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In my new book, The Death of Supernaturalism: The Case from Process Naturalism , I detail the growing skepticism around belief in the existence of God. I make the case that atheism will continue to be seen as an attractive alternative to theism as long as the case for belief remains unadapted to modern objections. (1) Perhaps no issue looms larger than that of the problem of evil. Indeed, evil is no less present, pernicious and perplexing in the modern world than it has ever

A week ago today, I published my fourth book. It is entitled The Death of Supernaturalism: The Case for Process Naturalism . In it, I explore the problems supernaturalism (which I define as the "idea of a divine being who can, and perhaps does, occasionally override the world's most fundamental causal processes") creates for theism. In my book, I posit that the problems of theodicy, divine hiddenness, biblical literalism, and the divide between science and religion, can be be

"It is vain for rationalism to grumble about this. If the mystical truth that comes to a man proves to be a force that he can live by, what mandate have we of the majority to order him to live any other way." (1) The Experiential Argument for God's Existence As a brief review, here is my argument to date: Premise 1 :  Human beings have experiences that evoke a profound sense of dependence, awe, and transcendence (what Schleiermacher calls the feeling of absolute dependence).

A Brief Intermission I have been enjoying the last couple of months writing my Defense for the Existence of God from Experience . There...