This is the sixth installment of my meandering review of John Loftus’ book Why I Became an Atheist. For part five click here. In this section I’m going to critique Loftus’ understanding and presentation of Alvin Plantinga’s epistemology in chapter 2. This section begins on page 44. Since I defended Plantinga’s epistemology in my PhD thesis […]
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If a child can do it, why can’t John Loftus?
Here is John’s latest response, titled “Even a child can do it,” in full: “Let’s say a recognized expert on cats claims one of them talked. People do not have to be experts in cats to say they need to see the evidence. Nor do any of us need a theory of knowledge to doubt it. But […]
What John Loftus needs to do to be taken seriously
I’m going to be busy for all of today and tomorrow teaching, but I couldn’t resist taking a moment to respond to this passage from John Loftus: “All you need to do, Randal, is say that what you have concluded is more probable than other alternatives and that you do not claim a higher probability […]
