Author: Michael Martin
Michael Martin was professor emeritus of philosophy at Boston University. He authored Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (1990), The Case against Christianity (1991), and Atheism, Morality, and Meaning (2002). He was also editor (with Ricki Monnier) of The Impossibility of God (2003) and The Improbability of God (2006) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (2007). His article “Three New Arguments for Nonbelief” appeared in FI, Fall 2001.
Problems with Heaven
Traditional ideas about Heaven are conceptually incoherent, and that’s just the beginning of their problems.
Frenchy’s Con
Picking apart ‘Pascal’s wager’ Trying the God hypothesis in the court of reason Subway Slim and Fast Eddie were trying to work the old horse race scam outta ’Frisco back in ’46 when they first met him. Things weren’t going good. The suckers weren’t biting and Slim was getting mighty discouraged. “Gee, Eddie, with the …
Trying to Save God: One More Valiant Attempt
Is There a God? by Richard Swinburne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0-19-8235445-5) 144 pp., $19.95 cloth. Is There a God? is a shorter and simpler version of Richard Swinburne’s The Existence of God (Oxford University Press, 1979). As such, it provides a useful introduction to theistic thought for readers with no background …
God for a Day!
Today was the day! Billy Eaton was so excited! He had pre-pared all week. He had made long lists of things that he would do. He had asked questions of everyone on the ward to help him decide what to put on the lists without letting on what they were for. Yesterday he had asked …