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December 2015

December 12, 2015
It’s Christmas time! Here are a few Christmas-themed posts from the vault.
December 09, 2015
A Christmas movie shows that Christian apologists’ gnashing of teeth is empty blather.
December 07, 2015
A hypothesis should be testable, especially one as important as “God exists.” How honestly do...
December 05, 2015
Thought-provoking gifts for the holiday season.
December 04, 2015
Take a look at radical pro-life thinking in an article that condemns the shooting but...
December 02, 2015
We’ll conclude our look at Bible verses that make declarations about science so embarrassing that...

November 2015

November 30, 2015
We’ve looked at weak Christian claims that the Bible preceded science. Now, let’s look at...
November 27, 2015
Consider some of the popular science-y Christian apologetics: the Cosmological, Teleological, and Design Arguments, for...
November 25, 2015
Modern science? It’s been in the Bible all along, and we just didn’t have the...
November 23, 2015
Christian apologists eagerly point out the many places where the Bible gives us new science...
November 19, 2015
If anything is unchanging, God should be. But our picture of God (all powerful, omniscient,...
November 17, 2015
Christians, do us and Christendom a favor and avoid these arguments (part 11).
November 16, 2015
Change is inevitable, and we have a new commenting system that should make life difficult...
November 14, 2015
A blogger has responded to my spectrum argument about abortion. Here's my response.
November 12, 2015
Well of course Christians are imperfect—everyone’s imperfect! That’s why the Church is like a hospital....
November 10, 2015
Let’s give Christianity a break for a moment and look at a typically liberal attitude...
November 06, 2015
DNA is marvelously complicated, but mere complexity can make us miss the real issues. When...
November 04, 2015
A Christian apologist argues that justice shows the validity of Christianity. There is no ultimate...
November 02, 2015
Teleology says that life shows the hand of a designer; dysteleology says the reverse. Four...

October 2015

October 29, 2015
A local football coach has been violating church-state separation laws by praying with his team...
October 28, 2015
The first premise to William Lane Craig’s Kalam argument didn’t fare so well last time....
October 26, 2015
The venerable Cosmological Argument has many variations, and the Kalam version is the most popular....
October 23, 2015
How can probability be used to clarify the God question? A quick (and easy) summary...
October 21, 2015
Imagine the farewell speech from a politician dropping out of politics where all the impolitic...
October 19, 2015
Let’s conclude our look at Greg Koukl’s analysis of the Problem of Evil, as applied...
October 15, 2015
A popular evangelical Christian wrestles with the Problem of Evil. He’s confident that he’s got...
October 13, 2015
Christian apologists sometimes argue for objective moral wrong by pointing to the Holocaust as an...
October 09, 2015
I argue that we are obliged to accept the consensus in a scientific field of...
October 07, 2015
Is a scientific consensus inconvenient? Then just handwave a reason to reject it! Though this...
October 05, 2015
Imagine a gunman in a college classroom. One by one, he goes through the students,...
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