Wintery Knight’s Secular Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
WinteryKnight has developed what he calls a “secular case against same-sex marriage.” This post is addressed to the nontheists in the audience: do you think his case works? More importantly, why or why not? Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)
New Chick Tracts
Jack Chick does Islam. The reason you shouldn’t believe the Quran is the word of God because it says so is that the Bible is the word of God because it says so. Your name Your email Subject Your message (optional)
Victor Reppert on Atheist Responses to Moral Arguments
Commenting on how atheists have responded to William Lane Craig’s moral argument, Victor Reppert writes this. Yet, when I hear atheists talking about moral arguments, they always assume that the advocate of the moral argument is saying that we have to believe in God to lead moral lives, (and indignantly argue that we don’t have … Victor Reppert on Atheist Responses to Moral Arguments
William Lane Craig’s Critique of Bart Ehrman on the Probability of Miracles
As the saying goes, I have to “call ’em as I see ’em.” I just read, for the first time, the transcript of William Lane Craig’s debate with Bart Ehrman. I read, with great interest, Craig’s first rebuttal, where he makes extensive use of Bayes’s Theorem (BT) to critique two of Ehrman’s statements. Those two … William Lane Craig’s Critique of Bart Ehrman on the Probability of Miracles
Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence (ECREE), Part 2: Is ECREE False? A Reply to William Lane Craig
In my last post, I offered a Bayesian interpretation of the principle, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” (ECREE). William Lane Craig, however, disagrees with ECREE. In a response to philosopher Stephen Law, Craig wrote this. This sounds so commonsensical, doesn’t it? But in fact it is demonstrably false. Probability theorists studying what sort of evidence … Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence (ECREE), Part 2: Is ECREE False? A Reply to William Lane Craig
Can Theists Be Moral?
That’s a pretty silly question, isn’t it? I would argue that it is about as silly as the question, “Can Atheists Be Moral?” Even fundamentalist Christian philosophers grant that atheists can know moral principles and behave according to those principles. If someone wishes to deny that theists or atheists can have morals, it seems the … Can Theists Be Moral?
Checklist: Evaluating Claims about Jesus – Part 6
This post will briefly discuss the two final tests of “eyewitness evidence” (or rather, tests of the historical reliability and trustworthiness of the Gospel accounts) from The Case for Christ (CFC) by Lee Strobel. 7. THE CORROBORATION TEST I introduced this next test by asking Blomberg, “When the gospels mention people, places, and events, do … Checklist: Evaluating Claims about Jesus – Part 6
New Chick Tracts
Jack Chick celebrates hell, and shows that his version of the Christian God is a seriously nasty character. The sheer obnoxiousness of the divine moral order as envisioned by Chick may even call into question atheistic attempts to use evil to argue against the existence of an omnibenevolent God. If someone can endorse this sort … New Chick Tracts
New Chick Tract
Jack Chick does global warming denial. As a bonus, Chick’s “Was it ‘Global Warming’ or God’s Warning?” argues that extreme weather events in the US are due to the US not being friendly enough to Israeli interests. Presumably if we slaughter more Muslims, we will have fewer tornadoes. Your name Your email Subject Your message … New Chick Tract
New Chick tract
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