Quote(s) of the Day: A Pair of Responses to van Inwagen's "Body Snatching" Account of the Resurrection
Peter van Inwagen famously argued in his 1978 paper "The Possibility of Resurrection" that the only way God can bring a dead person back to life is to raise the very same body. However, if the body has decayed or been cremated, then it doesn't exist to be raised. Therefore, van Inwagen reasons, if Christianity is true, God must, at the moment of death (or immediately prior) surreptitiously remove the dead/dying body and spirit it away somewhere, replacing it with a simulacrum. Otherwise, there could be no afterlife. Unsurprisingly, this has met with some "incredulous stares." Here are a couple...
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I'm Back!
Ok. It looks like I'm finally back in action here. It also looks like, just as I predicted, the Internet got along just fine without me. A lot has happened in my life in the month or so that I have been away from blogging. The three biggest news items are, in chronological order: I got married The online version of "The Semantics of Sense Perception" was published I moved to Los Angeles Now that the major life changes have more or less settled down (we've been married for three weeks and in our new apartment in LA for one...
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