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rationality

Would you buy a serial killer’s house?

February 14, 2011 by Randal

Let’s say that the average home in the neighborhood in which you desperately want to live is priced at $500,000 which is at least one hundred thousand out of your reach. Then a new home comes on the market, priced far below market value at $350,000. The only problem: it was owned by a serial killer who polished […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: rationality, real estate, serial killer

Being completely objective about your worldview (as if that were possible)

February 5, 2011 by Randal

In the past I have had my great frustrations with John Loftus and his Outsider Test of Faith. Shall I count the reasons? For starters, it is arbitrarily imposed upon people who hold a set of claims that are “religious” as a means to test those claims when a more consistent application would present it as […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agnosticism, John Loftus, justification, outsider test of faith, rationality, worldview

“To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained.”

January 20, 2011 by Randal

Ray Ingles provided this quote from “The Doctor” in my post  “On Taking an Objective Approach to Inexplicable Events“. This is an interesting claim. It first begs interpretation. I take there to be the following two basic possibilities: (1) The rational person believes that every object, event or state of affairs has some explanation for why it […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Colin McGinn, epistemology, evidence, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, John Jefferson Davis, rationality, reason

For since the creation of the world: On the wickedness of atheism

January 13, 2011 by Randal

PM asked with disarming directness: “Hi Dr. Rauser, “Wondering how you’d situate Romans 1:18-32 into this discussion? Thanks.” The problem at first blush Let’s put the most relevant excerpt of this passage before us:  18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, general revelation, natural theology, rationality, Romans 1, sin, theism

Is “biblical Christianity” the only rational worldview? (And is atheism wicked?)

January 11, 2011 by Randal

Yesterday David Parker provided us with a link to “triablogue“. Once there I read this: “While atheism is wicked, I truly appreciated Azrienoch’s logical rigor and consistency. His analysis only confirms what I’ve been saying for years, which goes something like this: If you are logically consistent and want to have a worldview that can […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, biblical worldview, Christianity, rationality, reason

Doing your belief inventory (or how not to be a fundamentalist)

December 4, 2010 by Randal

John has recently commened the following advice in the blog when it comes to belief: “You can (and should) give weights to your beliefs. If you only have 20% justification, then evidence that approaches 20% should be sufficient to force you to at least reexamine your belief. In fact, if you’re using a belief with […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, evidentialism, fundamentalism, John Locke, rationality

Extraordinary cars require extraordinary acceleration

October 27, 2010 by Randal

Silverbullet sternly informs me: “We ask that you support extraordinary claims with extraordinary evidence.” This claim is so familiar, indeed, well-worn, that it is like putting on a pair of old 501 jeans. The only problem is … it doesn’t fit very well. And why is that? What’s wrong with this delicate and eminently reasonable demand for […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, epistemology, evidentialism, justification, naturalism, rationality, skepticism

When atheists grow up and become naturalists

October 25, 2010 by Randal

A number of my readers are atheists, but only one is anatheist.net, and that’s James Tracy. In “What John Loftus has is a failure to communicate” James and I continued with the old faith as a starting point of thinking theme (my theme, to be more specific). When James refused to come out and affirm any form […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: anatheist.net, atheism, epistemology, faith, James Tracy, naturalism, rationality, theism

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