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March 15, 2013
10 Reasons the Crucifixion Story Makes No Sense
The crucifixion story? Not that big a deal. Here are 10 reasons why it makes...
March 13, 2013
Why Does the Bible Have No Recipe for Soap?
Soap wasn’t known to the ancients, but it’s not hard to make. Why no recipe...
March 11, 2013
A Debt to Christianity?
A popular article argues that all of us—atheists, too—owe a great debt to Christianity. It...
March 08, 2013
Lee Strobel’s Fragile Argument
Lee Strobel imagines that he takes a tough journalistic attitude to the Christian message and...
March 06, 2013
Separating Fact From Fiction: How Does Christianity Fare?
Imagine throwing your Net of Truth into the water. You want to pull up truth...
March 04, 2013
What Would a Religious Constitution Look Like?
The U.S. Constitution is secular, which provides protection to both atheists and believers, but this...
March 01, 2013
The U.S. Constitution is 100 Percent Secular—or Is It?
Christians are eager to imagine the founding fathers building the nation’s foundation on a Christian...
February 2013
February 27, 2013
Religion and Sports: Just Cultural Traits?
Religion and sports both have important dates throughout the calendar. They both have sacred designs...
February 25, 2013
Don’t Believe Christianity Until You Believe in Aliens
The Christian accepts the claims of the gospels. Contrast this with another claim: that aliens...
February 22, 2013
Thoughtless Thinking About Homosexuality
An online Christian ministry has a flabby argument against homosexuality and same-sex marriage that needs...
February 20, 2013
Response To an Angry Christian (2 of 2)
Let’s wrap up our analysis of a Catholic blogger’s rant against atheism. He gives us...
February 18, 2013
Response To an Angry Christian
A Catholic blogger claims to have distilled atheists’ arguments down to just two. And he’s...
February 15, 2013
Principle of Analogy
Some events are common in our everyday lives. When we see one of these, we...
February 13, 2013
Polytheism in the Bible
Have you come across enigmatic verses where God seems to be one of many? The...
February 11, 2013
Atheists: What Would It Take to Change Your Mind?
Listen up, atheists! What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. We’ve asked...
February 09, 2013
Christianity is Self-Defeating
The book of Exodus gives God’s demand that the Jews stick with their own kind...
February 07, 2013
Christians: What Would It Take to Change Your Mind?
How resilient is Christianity to contrary evidence? Does it blunder on in spite of clear...
February 05, 2013
Christianity, the Ultimate Unfalsifiable Hypothesis
A hypothesis should be testable, including “God exists.” How honestly do Christians follow the evidence?...
February 01, 2013
The Religious Foundation of Groundhog Day
Groundhog Day (February 2) is a day when we can celebrate some old wives’ tale...
January 2013
January 30, 2013
It’s a Pro-Slavery Free-For-All!
That God allows slavery in the Old Testament is one of the stickier issues Christian...
January 28, 2013
A Deist Argument Is Inadequate
Consider some of the popular science-y Christian apologetics: the Cosmological, Teleological, and Design Arguments, for...
January 26, 2013
God’s Kryptonite
If anything is unchanging, God should be. But our picture of God (all powerful, omniscient,...
January 24, 2013
Pushback on Abortion
My post in honor of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade has gotten a...
January 22, 2013
A Defense of Abortion Rights: The Spectrum Argument
“Abortion means the death of a baby!” That’s true only if you say that a...
January 21, 2013
Argument from Design Busted!
DNA is marvelously complicated, but mere complexity can make us miss the real issues. When...
January 18, 2013
The Perplexing Monty Hall Problem and How It Undercuts Christianity
One of the three doors has a car behind it. You pick one, and the...
January 16, 2013
Design Hypothesis: DNA and Dysteleology
Teleology says that life shows the hand of a designer; dysteleology says the reverse. Four...
January 14, 2013
How Likely the Jesus Miracle Stories?
How can probability be used to help clarify the God question? A quick (and easy)...
January 11, 2013
The Cross Examined Podcast!
I’m now podcasting this blog. If you prefer to listen to a podcast so you...
January 09, 2013
Rationalizing Away the “Canaanite Problem” (2 of 2)
Let’s conclude our look at Greg Koukl’s analysis of the Problem of Evil. We’re on...
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