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	<title>God. Real. Right. &#187; Metaphysics</title>
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		<title>Free Will: Explanations of God&#8217;s Foreknowledge Are Unnecessary</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/11/14/free-will-explanations-of-gods-foreknowledge-are-unnecessary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post concludes the first difficulty of denying the reality of free will. That first difficulty is that it underestimates the nature and power of God.
2.1.2.2  Even explaining God’s foreknowledge while accepting free will is too great a limit on God.
Using God’s foreknowledge of possibilities as a means of explaining freedom while maintaining God’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: Biblical Claims that God Repents Rebut the Idea that God Is Bound by Necessity</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/09/24/free-will-biblical-claims-that-god-repents-rebut-the-idea-that-god-is-bound-by-necessity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post continues the series begun here, the to-date-compilation of which is available here.
2.1.2.1.2 That God repents is evidence that God makes things the best, not that He must simply act within some externally defined best.
Even accepting the mistaken idea that there are a finite number of possibilities (too great a limit on God) there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human: Biological or Ethical?</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/09/12/human-biological-or-ethical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A note on terms in the argument: in this post, biology serves as the representative of material reductionism or just of naturalism, since it is the closest a reductionist can come to anything complex or progressive enough to explain the features which non-reductionists claim to exist. Similarly, evolution in this post is simply the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whence Evil: God?</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/09/01/whence-evil-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Hurricanes strike, as Gustav is doing right now, age-old questions are raised again. Some are about how to react and why. But some are more basic, about the source of all kinds of problems persistently faced by man. This post is about that question: from where comes evil?
The first eight and a half lines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: Another Way Denying It Underestimates the Sovereignty of God</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/08/28/free-will-another-way-denying-it-underestimates-the-sovereignty-of-god/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/08/28/free-will-another-way-denying-it-underestimates-the-sovereignty-of-god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://barrycreamer.com/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two previous posts identify the most difficult philosophical obstacle and most obvious practical objection to believing in a radical free will.
The post on free will before this one identifies the key theological problem of rejecting the possibility of radical free will. This post adds to that one another example of how rejecting free will goes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Science Cannot Tell the Truth: The Moral Value of Technology</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/08/12/why-science-cannot-tell-the-truth-the-moral-value-of-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/08/12/why-science-cannot-tell-the-truth-the-moral-value-of-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last post on science touts the material benefits of science for societies which respect liberty. But because that argument makes some people think science should operate without restriction, this post deals with the moral value of science&#8217;s product: technology. (This post is a necessary excursion on the way to defining science, which is next.)
Scientists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: First Problem of Rejecting it&#8211;Denying its Possibility Denies God&#8217;s Sovereignty</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/08/07/free-will-first-problem-of-rejecting-it-denying-its-possibility-denies-gods-sovereignty/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/08/07/free-will-first-problem-of-rejecting-it-denying-its-possibility-denies-gods-sovereignty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://barrycreamer.com/?p=234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two previous posts identify the most difficult philosophical obstacle and most obvious practical objection to believing in a radical free will.
This post begins the opposite task: identifying the key theological (or philosophical) problem of rejecting the possibility of radical free will. There will be about six posts working on this part of the task.
Subsequent posts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Science Cannot Tell the Truth: The Power(s) of Science</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/07/28/why-science-cannot-tell-the-truth-the-powers-of-science/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/07/28/why-science-cannot-tell-the-truth-the-powers-of-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original post about science is here. In that post, there are four sections, all requiring background and filling. The first one is setting:
this opinion is not Luddite. It’s neither anti-science nor anti-technology. Indeed, both science and technology are amazing results of the scientific-empirical or hypothetico-inductive method. The power and practicality of engineers and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will: Introduction and First Part of the Problem&#8211;The Dilemma of Free Will</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/07/24/free-will-introduction-and-first-part-of-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/07/24/free-will-introduction-and-first-part-of-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reality of free will. 
In modern culture either psychology or physics explains everything. So there is no room for real freedom. In many forms of orthodox, contemporary religion there is the belief that God chooses evil in order that good may come and that sin happens to be one form of that evil. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Science Cannot Tell the Truth</title>
		<link>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/07/15/why-science-cannot-tell-the-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://barrycreamer.com/2008/07/15/why-science-cannot-tell-the-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is not about scientists; it is about science. And it is not about whether or why scientists actually do or don&#8217;t tell the truth; it is about why it is impossible for science to tell the truth. There is no way even to broach this subject effectively in a single post&#8211;a fact discovered [...]]]></description>
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