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Showing posts with label evidence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evidence. Show all posts
Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Judas: the ultimate betrayal of Dembski and Licona

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So we come to the end, the final chapter, the ultimate culmination, the concluding, cogent case for the existence of God. At least, that...
Sunday, 13 May 2012

Biblical fan-fiction — not to be taken as gospel

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In the same vein as Craig L. Blomberg in the previous chapter, Charles L. Quarles asks "What Should We Think About the Gospel of Pete...
Sunday, 29 April 2012

New Testament canon — a boat that must not be rocked

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Craig L. Blomberg continues his exposition of scriptural arbitrariness with "What Should We Think About the Coptic Gospel of Thomas ?...
Sunday, 15 April 2012

An arbitrary collection of texts becomes "canonical"

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The New Testament is a collection of books written at different times by apparently different people. (As such, by modern literary definit...
Tuesday, 10 April 2012

An unreliable assessment of the reliability of the Gospels

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In Craig L. Blomberg 's "The Historical Reliability of the Gospels" — chapter 46 of Dembski & Licona 's Evidence for ...
Monday, 9 April 2012

As far as the Bible is confirmed as true, it is mundane

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"Archaeology and the Bible — How Archaeological Findings Have Enhanced the Credibility of the Bible" is chapter 45 of Dembski ...
Saturday, 31 March 2012

Textual transubstantiation

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"Why All the Translations?" is the question Denny Burk asks in the title of chapter 44 of Dembski & Licona 's Evidence f...
Saturday, 24 March 2012

Doubtful text is no standard for doctrinal accuracy

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"This chapter addresses a popular argument that is used against those who hold to an inerrant Bible. Essentially, the argument is pos...
Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Christianity's seminal documents still missing

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We come at last to the final section of Dembski & Licona 's Evidence for God , which is entitled The Question of the Bible . But I ...
Saturday, 18 February 2012

Did L. Ron Hubbard take lessons from St. Paul?

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And so we come to the end of the penultimate section in Dembski and Licona 's Evidence for God . The section entitled The Question of J...
Monday, 13 February 2012

Burden of proof

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Does the sandwich exist? I can see it in front of me. "The sandwich exists," I'm told. And there it is. While I'm lookin...
Sunday, 5 February 2012

The Road to Hell

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"What About Those Who Have Never Heard the Gospel?" This is the title of chapter 40 of Dembski & Licona 's Evidence for...
Friday, 30 December 2011

Resurrection of the gaps

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In "The Resurrection Appearances of Jesus" — Chapter 35 of Dembski & Licona 's Evidence for God — Gary R. Habermas an...
Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Four little words to sort the wheat from the chaff

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One question, central to the skeptical endeavour, is most likely to identify the real from the imaginary, the genuine from the fraudulent, a...
Sunday, 7 August 2011

Existence of followers isn't proof of that which is followed

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Several months ago on a Christian discussion forum I was asked two questions : 1) Who do YOU say Jesus was? 2) Do you deny the resurrec...
Saturday, 6 August 2011

A heartfelt invitation to believe

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Occasionally as an atheist I come across the saying, "It takes more faith to be an atheist than it does to believe in God." This, ...
Wednesday, 8 June 2011

Gonzalez & Richards back-to-front in Dembski & Licona's Evidence for God

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"Designed for Discovery" by Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards is the nineteenth chapter of Dembski & Licona 's Evi...
Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Oh look, numbers! (Therefore God?)

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I thought we had already reached the height of irrelevance in Dembski & Licona 's Evidence for God , but I was mistaken. Chapter 17...
Saturday, 23 April 2011

ID will be accepted as valid science when it comes up with peer-reviewed scientific research

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Chapter 12 of Dembski & Licona 's Evidence for God is an accommodationist's dream. In "What Every High School Student Sho...
Friday, 22 April 2011

A universe so fine-tuned, natural abiogenesis is impossible?

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The indecision of chapter 10 of Dembski & Licona 's Evidence for God appears to have carried over to chapter 11. Walter Bradley s...