Choosing Hats
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Wallis Debate Recap Continued: Induction
Mr. Wallis claims that, “we simply must use induction, because we have no other means of planning for action in the world.” An interesting claim to be sure, but it is not clear what Mr. Wallis means by this statement or how Mr. Wallis could know that it is true. He nevertheless concludes from this statement that, “no epistemic ‘problem’ of induction need cause us an abundance of concern.” Even more strange is that Wallis offers these statements as constituting an “objection” to the following argument that he quotes from me from our debate:
“Reasoning invalidly is not reasonable at …
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Comments on the Wallis Debate Recap: Agnosticism (Updated! Includes response from Wallis)
Introduction
Ben Wallis has written a post wherein he briefly points out what he believes are serious problems with “two key arguments” I offered during the course of our debate on the existence of God. There are a number of arguments I used for TAG in the debate and it is not my opinion that Mr. Wallis addressed them all either during the debate or in his brief review. That Mr. Wallis has written some of his thoughts concerning the debate and apparently wants to continue some discussion in the future (both of which are perfectly fine with me) allows …
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Coffee Bean Discipleship
Today as I was sitting at my local Starbucks, typing away on an essay, I began to take notice of two guys who had sat down behind me. It was somewhere in between the end of one album I was listening to and the beginning of another that I heard someone mention “the Word”. I paused my iPod and began to listen intently, feeling a bit guilty that I was both listening to someone else’s conversation, and doing so with headphones in my ears as if I was listening to music instead! What I heard, however, was encouraging.
It was …
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Interview With The Reformed Media Review
Jared Oliphint and Jonathan Brack at Reformed Forum recently interviewed me on The Reformed Media Review concerning Van Til’s presuppositionalism, my background, and the Choosing Hats website. Many thanks to Jared, Jonathan, and Reformed Forum for being so kind as to have me on.