Articles on Uncommon Descent, indexed by date (2010-2016) (These articles were written several years ago, while I was an Intelligent Design advocate.)

The Skeptical Zone (TSZ) articles by Vincent Torley, indexed by date

2023

An A-Z of Unanswered Objections to Christianity: Y. Has Christianity made the world a better place?

Dr. Jeffrey Tripp on the failure of undesigned coincidences

The Expanded Problem of Animal Suffering

The Shroud of Turin: Why I think the image is natural and probably medieval

What do you think of Dr. Lydia McGrew’s Elevator Pitch for the Resurrection?

How not to argue for the Resurrection PLUS my latest interview with Ed Tahmizian

The best debate I’ve seen on the Resurrection of Jesus

Calvinist apologist deconverts from Christianity (but not theism)

Dr. Gavin Ortlund’s defense of C.S. Lewis's "Liar, Lunatic or Lord" trichotomy, and Why I think it won’t work on skeptics

2021

Michael Alter's interview with Edouard Tahmizian of Internet Infidels, on the Resurrection of Jesus

My interview with Edouard Tahmizian of Internet Infidels

"Fearfully and Wonderfully Made": Pro-life feminist Dr. Kristin Collier on pre-natal development

Window dressing, or: Is the God of Thomistic classical theism as dumb as a rock?

An A-Z of Unanswered Objections to Christianity: W. The Sacraments

God as Author and the Problem of Evil: A Response to Feser

Gunther Laird critiques natural law in The Unnecessary Science

2020

An A-Z of Unanswered Objections to Christianity: Q. The Virginal Conception of Jesus

An A-Z of Unanswered Objections to Christianity: F. Superhuman intelligences: angels, demons and aliens

An A-Z of Unanswered Objections to Christianity: H. Human Origins

An A-Z of Unanswered Objections to Christianity (A new series on the crisis in apologetics)

Freedom, Flossing and Fake history: A Response to Robert Sapolsky (and a coronavirus update from Japan)

2019

Newman vs. Locke on Assent

What do we know about Jesus' burial?

The Elephant in front of the Cross

Why there probably wasn't a guard at Jesus' tomb

Is the Boltzmann Brain Paradox a Genuine One?

How should TSZ handle racism and hate speech?

2018

Aphrodite's head: Eight questions for Douglas Axe

Fact vs. Opinion: A Distinction Without a Difference?

Resurrection Redux II

Resurrection Redux I

Michael Alter's bombshell demolishes Christian apologists' case for the Resurrection

Climate change killed the aliens and will kill us too: a case study in GIGO

If God expects us to pray for others, does that make Him a monster?

Feser's fourth proof and the mystery of existence

Flawed logic and bad mereology: why Feser's first two proofs fail

Has Feser proved that God is almighty, all-knowing, good, capable of free choice and loving?

Feser's predestinationism and his bizarre claim that God’s knowledge is non-propositional

18 really dumb (and not-so-dumb) objections to arguments for the existence of God

Why I disagree with Cardinal Dolan's remark that "no country is a 'hole.'"

Dr. Lydia McGrew on Six Bad Habits of New Testament Scholars (and how to avoid them)

2017

Craniopagus twins revisited: A response to Professor Egnor

At last, an intelligent solution to the problem of global warming

Two-million-year-old Adam and Eve still possible: Dr. Ann Gauger’s model remains viable

The craniopagus twins from British Columbia: A test case for Thomistic dualism

Science, not theology, should decide the merits of Intelligent Design

ENV's shockingly bad argument that humans are products of intelligent design

Adam and Eve still a possibility?

PVS patient regains consciousness after 15 years, thanks to nerve stimulation

Would you call it murder?

Save them, smash them, relocate them or critique them?

Granville Sewell's argument for Intelligent Design

How ENV muddies the waters on the evidence for human evolution

Can prairie dogs talk?

My thoughts on JohnnyB's new view of Irreducible Complexity

Evidence for the Resurrection: Why reasonable people might differ, and why believers aren't crazy

Is it easy to get a new protein? A reply to Ann Gauger

Why we probably don't live in a computer simulation

Do we have a duty not to procreate?

Why David Madison's Slam Dunk Isn't One

Worse than Watergate? Bias in the mainstream media

The Christian God and the Problem of Evil

Gay atheist media star interviews bishop: what do you think?

Two kinds of complexity: why a sea anemone is not a Precambrian fossil rabbit

Trilobites: the dangers of too little reading

Cool it

Early embryonic mutations: a problem for evolution?

Suffer the children

Credulous PLOS One publishes evidence for body trauma on the Turin Shroud image

Tamagotchi, J. K. Rowling and God: A Short Essay on the Problem of Evil

Recycling bad arguments: ENV on the origin of life

J. Warner Wallace's eight attributes of design

Dale Tuggy's Trinitarian challenge – and a survey

Two hundred years of global warming and the failure of the Precautionary Principle

Hoist on its own petard: ENV's two "fake science" stories turn out to be genuine

Coyne's latest defense of determinism: why it fails

2016

The credibility of the Christmas story

Is evolution the same everywhere in the cosmos?

Fatima: miracle, meteorological effect, UFO, optical illusion or mass hallucination?

"Astroturf and manipulation of media messages" by Sharyl Attkisson: your thoughts?

The question I'd really like to ask Ray Comfort

Coyne vs. Shermer vs. Wood on the silliness of skepticism

Lightning rods and the Church: John Loftus resurrects a hoary old myth

Wallace's Problem and Darwin's Doubt: Still Unresolved?

Is evolution smarter than you are?

Over-egging the case for protein design

Why I don't find keiths's critique of Plantinga's Free Will Defense convincing

And now... my critical review of Intelligent Design advocate Dr. Douglas Axe's book, Undeniable, that got me invited to leave Uncommon Descent, and join The Skeptical Zone, back in 2016.

Undeniable packs a powerful punch, but doesn't land a knockout


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