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  • What Every Atheist Knows: Practice

    Picking up where yesterday left off, it is still left to defend that in principle, every atheist knows that God exists. The point the atheist is striving to make is that they do not believe that fact to be true. However, it is possible to know something to be true, yet believe that proposition to…

  • What Every Atheist Knows: Thought

    Based on some of the dialogue from the Answer a Fool post, I think it might be helpful to make explicit some of the assumptions I bring to the table in rational argumentation. Since that post (and the one preceding it) got their jump start from Bahnsen’s book, it might be best to return there as he…

  • A Concise Review of The Greatest Show on Earth

    Hopefully this post can live up to its title and actually be concise and to the point and not sprawling and wordy. Much of today relies on yesterday’s ideas about logic, so if you haven’t read that, go back and read A Few Thoughts on Logic. Now that you’ve done that, we can more forward…

  • A Few Thoughts on Logic

    This basis of this post has been brewing for quite a while, but it didn’t seem like it would make a long enough post to actually do until now. This will have two parts, a brief discussion of the two common types of arguments and how they are misconstrued, followed by a discussion of which…

  • The Enthymeme of Unbelief

    Rather than blogging over the last week, most of my attention was diverted to the comment thread on Idolatry: Pharisees (C). If I wanted to I suppose, I could highlight most of my arguments throughout and use as an example of apologetics, both in the historical sense of apologetics from history and in the philosophical…

  • An Application of the Epistemological Argument

    A couple of days ago, we explored the idea of an epistemological argument for the existence of God. In Philosophy of Religion class today, we were examining the contents of the argument for God from the fine tuning of the universe for the existence of life. The basic idea (and this is probably an oversimplification)…

  • An Epistemological Argument

    In Philsophy of Religion class, we are talking through the arguments for the existence of God. So far, we have seen how Paley’s rendering of the teleological argument is quite frankly, a bad argument as far as arguments go. Now this isn’t to deny that we believe the universe is designed by God, but that…

  • Philosophy 101: Transcendental Arguments

    As promised, in this essay we’ll need to deal with what we more or less did the last time around. That is, we need to address our more or less assuming the Christian worldview. This necessarily makes this and probably the next essay a bit more apologetical. In a broad sense, this whole blog series…