So I got into a little bit of a tiff on Facebook recently with a Creationist acquaintance and foolishly ended up promising to read any one book he desired. He chose Norman L. Geisler’s I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist.
I found the choice almost serendipitous, since I once toyed with annotating another one of Geisler’s books, his Big Book of Biblical Contradictions, before deciding I would rather do something else with my time (after all, I didn’t leave the Church just so I could switch teams). Now, however, I flirted with the idea of following through with the project using I Don’t Have Enough Faith…. The discovery that I Don’t Have Enough Faith… is free to download on Google Books almost clenched it for me; I wouldn’t have to worry about getting my copy back to the library on time.
Then I also found this lengthy but entertaining article by Kyle of ExChristian.net, in which he demolishes the same book point-by-point – and does such an effective job of it that I felt my enthusiasm disappear with every additional line I read.
Now I’ve finished and just don’t care again.
So it goes.