Robert Price reviewed God or Godless in Free Inquiry Magazine and John Loftus is over the moon about it. He emailed me and the Baker publicist yesterday to let us know. In his email he gleefully wrote: “Unfortunately [Price] doesn’t have anything good to say about Randal’s arguments saying I ‘systematically punctured’ them like one who popped [...]
Read moreFaithful readers of this blog will probably know that one of my readers, Jeff, has been criticizing my position that testimony can be a properly basic source of justified belief and knowledge (absent defeaters to the truth of the testimony). On Jeff’s view, testimony is always non-basic and is only rationally assented to based on [...]
Read moreIt was a long process but finally The Tentative Apologist Podcast has been launched. It has replaced “News/Events” on the homepage header (nestled in right beside “Blog”). My first interview is with evolutionary creationist Denis Lamoureux. You can check it out here. So check it out, be patient as the production values become more polished [...]
Read moreFor those interested in some background reading for my article “How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #4 Believe what is probable, not merely possible” I recommend my two-part critique of John Loftus’ essay “Christianity is wildly improbable,” titled “The End of Christianity? (Part 4)” and “John W. Loftus and a Swede named Mario“. Those [...]
Read moreA couple years ago I wrote an article titled “How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #1 Compare Santa to Jesus.” The article was widely lauded by my minions of readers, leading to two follow ups, “#2 The Indistinguishable Argument“, and “#3 Security Blanket Gambit“. All of these are wonderfully bad arguments which flourish on [...]
Read moreThe latest review comes from the “Panorama of a Book Saint” blog. You can read the review here. The blogger, Dr. Conrade Yap, liked the book and was more sympathetic with my arguments (not surprising given that he is a Christian theist). However, Dr. Yap does say some things that left me perplexed and suspecting [...]
Read moreThe other day I was speaking about doubt to a group of Christians. During the discussion that followed one lady said that while she was a Christian, she thought that even if Christianity is false and reincarnation is true, that her current belief system would put her in good stead with the law(s) of reincarnation. [...]
Read moreI was asked to share my thoughts on this question today, though as you can probably guess I’ve heard this one before. People often leap to the task of answering a question like this without first taking a breath and examining the question itself. But what does it even mean to ask if Christianity is [...]
Read moreFor part 1 click here. (Warning: if you haven’t read part 1 yet then you should or part 2 won’t make much sense.) After thinking about the issue a bit more I decided there is a simpler and more elegant way to demonstrate that there is no incompatibility between the first premise of the kalam [...]
Read moreJonathan Pearce made a comment in the discussion thread to “God or Godless and a Tippling Philosopher (Part 2)” which caught my attention. He said: “if you ascribe to the Kalam cosmological argument AND believe in free will, one refutes the other, since free will implies ex nihilo creation (or a causal chain), so there [...]
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