Category: Authors
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Proof and Persuasion Confusion
I was pointed to a post by J. Warner Wallace where he seeks to give a distinction between evidence and proof. This is in itself something good to do because who has not heard people scream “SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE!” as though if they are shown enough evidence that it is proof [of something].
The following statement seems to provide the basis of Wallace’s apparent confusion between proof and persuasion. Wallace writes the following:
…While evidence is a matter of objective truth, proof is in the mind of the evaluator, and many of us resist the truth in spite
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Peripatetic 7
When we say that Covenantal Apologetics is Sola Scriptura in an apologetic context, what do we mean by that, and where do we find this in Scripture? Additionally, in summary form, we examine where in these texts we can see the various tenets of CA displayed for us.…
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Point of Contact – Relaunched!
Matthias McMahon, Justin McCurry and I discuss the comments of a Sean Holloway in the Association of Evangelical Apologists facebook group.…
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Please Welcome Matthias McMahon
Matthias has been with Choosing Hats for awhile now in a contributor role, but with the upcoming departure of Chris Bolt, he has been added to the prestigious list of “Site Administrators”.
OK, so maybe not all that prestigious.
Expect to see more of Matthias by way of posts and responses to comments in the coming days …
– BK…
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Peripatetic 6
A further response to Frank Turk, a discussion concerning a conversation in a FB group, and an update on future podcasting.…
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Peripatetic 5
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Peripatetic 4
What does it mean to “Push the Antithesis,” and to what does that apply, specifically?…
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On Sycophants
It often puzzles me when I see an accusation of sycophancy from unbelievers. It usually goes something like this; I have people who will tell me when I’m wrong, and you have all these people who don’t tell you when you’re wrong. That’s an interesting accusation, but often quite far from the truth. You see, and here I’m going to tell stories a little, even the contributors to CH have internal disagreements at times. Chris, BK and I have had many disagreements about a great number of things. We are a rather varied group, after all.
When I first started …
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Mr. White, Mr. Grey and Mr. Black VIII
It’s been quite a while since there’s been a post in this series, hasn’t it? I apologize for the delay! This post will continue the discussion we left off in the last post, and pick up on the same page.
…Of course, what Mr. Black is doing appears very reasonable to himself. “Surely,” he says, if questioned at all on the subject, “a rational man must have a systematic coherence in his experience. Therefore he cannot accept as true anything that is not in accord with the law of noncontradiction. So long as you leave your God in the realm
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When Contra Munda isn’t All About You
Back in the third century of the church, as I’m sure some of our readers are aware, there was a bishop named Athanasius – his tenacious defense of the doctrine of the Trinity, in opposition to the swiftly growing heresy of Arianism gave rise to the statement “Athanasius contra mundum” – Athanasius against the world. In a sense, this wasn’t quite true – there were other defenders of the Trinity around, but none so prolific, and none who were targeted nearly so heavily as Athanasius, who was ejected from his church five times, and was only vindicated after his death. …