Post tagged with defeater

  • Can we rationally believe in an atonement we don’t understand?

    August 18th, 201103:02 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    Having surveyed Ken Pulliam's discussion of the PST, I have now been asked by Robert: "How do the other theories fare? I'm guessing they have problems too, since men like Luther and Calvin rejected them in favor of PST." First off, Luther actually is associated with the Christus Victor model rather than PST, though Calvin most definitely is an adv...

  • The Tentative Apologist's Christmas-in-August Variety Show

    August 25th, 201011:21 AM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    Andy Williams has just finished singing “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” “And now,” The Tentative Apologist grins, “the most wonderful time of the show.” As he reclines in front of the fireplace wearing a bright red sweater with reindeer TA pulls out the ever present full-to-overflowing mailbag: First up TA pulls out a mi...

  • The Bible and Metallica seeks to win over Susan Boyle fans (but not really)

    August 20th, 201001:04 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    So I was frying up a pan of bacon when some grease spilled and the stove-top caught fire. I doused it in a bucket of water and ran out the door because I was heading up to my friend's cabin for a couple days. I return last night and realize, much to my chagrin, that the whole kitchen is now alight. My bucket of water did little more than spread the...

  • The Tentative Apologist Reader on Faith and Reason

    June 28th, 201005:21 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
     Sorceror: "Rauser, please link to specific articles where you make the case for "the Bible is the Word of God" being 'properly basic' or the equivalent." Glad to oblige. Here are most of the relevant posts where I provide a particular moderate foundationalist theory of epistemology and then apply it to religious beliefs. I would r...

  • Is the Bible "merely" a product of its times?

    June 26th, 201012:14 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    Sometimes running a blog is like working on an assembly line stamping widgets. If you go for a bathroom break the line doesn't stop and the widgets pile up and then you never catch up. Unless your blog is your life, that invariably happens. I have a bunch of widgets (i.e. comments) piled up in my absence over the last 36 hours (a long bathroom bre...

  • On taking people seriously

    December 06th, 200910:04 AM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    In "Does God speak today? A Case Study" I recounted (or rather, reproduced) Kevin's story in which he reported receiving information from God about future events which later occurred as predicted. Conversational Atheist (henceforth "CA") then commented: "Are you seriously expecting anyone to take you seriously when you seriously propose that God ta...

  • "Would you accept the testimony of a crazy man?" and other thoughts

    October 05th, 200904:28 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    It has been a busy few days, but at last I have some time to return to the bevy of comments on our ongoing epistemology debates. Given the sake of space limits, I shall have to limit myself here to AnAtheist.Net's counter-claim (in the "nailing jelly to walls" thread) that we only accept the testimony of others when we have evidence for their ...

  • I could be wrong. Therefore, I can't be right?

    September 22nd, 200911:04 AM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    As the crowd applauded thunderously Randal walked out on stage smiling. "Great performance by our atheists tonight. We've definitely had some lively discussion. And rest assured there is more to come. But for the mid-week intermission I have invited beetle496 to come on stage and deliver his final parting jab from the last thread as some food ...

  • Am I a Christian due to historical accident?

    August 24th, 200908:43 PM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    The charge is a common one. You're a Christian because you were born and raised in North America. If you had been born in India you'd probably be a Hindu. If you had been born in a certain part of Africa, you'd probably be an animist. The conclusion is given by one of my readers, AnAtheist.Net, who charges: "You arbitrarily prefer a belief that is...

  • Yahweh vs. Zeus Part 3: The Battle Continues

    August 24th, 200912:35 AM ET
    By Randal Rauser
    It is a common complaint of atheists, humanists, agnostics, skeptics, and various other grumblers against theistic belief, that there is something arbitrary about such belief. ConverseAtheist has been hammering on this point for awhile now, focusing in particular on Zeus. That is, if I believe in the Christian God, why not believe in the Greek God ...
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