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Sunday, June 26, 2022

Same Old Song and Dance: Anderson on Induction... again

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Christian apologist James Anderson has published yet another article on the problem of induction , this time as others essentially repeating...
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Saturday, May 21, 2022

Apparently I don't have the right...

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Cornelius Van Til writes: No human being can explain in the sense of seeing through all things, but only he who believes in God has the righ...
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Thursday, April 28, 2022

Some Thoughts in Response to Anderson’s Argument on Propositions

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Last month, the Ivy League International Apologetics Database , aka ILIAD Forum, published an article by Christian apologist James Anderson ...
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Saturday, March 26, 2022

Incinerating Presuppositionalism: Year Seventeen

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The years keep rolling by, and the past one is no different – at least so far as “the passage of time” is concerned. This blog started on Ma...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

An Examination of Van Til’s "Argument from the Uniformity of Nature"

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A typical strategy of presuppositionalism is to focus on some area of philosophy which has historically been surrounded by controversy – a “...
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Thursday, January 06, 2022

An Examination of Van Til’s “Argument from the Unity of Knowledge”

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In my previous entry we surveyed the salient background features propping up Cornelius Van Til’s arguments for the existence of the Christi...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Preliminary Thoughts on Van Til’s “Argument from Unity of Knowledge”

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In his paper If Knowledge Then God: The Epistemological Theistic Arguments of Plantinga and Van Til (hereafter IKTG), Christian apologist J...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021

The Specter of Antithesis

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Presuppositional apologists often frame the conflict between their “worldview” and all other worldviews in terms of a fundamental antithesis...
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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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Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Christianity and Socialism

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Throughout my life it has been clear to me that many Christians assume that capitalism has its roots in Christianity, and that a proper defe...
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Saturday, August 28, 2021

David Wood, Star Trek, and the Inevitable Persistence of Religion

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Some weeks ago an acquaintance of mine asked me to comment on a video uploaded to a YouTube channel called Acts17Apologetics . This is David...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Gotquestions.org's Article on TAG

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A reader asked that I give my thoughts on Gotquestions.org’s response to the question What is the transcendental argument for the existence ...
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Thursday, June 24, 2021

Anderson versus Materialism, Part II: The Problem of Personal Identity over Time

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Back in February this year I posted an entry in which I interacted with the first of several “daunting philosophical problems for materiali...
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Friday, May 21, 2021

Answering the Epistemologist

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A reader who contacted me privately asked a number of questions the proper philosophical starting point and related matters. This reader, in...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

“Faith in the reasoning process”

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Recently a visitor to my blog stopped by and took some time to submit a comment on my latest entry . The visitor did not give a name, postin...
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Friday, March 26, 2021

Incinerating Presuppositionalism: Year Sixteen

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It’s that time of year again when we all get to sing a round of “Happy Birthday” for Incinerating Presuppositionalism . At sixteen years of ...
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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Anderson versus Materialism

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In a recent post on his blog , Christian apologist James Anderson takes NT scholar Bart Ehrman to task for his (the latter’s) overt confess...
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Thursday, January 28, 2021

Presuppositionalism and Induction: Thoughts on the Uniformity of Nature

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It is very common for presuppositionalists, when making the problem of induction a debating point, to center the issue on the uniformity of ...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Presuppositionalism and Induction: The Humean Condition

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In my previous post , I raised the concern over the very real specter of the problem of induction falling prey to the fallacy of the stolen ...
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Saturday, November 28, 2020

Presuppositionalism and Induction: Exhuming Hume

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When apologists raise the problem of induction in their encounters with non-Christians, they apparently expect non-Christians to be freshly ...
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