument, we need not assume that God does exist or does not exist. So, let&#8217;s assume that God exists. By strong induction, we can say that all living beings start to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sophisticated Philosophical Arguments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Oden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently watched a video on YouTube featuring William Lane Craig. His assertion was that the &#8220;new atheists&#8221; were rather not intellectually bright, and that they present no sophisticated philosophical arguments. The new atheists, he claims, are doing little more than rehashing arguments from the intellectual giants (my words) who were their predecessors, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is the Nature of Truth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or: Is Truth Absolute or Relative? Truth has qualities of both absoluteness and relativity. Truth is simply &#8220;what is.&#8221; And falsity is simply &#8220;what is not.&#8221; Is &#8220;what is&#8221; absolute? Is &#8220;what is&#8221; relative? To both questions, we must answer: Yes. What is, depends. Is depends on time, place, manner, condition, and countless factors that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What If Atheism Kills Religion?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Oden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, A Nostalgic Look Back on the Usefulness of Religion An atheist should not think of spirituality as useless any more than a capitalist should think of agriculture as useless. There are evolutionary reasons why religion developed. If religion and spirituality were biologically disadvantageous, shouldn&#8217;t they have been selected out? If there were no or [...]]]></description>
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