Here’s an interesting question a friend of mine posted to Facebook: If you could only choose five books to give to a high school drop-out to get them through the rest of their life, what books would they be and why?
From the archives: Biblical scholars are not a bunch of baffled skeptics (also: Craig lies about Ehrman)
March 7, 2012 By 9 Comments
Tired of me reposting all these posts on Craig from my old blog? Tough–other readers like them a lot. So without further ado: William Lane Craig would like you to believe that Biblical scholarship is made up of people who accept that all the major details of the Biblical story of Jesus’ resurrection are facts, [...]
Arguments we shouldn’t be having
March 6, 2012 By 9 Comments
So a few days ago Natalie Reed wrote this great post titled “God Does Not Love Trans People.” Then our friend Be Scofield posted a totally missing the point response. I’m going to start by quoting the paragraph from Natalie that Scofield quoted from, only quoting the entire thing rather than just part of it. [...]
From the archives: How William Lane Craig misleads his followers
February 26, 2012 By 7 Comments
Ever since going to the Harris-Craig debate, Craig has been on my mind an awful lot. There’s one thing I’ve alluded to here and here,and meant to do a post on, but kept putting off: the fact that Craig works very hard to give his followers a false impression of the facts on key issues. [...]
Most religious conservatives aren’t theocrats
February 15, 2012 By 10 Comments
Bill Vallicella thinks the Obama administration’s decision to require employer provided health insurance to include contraception is an example of how “The Left is totalitarian by its very nature.” That is, of course, completely insane. But when I read it, it made me pause and consider how liberals must sound to conservatives when they accuse [...]
Bayesian arguments: Swinburne, Collins, and the McGrews
February 10, 2012 By 27 Comments
In a previous thread, Caleb O wrote:
From the archives: More on Luke’s endorsement of William Lane Craig
February 7, 2012 By 17 Comments
From May of last year. Discusses what it means to “win” a debate, and points out a number of dumb tactics Craig uses in his debates. Note that at the time I wrote it, I wasn’t totally happy with the use of the word “endorsement” in the title, and I’m still not sure what word [...]
Diversity among religious believers
February 1, 2012 By 2 Comments
This is a topic that was going around the FTB backchannel, and now Ed and Natalie have written posts about it. Here’s my contribution:
From the archives: The state of biblical scholarship, philosophy, and atheism
January 31, 2012 By 3 Comments
This was originally written in April of last year. It’s a response to a long question that I had gotten in a blog comment. Note that even though the question included a lot of mistaken assumptions, it was still a very useful springboard for writing a post, in part because it gave me an idea [...]
Strange times: culture wars vs. cultural-demographic trends
January 27, 2012 By 5 Comments
We (I’m talking USians here) live in strange times. A post by Will Wilkinson on Newt Gingrich captures a lot of that strangeness:
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