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Showing posts with label imagination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label imagination. Show all posts
Monday, January 27, 2025

Imagining Creation

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Many thinkers insist that the universe cannot be eternal, that it must have been caused to exist by some previously existing power or agency...
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Friday, April 26, 2024

Why are you an atheist?

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Some time ago a reader asked me to take a look at Michael Brown’s 7 honest questions for atheists . I agreed to do so when I had time and sa...
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Monday, January 16, 2023

Buried Signposts

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Some fifteen years ago or so, I watched an episode of a program called “I Shouldn’t Be Alive.” The episode, titled “Lost in the Snow” (avail...
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Friday, November 25, 2022

Evolution and the Persistence of Religion

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Many thinkers apparently believe that there is a contradiction of sorts between the theory that human beings evolved from more primitive org...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Is Creation Possible?

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In their book Handbook of Christian Apologetics , authors Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli introduce their discussion of the topic of divine ...
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Monday, October 25, 2021

"He walked among us"

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I recently had a discussion with an acquaintance of mine about beliefs, worldviews, religious assumptions, the whole shebang. It was a fasci...
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Thursday, August 27, 2020

My Refutation of STB: Ten Years On

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Here at Incinerating Presuppositionalism , I like to recognize special anniversaries, milestones and achievements which mark the highlights ...
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Sunday, February 02, 2020

WSIBC: “God and Existence” – Part 2: Contingency Desperation

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In my previous entry I began exploring the first of six cases which Christian apologist James Anderson presents in defense of theism in th...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Preliminary Worldview Considerations before Anderson’s WSIBC

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In my previous entry , I announced my recent purchase of James Anderson’s book Why Should I Believe Christianity? (WSIBC) – which as of th...
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Friday, November 22, 2019

Initial Questions for James Anderson's "Why Should I Believe Christianity"

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I recently ordered Dr. James N. Anderson’s book Why Should I Believe Christianity? . With much anticipation, it has finally arrived and I a...
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Friday, November 08, 2019

"He is found in our hearts"

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Christian apologists often carry on as if they’re know-it-alls when it comes to arguments. It’s possible that some might even know what an ...
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Shrugging off Mysticism

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Mysticism is like an odorless toxic gas, and just as dangerous. It often goes undetected precisely because people generally have not learne...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Steve Hays' Invisible Friend

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Steve Hays of Triablogue is frustrated. He's upset because atheists liken Jesus or Yahweh to an invisible friend . In spite of his hur...
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Monday, November 26, 2018

Faith and Imagining

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One of the more prickly topics in debates between Christians and their critics, at least in my experience, is the issue of faith – what it ...
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Monday, January 01, 2018

Is the Christian God a "Necessary Being"?

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Recently Steve Hays over at Triablogue posted a blog entry titled Who Made God? . This entry offers some instructive opportunities for eng...
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Sunday, October 23, 2016

Exchange with a Presuppositionalist

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Over the past few weeks I’ve been engaged in an exchange with a presuppositionalist apologist over on the comments section of one his blog’...
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Sunday, September 11, 2016

Does One Need Evidence to Be an Atheist?

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“[A]theism is just a statement of what an atheist doesn't believe rather than what he does believe” – Steve Hays Over on Triablogue...
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Sunday, April 17, 2016

The "Mistakes of Apostates"

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Last fall over on Triablogue, Steve Hays posted yet another blog entry maligning the character of “apostates” – i.e., former adherents of ...
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Sunday, March 13, 2016

Creationism, the Universe, and Imagination

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Religious apologists have a very limited set of gimmicks to use in defense of their theistic confessions. When more philosophical strategie...
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Saturday, November 07, 2015

Is the Resurrection Story “too improbable” to Believe?

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I thought it would be instructive to interact with this recent caricature piece by Steve Hays: Even if it happened, I refuse to believe it!...
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