by Karlo Broussard | Jul 28, 2020 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
St. Thomas Aquinas is famous for seeing the most mundane things in our human experience as starting points for reasoning to God’s existence. For example, in the first of his famous “Five Ways” he starts with motion (Summa Theologiae I:2:3). In the second, he starts...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 5, 2020 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
There’s one thing that theists and atheists can agree on: God’s existence is not so obvious that everyone necessarily knows it. For many, God’s failure to make his existence obvious, as compared to the existence of a friend or colleague, creates a “knowledge gap” that...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 31, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Recently, we looked at an objection that argues God can’t be immutable and at the same time be the universal cause of temporal effects because that would entail God having to change in his acts—acting to cause one thing at one moment in time, ceasing that act at...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 28, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Atheists often claim that it’s contradictory for believers to assert that God is at the same time both the universal cause of all being and immutable. In other words, God can’t be changeless and at the same time changing, in the sense that he causes things to come...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 10, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Imagine you’re at a public gathering of religious believers—say, a pro-life event or something similar. Across the street you spot a group of atheist protesters sarcastically waving a sign that says: “Religion. . . because thinking is hard.” This has become one of the...