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Herr Professor Strikes Back: atheist Deacon Duncan takes issue with my arguments
| December 18, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under atheism, Blog, General, theism, theology |
I noticed the other day that someone had taken the time to respond at length to my post discussing trancendence, immanence, logic and superlogic. Then I woke up this morning to find out he had posted again on it! Herr Professor, this is just too much! 
Herr Professor, now going by Deacon Duncan, knows that I prefer to have extended discussions on my discussion forum but he has sufficiently stroked my ego that I think a post or two is warranted. It is not every day that I am described as smart and sophisticated and that my arguments are clever. However, since the Professor already is two posts ahead of me he will have to be patient as I catch up. Below is part one. Please read this to the very end, or not at all.
For this entry I am responding mainly to his first article, ‘Can God do Nonsense?’
From the start, I’d like to point out that H. Professor admitted one of my contentions as reasonable. I had argued that an evaluation of God’s ‘omni’ nature doesn’t require that he performs nonsensical demands, like making a rock he cannot lift. I said that even atheists can accept this, and H. Professor did.
Religion (ie, Christianity) requires higher scrutiny because it demands massive commitments
| December 5, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
In the last week or so I had two exchanges where the debate turned on why the atheist/agnostic was demanding a higher level of scrutiny for ‘religious’ claims than other kinds of claims. In one of the cases, the really odd thing is that the person(s) had admitted that science, being limited as it is to the natural order, is unable to touch the supernatural and yet continued to say that science nonetheless remains the best way to learn about the world. This is not coherent. When pressed, in this case they again admitted that science couldn’t prove or disprove the supernatural but continued to insist that we use science to investigate the question. Truly, this world leaves me scratching my head.
Atheists begin Christmas Advertising Campaign, Buses in DC
| November 12, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
I suppose a lot of you have already heard about this new advertising campaign? The purpose of the campaign is to “to plant a seed of rational thought and critical thinking and questioning in people’s minds.” If they succeed, they will initiate a wave of conversions to Christianity. Why? Check out the slogan:
Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness sake!
Any rational person will immediately ask himself just how one knows what ‘good’ is, anyway.
The Regularity of Natural Laws is a Pre-Condition for Reliably Detecting God
| October 18, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
So, far from being evidence for atheism and far from supporting a presumption of naturalism, the observed patterns of the universe are the pre-requisite, the minimal requirement, for reliably detecting a supernatural agent, namely God. That doesn’t mean that there is a God. It doesn’t mean we have to believe every report of a violation of the laws of nature that we hear. It does mean that we can’t dismiss them out of hand if the very point of our investigation is to decide if there is a God, for it is precisely such accounts- and only these kinds of accounts- that could allow us to reliably determine that there is a God.
The Problem of Pain Defeated by the Problem of Good
| October 6, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
A recent commentator on my youtube vid of me responding to a question about the problem of pain declares “The analogy fails.” What I had said was that the problem of pain reflected a heart wrenching reaction to what we see in the world but we already have in hand the principle to unravel it:…
God Created Your Brain: Fall 2008 Online Apologetics Academy Enrolling
| October 3, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
The Athanatos Online Apologetics Academy announces their fall session starting dates and courses offered. They include: “Studies in Atheism” “Biblical Greek” “Reliability of the New Testament” “Formation of the New Testament Canon.” Others may be offered. Visit www.academyofapologetics.com for more information.
One Atheist Admits I’m Right, Another Responds to Big Bang Post
| September 26, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, Antony Flew, Blog |
Atheist One. It is not very often that you get an admission as clear as the one that was posted on my forum today. I asserted in this post on my blog that at the bottom, most atheistic arguments against the existence of God are based on the ‘presumption of naturalism’ with The atheist on…
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