God and Evidence: A Cooperative Approach

This article identifies intellectualism as the view that if we simply think hard enough about our evidence, we get an adequate answer to the question of whether God exists. The article argues against intellectualism, and offers a better alternative involving a kind of volitional evidentialism. If God is redemptive in virtue of seeking divine -human reconciliation, we should expect the evidence for God to be likewise redemptive. In that case, according to the article, the evidence for God would aim to draw the human will toward cooperation with God’s will. Accordingly, the available evidence for God would be volitionally sensitive in that one’s coming to possess it would depend on one’s volitional stance toward its source. The article identifies some implications for divine hiddenness, traditional natural theology, and the view that the evidence for God’s existence is akin to evidence for a scientific hypothesis

Agapeic Theism: Personifying Evidence and Moral Struggle

The epistemology of monotheism offered by philosophers has given inadequate attention to the kind of foundational evidence to be expected of a personal God whose moral character is ’agapeic’, or perfectly loving, toward all other agents. This article counters this deficiency with the basis of a theistic epistemology that accommodates the distinctive moral character of a God worthy of worship. It captures the widely neglected ’agonic’, or struggle-oriented, character of a God who seeks, by way of personal witness and intentional action, to realize and manifest ’agape’ among humans who suffer from selfishness. In doing so, the article identifies the overlooked role of personifying evidence of God in human moral character formation. In agreement with some prominent New Testament themes, the new perspective offered ties the epistemology of monotheism to robust ’agapeic’ morality in a way that makes such epistemology ethically challenging for inquirers about God’s existence. Accordingly,

To Share or not to Share (or what makes employees cooperate)?

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Calculation of three-dimensional compressible laminar and turbulent boundary layers. Calculation of three-dimensional compressible boundary layers on arbitrary wings

A very general method for calculating compressible three-dimensional laminar and turbulent boundary layers on arbitrary wings is described. The method utilizes a nonorthogonal coordinate system for the boundary-layer calculations and includes a geometry package that represents the wing analytically. In the calculations all the geometric parameters of the coordinate system are accounted for. The Reynolds shear-stress terms are modeled by an eddy-viscosity formulation developed by Cebeci. The governing equations are solved by a very efficient two-point finite-difference method used earlier by Keller and Cebeci for two-dimensional flows and later by Cebeci for three-dimensional flows

Reconceiving philosophy of religion

Los filósofos han trabajado durante mucho tiempo con concepciones de Dios, inadecuadas para representar  a un Dios genuinamente digno de adoración. Una deficiencia importante es la omisión de la noción de  severidad divina, apropiada para la idea de un Dios digno de adoración. Como resultado, muchos filósofos  tienen expectativas equivocadas sobre Dios, es decir, expectativas que no concuerdan con lo que serían los  propósitos relevantes para Él, si Dios existiera. Estos últimos propósitos incluyen aquello que Dios busca  lograr cuando revela a los seres humanos (la evidencia de) su realidad y voluntad. Las expectativas  equivocadas de Dios nos pueden llevar a buscar pruebas de su existencia en todos los lugares equivocados.  El antídoto necesario requiere una reconsideración cuidadosa de nuestras expectativas sobre Dios, y nos  capacita para acercarnos a una epistemología de la religión, de una manera que le hace justicia a la idea de  un Dios digno de adoración. El artículo sostiene que la evidencia disponible a los seres humanos de un Dios  digno de adoración, no sería para meros espectadores, sino que buscaría desafiar la voluntad de los seres  humanos para cooperar con la voluntad perfecta de Dios, como sucede en el caso del desafío divino de  Getsemaní.Philosophers have long worked with conceptions of God inadequate to a God genuinely worthy of worship. A  key inadequacy is the omission of a notion of divine severity appropriate to the idea of a God worthy of  worship. As a result, many philosophers have misguided expectations for God, that is, expectations that fail  to match what would be God’s relevant purposes, if God exists. The latter purposes include what God aims to achieve in revealing to humans (the evidence of) God’s reality and will. Misguided expectations for God can  leave one looking for evidence for God in all the wrong places. The needed antidote calls for a careful  reconsideration of our expectations for God, and enables us to approach religious epistemology in a way that does justice to the idea of a God worthy of worship. The article contends that the evidence available to  humans from a God worthy of worship would not be for mere spectators, but instead would seek to  challenge the will of humans to cooperate with God’s perfect will, as in the case of the divine challenge from  Gethsemane

Studies in Romans

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Two Great Questions: What Did Christ Do To Save Sinners? and What Must I Do To Be Saved?

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Average output entropy for quantum channels

We study the regularized average Renyi output entropy \bar{S}_{r}^{\reg} of quantum channels. This quantity gives information about the average noisiness of the channel output arising from a typical, highly entangled input state in the limit of infinite dimensions. We find a closed expression for \beta_{r}^{\reg}, a quantity which we conjecture to be equal to \Srreg. We find an explicit form for \beta_{r}^{\reg} for some entanglement-breaking channels, and also for the qubit depolarizing channel $\Delta_{\lambda}$ as a function of the parameter $\lambda$. We prove equality of the two quantities in some cases, in particular we conclude that for $\Delta_{\lambda}$ both are non-analytic functions of the variable $\lambda$.Comment: 32 pages, several plots and figures; positivity condition added for Theorem on entanglement breaking channels; new result for entrywise positive channel