Month: July 2025
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On W. L. Craig on whether God can learn
A friend of mine has pressed me to respond to William Lane Craig’s defense of Molinism, so here is a small contribution. Recently, I found an occasion to do so. Craig’s X.com team posted this video, a snippet of a longer interview; click and watch it, it’s only 94 seconds. Craig is being provocative, and…
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The Denominational Distinctives II: The High Church Distinctives
This essay is part of a series: The Denominational Distinctives Part ICatholic, Orthodox, & Protestant Part IIThe High Church Distinctives Part IIIFurther High Church Distinctives This is the second set of questions and answers about the distinctive doctrines of the Christian denominations. My aim in this series is to help me to decide on my…
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Zobot: A Third Kind of Self-Sustaining Being
Philosophy and theology posit two kinds of self-sustaining beings: God, who is eternally self-sustaining, depending on nothing outside himself for his being; and living beings or organisms, consisting of many interoperative systems that function to sustain the whole, and which give rise to rough copies of themselves. Advances in robotics and AI now make feasible…
