Reading Time: 3 minutes I have just finished a foreword for a book of debate openers and other essays for prolific atheist author John W. Loftus. His voluminous and impressive back catalog covers the whole gamut of anti-theist thinking and analysis. This book, Debating Christianity: Opening Salvos in the Battle with Believers contains, in Part I, the written debate openers […]
William Lane Craig
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Faith statements suffocate academic freedom
Reading Time: 5 minutes William Lane Craig dismisses bias as unimportant since everyone has it. I disagree. But his argument allows me to make a clarification about how we evaluate a scholarly argument.
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William Lane Craig replies to my attack on faith statements
Reading Time: 3 minutes I attacked faith statements, and Christian apologist William Lane Craig replied. I have a few things to say in response.
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William Lane Craig wrong about morality again as he justifies Hell
Reading Time: 4 minutes William Lane Craig dances around the question; “Can a loving god send people to hell?” It’s an embarrassing question for Christians; and Craig’s analysis doesn’t help.
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Obliterating the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Reading Time: 4 minutes I love me a bit of the Kalam. Well, more accurately, a bit of criticism of the Kalam. What am I talking about? What is this Kalam? Well, the Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA) is a short, three-lined syllogism that supposedly shows that the universe required a cause for its existence, and with some mental gerrymandering, […]
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The “Real” “Minimal Facts” about Jesus
Reading Time: 9 minutes In the closing stages of writing my latest book, The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK], I had a few test readers. One was David Austin, down in Australia, who has provided a few guest articles for your delectation. Here is another one – thanks muchly to him: The “Real” “Minimal Facts” about Jesus […]
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Animal Suffering, William Lane Craig, and Christian Apologetics
Reading Time: 8 minutes Animal suffering is a thorn in the side of Christian apologists because no theodicy adequately justifies its existence. This is due to the fact that most theodicies revolve around the pain and suffering of humans and attach the blame for such suffering solely to humans themselves. In some way, they get what they deserve. If not […]
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Lowder, Kalam and Creating the Universe from Nothing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here is the foreword to my book Did God Create the Universe from Nothing: Countering William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument [UK] by Jeffery Jay Lowder. I think this is one of my tightest books, one that I am particularly proud of. Anyway, over to Lowder: There are many arguments for and against God’s existence. For almost […]
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Sinnott-Armstrong, Unfair Distribution of Evidence for God, Belief, & Free Will
Reading Time: 4 minutes To continue the theme of evidence with relation to convincing believers and non-believers to either maintain their belief or take on belief in God, after the recent set of articles concerning Doubting Thomas, let me bring philosopher Walter Sinnott-Armstrong into play with a quote from his book with William Lane Craig entitled God? A Debate between a Christian […]
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‘Logical Christians’ and the Great Divorce Between Beliefs and Behavior
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hi and welcome back! For the past few days, we’ve been talking about a theme: the way toxic people cultivate a complete divorce between their beliefs and their behavior, between fantasy and reality. Indeed, a vast number of Christians consider themselves to be very logical people who only adopted their various (contradictory) opinions as a […]