In my post on salvation by faith, I mentioned the fact that God does not behave as though He believed all the things men say about Him, particularly as concerns His alleged love for us and His alleged desire to be part of a personal, loving and real relationship with each of us. Eric takes …
Category Archive: Superstition
Dec 10 2011
Verifiable worldviews
If you ask young-earth creationists what they think about postmodernism, you’ll find they generally consider it the height of liberal apostasy. Truth, they’ll tell you, is absolute, and not just some postmodernist “social construct.” If you then point out some of the scientific evidence against a literal Genesis creation, you’ll catch them in a bit …
Nov 25 2011
Superstitious Faith
[Originally published July 30, 2007] Via Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge, we have a good example of the “superstitious” apologetic for faith in God: My relationship with God isn’t based on wishful thinking, it’s based on the fact that I actually am blessed to have a relationship with God. Basically, you must simply dismiss any …
Nov 10 2011
The Dawkins/Lewis debate
Looks like the fine folks at “Truthbomb Apologetics” have set up an impromptu “debate” of their own between Richard Dawkins and C. S. Lewis. It has this in its favor: it’s short. Richard Dawkins: “The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no …
Oct 23 2011
Selfish morality
Over at the other blog, we’re up to Chapter 6 of William Lane Craig’s book On Guard. He’s trying to claim that we say some things are right and some things are wrong, and therefore God exists. What he actually ends up proving, however, is that he has a very conceited opinion about his own …
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