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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

W.L. Craig, the Resurrection, and the Complaint of Presuppositional Bias

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Apologists often presume that they’re scoring significant debating points when in fact they’re only succeeding at multiplying their own bur...
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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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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Walking on Water vs. Reality

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A famous passage in the gospel of Matthew goes as follows: And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to g...
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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Fishing with a Chick Tract

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So there I was this last Friday afternoon, minding my own business waiting for the Green Line on my way home from work. I had just moments ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

“…it’s easy to imagine all the saved in heaven…”

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It’s a particularly delicious treat when apologists unwittingly make damning concessions. Of course, this happens quite routinely, only it ...
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Saturday, September 05, 2015

The Hideous Rigors of Christian Salvation Doubt

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Apologists routinely present their religious faith as though they were as certain of its alleged truth as rock is hard. In fact, the bible ...
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Sunday, August 23, 2015

The Tragedy that is Christian Morality

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Over on Triablogue, blogger and long-time visitor to my blog Justin Hall challenged Steve Hays on his naïve, one-size-fits-all attempts to ...
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Sunday, July 26, 2015

Believer's Remorse

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I was doing some research last evening for a blog entry I’m working on, and in that research I found some choice quotes from Christian apol...
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Sunday, July 19, 2015

Being Prepared for Encounters with Evangelists

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Missionizing religionists are anxious to proselytize and win converts. They get frustrated when their harvests are meager, when their nets ...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Changing Your Views

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The topic of changing one’s views is constantly in play in discussions between religious believers and critics of religious beliefs. The qu...
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Sunday, June 07, 2015

From the Horse's Mouth... Again!

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Back in IP Year One , I posted an entry titled From the Horse’s Mouth: Apologists Shooting Themselves in the Foot . That entry contained a ...
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Monday, May 25, 2015

Does Atheism truly "render good and evil nebulous"?

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In this follow-up entry to my post Does Atheism Truly Lead to Nihilism? I examine a statement proffered by Steve Hays over on Triablogue ...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Does Atheism Truly Lead to Nihilism?

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A popular assumption among theists in American culture today is that atheism and nihilism are somehow inherently joined at the hip. As Stev...
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Sunday, April 26, 2015

Natural Born Atheists

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Over on Triablogue in a post titled ”We are all born atheists” , Steve Hays cites Peter Pike (remember him? He’s the guy who argued that i...
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Thursday, March 26, 2015

Incinerating Presuppositionalism: Year Ten

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Yes, folks, my blog Incinerating Presuppositionalism is turning TEN YEARS OLD today! That’s right, ten years ago today I posted the first...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

The Ending of the Gospel of Mark

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The final chapter of the gospel of Mark, Mark 16, represents a sore spot for Christian apologetics. The more attention it gets, the more it...
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Monday, March 23, 2015

Craig’s Eight Arguments for God, Part IX: “God can be personally known and experienced”

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We come now to the last of William Lane Craig’s eight arguments for the existence of his god which were published in the Nov/Dec 2013 issue...
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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Craig’s Eight Arguments for God, Part VIII: “The very possibility of God’s existence implies that God exists”

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We now come to William Lane Craig’s seventh argument. This comes from his set of arguments which were published in the Nov/Dec 2013 issue ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Craig’s Eight Arguments for God, Part VII: “God is the best explanation of objective moral values and duties”

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We now come to the sixth of eight arguments for theism published by William Lane Craig in Philosophy Now . Craig's previous five argume...
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Monday, March 16, 2015

Craig’s Eight Arguments for God, Part VI: “God is the best explanation of intentional states of consciousness”

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We now come to the sixth installment in my series examining eight arguments for the existence of a god published by William Lane Craig in t...
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