#434 | Greg claims the “odds on favorite” explanation for the universe is a creator. He disparages “belligerent atheists“ who disagree. Isn’t it actually more belligerent to reject mainstream views of cosmologists? Do apologists know more than cosmologist on this topic?
#376 | What is the name of the following tactic? — “If you just listen for it, you’ll hear the contradiction every single time.” (Greg Koukl claiming moral nihilists are secret moralists) — “If you just listen for it, you’ll hear the racism every single time” (The left claiming Christians are secret racists)
#322 | Is the inability to countenence the possiblity of a non-divine Bible an example of a philosophical bias? Or is is worse? While biases may simply distort assigned probabilities, the supposed impossibility of a non-divine Bible is a clear epistemic error, right?
#256 | With so many non-atheists who find Christianity incoherent, why not address their arguments? It sounds as if you feel interlocutors need their own dogmatic position before their criticisms of your own position become legit. How does that work?
#247 | A body drained of blood is found. Victor blames vampires. Julie has no clue what might have been the cause. Does Julie’s lack of knowledge prevent her from legitimately criticizing Victor’s claim? Or does she need to be committed to an alternative hypothesis first?
#172 | Should not the many times throughout history in which Christians, instead of admitting ignorance, cited scripture to significantly err on scientific questions now warrant a hitherto unseen humility on such questions?
#127 | Is it more probable that 1) PhDed determinists don’t grasp the simple notion that random events don’t lead to rational thoughts or that 2) they are saying something that Christians without degrees in the relevant fields nor a disposition to dig deeper don’t understand?
#106 | Should young Christians be warned against supposing Jesus will come back in their generation since every generation for a couple of millennia have thought the very same thing? Or does the current generation have greater access to the Holy Spirit?
#078 | How would you, in the context of limited scientific knowledge a thousand years ago, have convinced the theists claiming that humans were clearly significant due to our apparent privileged location (geocentrism) and preeminence of the Earth that size doesn’t matter?
#074 | Greg oddly seems to have disparaged the “doxastic openness” of an “atheist“, calling it only a “tactic“, that provides the atheist more rhetorical maneuverability. But isn’t mapping your degree of credence to the degree of the evidence foundational to any honest epistemology?
#042 | Do the millenia of repeated failures of supernatural explanations (e.g., lightning/earthquakes/disease) warrant more epistemic humility among theists today making similar claims? Or can we now simply ignore this poor track record when exploring human origins, souls, etc?
#024 | If theists between Newton and Einstein had claimed that, because Newton’s laws failed to fully explain planetary orbits (true), the God of the Bible must have a role in their orbits (now fully explained by Einstein’s general relativity), how should we have responded?
#022 | Why do so many Christians keep claiming in the face of contrary evidence that the bulk of physicists hold that the universe had a beginning? Shouldn’t Christians map their statements about the cosmos to what cosmologist are actually saying?
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