Reasoning

Thursday, November 18th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | 2 Comments »

Christians have, for some time now, been accused of a lack of reason. Typically, the way things are portrayed, people like to make it seem as though faith and reason are opposites and therefore are incompatible.Sadly, even those within the Church are often convinced of this.  I've written before about this and still feel the same when it comes to the faith vs. reason argument. Not to worry, I'm not going to re-write that post again. ...

Trees

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics, Belief | Comments Off

For many non-believers out there, if you ever want to get them riled up when they ask you for why you believe God exists, just bring up trees. I've heard many non-believers get to the point that I start do wonder if they might pop a blood vessel when someone uses an argument for God because of trees. The standard argument from trees seems to be derived from two different arguments. One is the design argument, ...

Dice, Teapots and Spaghetti Monsters – Part II

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | Comments Off

Last week, I took a look at an example used by non-believers to show how ridiculous it is to believe in the God of the Bible. The example used jars of dice, one set of which were "invisible" and "transcendent." I showed several reasons why this analogy was a very poor argument against God, but you can read that for yourself. This week, we'll take a look at the other two analogies I've heard about often. ...

Dice, Teapots and Spaghetti Monsters

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | Comments Off

If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone argue against the existence of God using some crackpot analogy, I wouldn't need to write blogs any more. While I'm sure there are dozens more out there, there are three that I've heard repeatedly from various sources. Many of the attributes (and problems) with these analogies are consistent among the lot, though some may have some more unique issues. One such analogy was presented during ...

God of the Gaps

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | Comments Off

You've probably heard the term "God of the Gaps" before. If not, another phrase used for this concept is the "argument from ignorance." This is basically an anti-theist argument which tries to make theists look like wishful thinkers. The main premise is that the anti-theist claims that believers will give the credit to God for anything that they can't think of a natural explanation for. Essentially, they like to make it look like we just throw ...