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“Dr Funkenstein” has decided to reply:http://badapplesblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/response-to-steve-from-triablogue.html“Obviously I'm not familiar with every pro (or anti-) theistic argument ever made, so if Steve had pointed me in the direction of some links or given me a brief outline I would happily have read them.”Here’s your reading assignment for today:http://christiancadre.org/topics/cosarg.html“Contrary to what he suggested I did in fact read the psychology journal he posted - possession is not recognised as a ...

Before plunging into the latest round of controversy, I’d like to make a general observation. The psychology of the militant atheist is very odd. You’d think from his vehemence that a militant atheist had a personal stake in the outcome.Yet a militant atheist is like a volunteer at Auschwitz. He volunteers to build the death camp. Volunteers to string the barbed wire. Volunteers to patrol the fence. Volunteers ...

Over at Alan’s fine blog, I’ve been debating on and off with a Darwinian. Here, for what it’s worth, is my side of the exchange:steve said...rintintin said...“Maybe the supernatural effector wouldn't even need to be a deity, since we don't actually know anything about the possibilities that exist in the supernatural world.”You’ve obviously not done any reading in theistic modal metaphysics.“It's interesting what you are willing to attribute ...

John Loftus and Gerry Matatics are both men on a mission. Two middle-aged men in a hurry. Loftus is an apostate pastor turned militant atheist while Matatics is an apostate pastor turned sedevacantist. Both men are out to save the world—and the clock is ticking.One wonders if they were separated at birth. In some ways they’re the mirror image of each other. Loftus is trying to save humanity ...

john w. loftus said...“But it's precisely because of people like you, Steve, and Paul Manata, and JP Holding, and Frank Walton, that I am so motivated to destroy the delusional faith you have (even if Holding isn't a Calvinist). 30 years from now there will be many people who will have rejected the Christian faith from reading my book, and it will partially be your fault since neither ...

john w. loftus said...“Why is it that when trying to have a discussion of the ideas that separate us that the Calvinist doesn't even try to deal with my arguments and instead offers a bunch of red herrings?”Arguments? What arguments? This was your “argument”:"Oh, and just to get in a dig, Calvinism is morally bankrupt."You call that an argument? That’s your idea of an argument?Why do you even ...

“But to affirm the Bible as the inerrant word of God, as one extreme, is so far removed from a reasonable faith that it just seems incredible for me that any thinking person can believe it.”http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2008/05/whos-ignorant.htmlUnfortunately for Loftus, this accusation is self-incriminating. For Loftus is an apostate. He used to believe it. He used to be an ordained minister in a denomination which affirms inerrancy. He likes to ...

“I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.”—John Stuart Mill“Is it necessary that Heaven should borrow its light from the glare of Hell? Infinite punishment is infinite cruelty, endless injustice, immortal meanness. To worship an ...

Prof. Douglas Groothuis has written a good summary review of the film Expelled.His piece "Intelligent Design and the State University: Accepting the Challenge" is worth reading as well.

My family and I just went to our local theater and viewed Ben Stein's documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. This documentary has already created no small stir on the internet as the pre-release controversy generated by it held the number one spot in the blogosphere all day on March 24 per Nielson's BlogPulse, and also received over 800 Technorati results. With it's release in 1,000 ...