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Friday, November 25, 2016

Here we go again...

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I swear, if I had a dime for every time a thinker came along and tried to disprove the primacy of existence, I’d well be on my way to a ver...
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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, August 07, 2016

Normativity and the Primacy of Existence

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Ever-valiant defender of the faith James Anderson has posted a blog entry titled Atheism, Amoralism, and Arationalism . It’s more of the us...
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Friday, July 29, 2016

Prayer Wishes and Paranoia

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Earlier this month over on Triablogue, Steve Hays posted an entry titled What do you do when no one is watching you? in which he tackles w...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

"I'll pray for you"

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It’s not unusual for defenders of the Christian worldview to close a conversation with non-believers with the words, “I’ll pray for you.” I...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

Frame vs. Poythress on the Notion of ‘Chance’

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As a matter of thoughtless routine, Christian apologists the internet over love to accuse non-believers of believing in “a chance universe....
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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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Saturday, March 26, 2016

Incinerating Presuppositionalism: Year Eleven

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The years are rolling by quickly, which means that the content on my blog continues to grow! As is my “tradition” here at IP, each year o...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016

"Don't you dare disbelieve!"

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We have already seen many ways in which faith opposes reason. (cf. here .) Thus we can say with certainty that a culture which predominantl...
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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Monday, February 15, 2016

G.A. Wells’ “Guidelines for Hostile Writing”

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It has often been observed that it’s the pioneers who take the arrows. As independent thinkers throughout history have bravely ventured int...
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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Ten Ways Faith Opposes Reason

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Thinkers since the Renaissance have rightly sensed the destructive conflict faith poses to man’s intellect, his freedom, and his advancemen...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

William Lane Craig Versus Objective Morality

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I know, not this guy again, right? William Lane Craig v. objective morality? I mean, can it get any more mismatched than this? It’s true....
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Friday, December 25, 2015

The Moral Virtues of Objectivism

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In her novel Atlas Shrugged , Ayn Rand gives one of her main characters a lengthy speech in which she lays out the general features of her ...
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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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