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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, August 14, 2019

Pardon My Skepticism...

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We’re all familiar with the story: The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered be...
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Sunday, July 28, 2019

The Agony of Agnosticism or: Why Not Mature Thoughtfulness?

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It’s common for apologists to market their theism in terms of dichotomies between two self-servingly construed hypotheticals, branding the ...
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Does Objectivism Deny the Reality of Change?

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Most readers here have probably heard the charge that on “the atheist worldview” everything is “matter in motion,” that everything is “in f...
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Monday, May 27, 2019

More on Wilson's Fizzing about Fizzing

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In last month’s entry I examined a couple paragraphs from Douglas Wilson’s opening statement in his debate with Theodore Drange in which...
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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Wilson's Fixation on Fizzing

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In my post celebrating the Fourteenth Anniversary of Incinerating Presuppositionalism , I mentioned that I’d be willing to entertain reques...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Incinerating Presuppositionalism: Year Fourteen

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And now we come to yet another milestone for this blog, Incinerating Presuppositionalism , as we reach the 14th anniversary since its incep...
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Sunday, March 10, 2019

The Speeches in Acts: History or Legend?

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Apologists routinely point to the Book of Acts as reliable history. Well, they sort of have to, given their dogmatic determination to prote...
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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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Saturday, January 05, 2019

The Metaphysics of Wishing

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If religious apologists deny that their worldview finds its basis in the metaphysics of wishing makes it so, it is incumbent upon them to a...
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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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