It is often asserted by the New Atheists that there is no evidence for the existence of a god, much less the god of Christianity. One reason for this is that the presuppositions derived from their metaphysics (subconsciously) do not allow them to consider the possibility of anything non-material. This leads them to hold to an epistemology, or method for ...
After my last pretty heavy-hitting post, this one should be a bit easier to follow. Identifying a fallacy requires some subtlety, but can become second-nature after some practice. That being said, one of the real pitfalls of catching fallacies is that one can obsess over them, seeming to find them everywhere. This is often due to misusing ...
In preparation for a series of posts on Thomas Aquinas and his Five Ways of knowing God, we thought it would be helpful to write something explaining what metaphysics is. Though this post may seem somewhat dry and abstract, it is a critical first step toward the understanding of much more interesting subjects to come. We encourage the reader to take a deep breath, watch this ridiculously ...
We thought it would be good to do a brief primer on logic before moving forward with any other posts. This will be a series consisting of two posts, the first dealing with some of the basics of argument and propositional logic, and the second with informal fallacies. Obviously, these two posts will hardly even scratch the surface of the field of logic, ...
Let's play a game. I'm going to throw out three names, and you tell me what they have in common: Aristotle John Calvin Thomas Hobbes ...
If you've stumbled upon this blog, welcome. It is run by two friends who met in their undergraduate days and – rather strangely – found out that they grew up within minutes of each other, several hundred miles away from their alma mater. We have been interested in defending the Christian faith for some time, as well as hearing out the objections to that faith. Both of us are engineers by training, ...
