Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (Ch. 2, Part 1)
Do atheists have ulterior motives for not believing in God?
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (Ch1 Conclusion)
A critique of I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH TO BE AN ATHEIST, p. 42-43.
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (Ch.1, p.40-49)
When last we left our heroes (I mean authors Geisler and Turek, not Joe and me… lest there be any confusion), we had just been introduced to their patented Road Runner Tactic.
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (Ch.1, p.35-39)
And now to the meat.
With Chapters 1 and 2, Messrs. Geisler & Turek seek to prove, as you might expect, the first two points of their case for the Bible. These points are:
Truth about reality is knowable. .2 The opposite of true is false.
I’d divide their first …
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist” (p.17-19)
The 12-point argument for the Bible’s divinely-inspired authority doesn’t actually start until Chapter 1, but Mssrs. Geisler and Turek make a couple of assertions in their book’s introduction (”Finding the Box Top to the Puzzle of Life”) that require addressing – and more importantly, also begin to reveal a tendency they have to manipulate their …
Critiquing “I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist”: Intro
A couple of days ago I wrote about why I wouldn’t be writing a series on this blog rebutting Norm Geisler’s and Frank Turek’s I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist, a book I feel is pretty emblematic of Christian apologetics as a field.
This is the beginning of that series.
I changed my mind …
All Laws Legislate Morality
All laws legislate morality. Every advocate of a law eventually states a moral argument for why the law is necessary and proper. You can’t say that “you can’t legislate morality”. If you’re not legislating morality, what is it that you are legislating?
In Search of a Confident Faith (Ch.1, Pt.2): atheist annotations
Webmaster Joe is writing a series here on In Search of a Confident Faith, by J.P. Moreland and Klaus Issler. His post on the first half of Chapter 1 is here; his post on the rest of it, here.
Being this blog’s loyal opposition (I am loyal to Joe and opposed to most of what …
In Search of a Confident Faith (Chapter 1, Part 2)
I’m going to continue talking about what I learned in Chapter 1 of In Search of a Confident Faith. Last week, I talked about the first half of Chapter 1.
In Search of a Confident Faith (Chapter 1, Part 1)
Several months ago, I started reading through In Search of a Confident Faith. I quickly discovered that it had a lot of good information that I both wanted to remember and wanted to pass along. I’m finally at the point where I managed to write about Chapter 1, so I’m now going to inflict my enthusiasm on you.