The following articles were published on the Strange Notions website. © 2019 Dennis Bonnette
When skeptics, agnostics, and atheists oppose theists, Christians, and, specifically, Catholics, they frequently do so from the perspective of philosophical naturalism. This article will challenge the rational credibility of naturalism.…
Until the advent of Darwinian evolution, most Christians believed that the entire human race actually descended from our literally-real first parents, Adam and Eve. Many still do. In 1950, Pope…
The problem of evil in relation to God’s goodness is too vast a topic to treat fully in this short article. Therefore, I shall offer just a few relevant observations…
THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM God is absolutely simple, meaning that he is not composed of parts, principles, or things.i He is a spiritual being, since what is physical is…
Rather than present a systematic defense of all the divine attributes involved in this article, my purpose here is to explore some philosophical doctrines about God whose interrelationship appears perplexing,…
HOW GOD’S EXISTENCE CAN BE KNOWN Vatican Council I solemnly defines that the existence of God can be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason through those…
Acceptance of God’s existence is conditioned for many on whether or not a convincing proof thereof can be presented to them. But for others, it is not a problem of…
AN ETERNAL UNIVERSE VS. THE “BIG BANG” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) famously posed the ultimate question: “Why is there something rather than nothing?”i To this, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll replies:…
“Why new existence?” What kind of a question is that? Does it really mean anything? We know that motion or change is real and that everything in motion is moved…
“Motion is the act of a being in potency insofar as it is in potency.” Aristotle, Physics Book III, 201a10-11. In his famous First Way of proving God’s existence, St.…
