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The Tentative Apologist's bleak blogativity put in the spotlight
July 21st, 201011:36 AM ETYes folks, it is true. The Tentative Apologist is human. And I've found that I've been trying to juggle too many balls during this month of July. Tragically the main casualty has been my blogativity. "What's blogativity?" It's a neologism I coined which refers to the degree to which a blog is regularly maintained. High or healthy blogativity... -
Apologetics in Whistler, BC
July 13th, 201011:19 AM ETFirst off, yes I am having a great vacation. Thanks for asking. (Or, if you didn't ask, at least thanks for caring. You do care, don't you?) Second, over the years I have marvelled at how the Super 8s of the world will give you free internet without a second thought while the Hiltons and Hyatts will gouge you at 10 bucks a day. That just makes no ... -
Apologetic Pigs, Answered Prayers, and other Miscellanies
July 10th, 201012:11 PM ETBefore I got sidetracked on my summer reading challenge I was discussing synchronicity and specifically the question "Does meticulously-tuned evil count as a defeater for meticulously-tuned good?" (That itself was a side track off of the review of The Christian Delusion.) While I need to get back to CD, it ain't gonna happen in the next week. You s... -
An Intelligent Design for increasing traffic at your blog
July 08th, 201002:08 PM ETI ventured into turbid waters a couple days ago by mentioning that in the future I would discuss Steve Meyer's Signature in the Cell in the blog. What followed was a barrage of discussion which led AnAtheist.Net to observe: "It looks like you have discovered a quick way to attract a fiery horde of new readers." Indeed. Actually I learned la... -
Hey calm down, it's just a book
July 07th, 201011:01 AM ETGeez, you throw these guys an olive branch -- I'll even read Robert Wright, but why don't you read Steve Meyer? -- and they have all sorts of excuses. AnAtheist.Net attempts to extent the bizarre argument that if scientists present their theoretical proposal in a long book that seeks to reach a broader readership, we ought not read it. Does publis... -
A summer reading challenge to my readers
July 06th, 201007:21 PM ETI'm presently on vacation and will be so for a month. Vacation is the time to write furiously (I am trying to complete the mauscript for The Post-Apocalyptic Apologist by the end of the month), blog furiously (or at least moderately) and read furiously (or thereabouts). I was in a used bookshop today and I picked up a mint copy of Robert Wright's ... -
Does meticulously-tuned evil count as a defeater for meticulously-tuned good?
July 06th, 201011:34 AM ETThere are two key issues I want to explore further in relation to the waving statute, St. Tom's Orphanage, and other cases of synchronicity. The topic of this thread is evil and other potential defeaters to positive events with putative high MDS. Let's begin with SilverBullet: "You've clearly spent some time thinking this over, so in the meantime... -
Divine Action and St. Tom's Starving Orphanage
July 04th, 201005:35 PM ETSadly, I don't find the responses to the last post on miraculous synchronous events really addressing the question at issue, that is, the question of whether (or rather, when) it is warranted to infer divine action based on the experience of synchronous events. So let me simplify matters with a case which will help us fine-tune the ground for... -
When 'skepticism' is the mark of a closed mind
July 03rd, 201002:04 PM ETThe waving statue conversation reminds me of the BC cartoon where BC looks up to the heavens and cries out: "Is anybody up there?" Immediately a marquee sign falls from the heavens and lands in front of him which says "I'm up here." Could BC reasonably conclude that this was an answer to prayer? It seems rather obvious to me that he could conclude... -
Assorted Replies to the Faith, Reason, and Believing the Bible is the Word of God Discussion
July 02nd, 201011:04 AM ETTentative Apologist: "I have just completed a two day jaunt in the mountains and am now deep in the wilds of southern British Columbia (the westernmost Canadian province). Hence, the radio silence for the last couple days. I offer here scattered replies to the discussion in The Tentative Apologist Reader on Faith and Reason. I will catch up with ot...
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