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February 2019

February 13, 2019
The Bible is full of contradictions, anachronisms, and embarrassments. How do Christians respond? Let’s evaluate...
February 11, 2019
The Bible is full of contradictions, anachronisms, and embarrassments. How do Christians respond? Let’s evaluate...
February 09, 2019
The Bible is full of contradictions, anachronisms, and embarrassments. How do Christians respond? Let’s evaluate...
February 07, 2019
A little thing like lack of evidence won't stop Christian apologists from handwaving about why...
February 04, 2019
Progressive revelation was supposed to resolve some Bible contradictions, but it creates far more problems...
February 01, 2019
Christians have a trick up their sleeve when it comes to Bible contradictions. The story...

January 2019

January 28, 2019
I enjoy hanging out with Christians to understand better what supports their belief. Here’s an...
January 25, 2019
We come across claims all the time, some reasonable and some farfetched. An influential Enlightenment...
January 23, 2019
We’re halfway through our analysis of this obtuse argument. It’s a great example of an...
January 22, 2019
We’ve looked at Anselm’s ontological argument, where God is defined into existence. Another variant is...
January 19, 2019
Let's conclude our exploration of this new argument for Christianity. The Argument from Mathematics argues...
January 17, 2019
What about the claims Christians make about early church history, claims that don’t come from...
January 15, 2019
What about the claims Christians make about early church history, claims that don’t come from...
January 12, 2019
Here's a new argument for Christianity: math's ability to explain reality is so extraordinary that...
January 10, 2019
We’ve recently looked at the (literally) fragmentary early evidence for the New Testament. Seeing it...
January 08, 2019
Let’s look at the earliest handful of manuscripts that give us our most reliable look...
January 03, 2019
That God created everything from nothing is a key Christian doctrine. But where does it...

December 2018

December 31, 2018
A Christian blogger offers six suggestions to improve the rhetorical position of Christians arguing against...
December 27, 2018
A Christian blogger came up with an intriguing experiment to explore whether it makes sense...
December 20, 2018
Same-sex marriage seems established in America, but anti-gay arguments remain a siren song to many...
December 17, 2018
Are they miracles, or are they magic? Look at the supernatural appeals that Christianity approves...
December 13, 2018
“They’re miracles,” we’re told, “not magic.” But look at the supernatural appeals that Christianity approves...
December 11, 2018
Same-sex marriage seems inevitable in America, but anti-gay arguments remain a siren song to many...
December 07, 2018
Same-sex marriage seems inevitable in America, but anti-gay arguments remain a siren song to many...
December 05, 2018
It’s Christmas time! Here are a few Christmas-themed posts from the vault.
December 03, 2018
Sorry, John Chau—your death was not in the service of a great good. Read the...

November 2018

November 30, 2018
Let’s look skeptically at the Zeitgeist movie’s astrological take on Jesus and his role on...
November 28, 2018
The Zeitgeist movie’s astrological take on the star of Bethlehem and Jesus was interesting, but...
November 26, 2018
Remember the Zeitgeist movie? It caused a stir ten years ago. It has an interesting...
November 24, 2018
Same-sex marriage seems inevitable in America, but anti-gay arguments remain a siren song to many...
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