Category: apologetics
Flattening out the Facts
A few nights ago I was in an argument with a friend that has given up inerrancy to force a Flat Earth cosmology into the text. He assumes a universal background continued into the early church and sticks to his talking points. I just deny the existence of any universal agreement on anything. He ignores evidence to the contrary and acts as if those ANE worldviews have no political reasons. Jason Engwer has done a masterful job in showing this is naive. He was responding to John Loftus and it shows liberals and atheist feed off each other. The liberal … Continue reading Flattening out the Facts
Atheism, Amoralism, and Arationalism
Are all infinite regresses bad?
http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2008/11/infinite-regresses-vicious-benign-virtuous.html http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2010/01/another-example-of-a-vicious-infinite-regress-philosophical-investigations-sec-239.html http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2008/11/vicious-and-benign-regresses-again.html http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2014/04/infinite-regresses-vicious-and-benign.html Continue reading Are all infinite regresses bad?
Plantinga and Classical Foundationalism
Doxastic vs Nondoxastic theories
In reading about the debates in Epistemology you run across terms like Doxastic and Nondoxastic. These usually show up in discussing the issue of justification. These terms are helpful in classifying different positions in this debate and are important for you to know. Doxastic deals with beliefs. You may read or hear it put as the “Doxastic assumption”. The doxastic assumption (from the Greek doxa, “belief”) refers to the view that the sole factor that justifies a belief for a person is the other beliefs that the person holds. James Porter Moreland; William Lane Craig. Philosophical Foundations for a Christian … Continue reading Doxastic vs Nondoxastic theories
Can we prove the existence of God?
Semiotic Analysis of the Observer in Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and a Possible Theory of Everything
You ever wonder what a Christian philosopher and theologian have to say on Quantum Mechanics? Look no further than Dr. Vern Poythress that has tackled almost any topic imaginable. Semiotic Analysis of the Observer in Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and a Possible Theory of Everything Antimatter Redeeming Physics: Biblical and Theological Resources for a God-Centered Approach Continue reading Semiotic Analysis of the Observer in Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and a Possible Theory of Everything
The argument from undesigned coincidences
An argument that was revived in recent years is the argument from undesigned coincidences in the Bible. It attests to both their truth and reliability. Tyler Vela: http://freedthinkerpodcast.blogspot.com/2013/04/undesigned-historical-coincidences-in.html?m=1 Dr. Timothy McGrew: http://www.apologetics315.com/2011/04/undesigned-coincidences-in-gospels-by.html?m=1 http://www.evidence4faith.com/shows/e4f-042411.mp3 Dr. Lydia McGrew: http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2016/04/lydia-mcgrew-on-undesigned-coincidences.html?m=1 http://whatswrongwiththeworld.net/2017/01/classifications_of_undesigned.html Undesigned coincidence: A sword shall pierce through thine own soul also Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts Apologetics academy: Steve Hays: http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-evidential-value-of-undesigned.html?m=1 Continue reading The argument from undesigned coincidences
The Council 
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