One challenge to the Christian faith is the claim that the uneven distribution of faith around the globe may challenge some of Christian claims about God. This topic is nicely described in this abstract: According to the much-discussed argument from divine hiddenness, God’s existence is...
One of my favorite atheist podcasts is from The Thinking Atheist. Seth, the proprietor of TA, is a former Christian who is now an outspoken atheist apologist. He is both thoughtful as well as, at times, maddeningly blind to his lapses into some of the...
You could classify objections to the claims of scriptures in three categories: External – historical or scientific inaccuracies Internal – too many textual variants or obvious interpolations and other later edits Internal – logical inconsistencies In this last category falls the serious objection known as...
In The Evil God Challenge, Flipping Arguments, I attempted to outline Stephen Law’s argument against the existence of a good God. In this post, I present the arguments that undermine Law’s argument. Enjoy. 1. Theodicies are NOT arguments FOR a good God. In the EGC,...
In a recent, highly publicized series of debates in the U.K. between William Lane Craig, Christian philosopher and apologist, and a series of atheists, resulted in some very interesting outcomes. One new emphasis that came from the seemingly exhausted subject of God’s existence was what...
Making headlines in atheist circles is the fact that one of the former members of John Loftus’ team over at Debunking Christianity has left atheism and ‘reconverted’ back to Christianity. In Autobahn To Damascus, Darrin Raspberry outlined some of his reasons for reconversion, and those...
I love the whole debate scene, and I have listened to a lot of Christian and non-Christian news podcasts, and narrowed down my favorites to Guide: Favorite Podcasts for Christians. Now, I want to venture out into the land of…
Recently, Stewart from Insulted proposed a list of what he called 10 Questions Your Pastor Can’t Answer. I’m not sure how difficult these questions would be for my pastor, but they were rather difficult for me. That being said, I do have answers to each...
