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Is Christian Terry Eagleton the New PZ Myers?
One response by religious people to the rise of the so-called “New Atheist” movement has been to wade into the trenches and ratchet up apologetic arguments in an effort to convince the wavering that...
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Why I Blog About Creationism
In response to recent posts about the ICR, their lawsuit, and creationism generally, commenter Phil takes me to task: “Evaluating” Christianity by picking on the Institute for Creation Research is like...
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Presuppositionalism, Part 5 (Or: What Counts As a Worldview?)
Continuing the discussion of presuppositionalist arguments for Christianity, one common thread seems to be that Christianity as a worldview better “explains” certain features of the world than does a...
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Substitutionary Atonement and the Analogy to the Courtroom
The Christian doctrine of substitutionary atonement is often explained by an analogy to the courtroom: sinners stand before a judge (God) and are properly adjudicated guilty and deserve punishment, but...
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The Case Against Lee Strobel
Answering another email question, this time about the occasional asides I’ve made here against Lee Strobel. Let me say this: the works of Lee Strobel are one of the things that crystallized my atheism....
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Fundamental Errors and the Cosmological Argument
In the comments section of this post, I get in to a bit of an exchange with Makarios over the common Christian apologetic, the Cosmological Argument. As I draw out in the comments, this argument always...
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Answering “Who Cares” #2: Natural Evil
While I was at trial, “Who Cares” left a number of comments across the blog that I’ll touch on. This is #2 in the Answering “Who Cares?” series. In the comment section of my third argument for the...
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The Final Word on Einstein’s “God”
Since the pernicious rumor that Einstein was a theist continues to make its way across the Internet, just keep in mind Einstein’s actual, final words on the subject: “The word God is for me nothing...
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Falsifiability and the Argument Regarding Design
Conceptually, I think the Argument Regarding Design — the notion that something must have created this wondrous universe that displays such complexity is bogus on basically every level, from the...
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More on Biblical Contradictions
There’s a great discussion going on in the comments section relating to Biblical contradictions; in light of that, I thought I’d clarify the point regarding those contradictions — at least to me. Let...
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