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Sunday, December 16, 2018

Are the Gospel Crucifixion Scenes Eyewitness Accounts?

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Everyone agrees that Jesus was crucified and died on the cross, right? Maybe. But even if that’s true, widespread agreement on a claim does...
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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, October 29, 2018

Is human life really “futile” without a god?

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I’ve often heard claims to the effect that “life would be futile without God.” It’s not always clear what specifically this statement is in...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Parsing the Haysian Square-Circle

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Here I will post some thoughts and counterpoints to a post Steve Hays published on Triablogue at the end of July this year called Square o...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The Burden of Proof

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People engaged in or looking for a debate often make a big fuss about who has the burden of proof. Atheists say that theists exclusively ha...
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Saturday, July 28, 2018

The Disgruntled Apologist

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Over on Triablogue Steve Hays titles a recent post with the words Sometimes ignorance is bliss . I’ll have to take his word for it that th...
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Thursday, June 28, 2018

The Futility of Theodicy

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Several weeks ago on his blog, Christian apologist James Anderson plugged Greg Welty’s newly released book on the problem of evil on his (A...
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Sunday, May 27, 2018

Edward Feser on Ayn Rand

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A couple of months ago a reader of my blog wrote to me privately and asked me to comment on a January 2014 blog posting of one Edward Feser...
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Saturday, April 28, 2018

Existence and Perception

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Fundamental principles are the most critical part of philosophy to get right since all inferences, deductions and applications of its princ...
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Monday, March 26, 2018

Incinerating Presuppositionalism: Year Thirteen

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Again we now come to another anniversary of this blog’s inception, marking a full 13 years since its inaugural post in March 2005. While I’...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Does Following the Evidence Lead One Over a Cliff?

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Over on Triablogue , apologist Steve Hays has posted a blog entitled Am I a presuppositionalist? In this entry, Hays runs through a number...
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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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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

"What would convince you?"

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Often Christians seeking to defend their religious views will ask non-believers what they would accept as convincing evidence that their go...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

“Where did morality come from?”

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I often find theistic apologists asking this question to non-theists. While some individuals may be genuinely interested in finding an answ...
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Monday, October 30, 2017

Do Atheists Face a Dilemma Inherent in Atheism?

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Steve Hays of Triablogue has yet again come out with another hit piece to malign “atheists” generally. He must really resent people who d...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Christian Hope

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There’s nothing like the hope offered by Christianity: Christian Numerologist Says World Will End On Sept. 23 There’s a lot there to ...
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Monday, August 28, 2017

D'oh!

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Christian apologist: I don’t understand why atheists make such a big deal about God when they say God doesn’t exist. Why make a big deal ab...
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Friday, July 28, 2017

Do Gardens Imply the Existence of Invisible Magic Beings?

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Christian apologist James Anderson has posted another fun little blog entry, this one titled On Fairies and Gardeners , over on his site Pr...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Andy Bannister on Atheism

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I’ve always been amazed, sometimes terrifyingly so, at how routinely, how matter-of-factly, how unquestioningly, persons who are otherwise ...
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Monday, May 08, 2017

Anderson on the Lowder-Turek Debate

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James Anderson recently published his review of the Lowder-Turek Debate Over the past several years I haven’t been watching a lot of the...
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