Tag: agnosticism
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Another Round With Paul Baird: Stating and Defending the Requested Rebuttal (6)
History
https://choosinghats.org/2011/09/an-argument-for-paul-baird/
https://choosinghats.org/2011/09/helping-paul-baird-recognize-an-argument/
Introduction
…Paul Baird said…
You have to remember that this didn’t used to be a hypothetical for me. I was a card carrying North European Solitary Pagan at one time, and there was some revelatory basis to my worldview so I’m not playing some devils advocate game with CBC here.
That said, the purpose of using the Pagan worldview is that, arguably, and leaving aside characters like Aleister Crowley, it is an indigenous faith of these islands, alongside Druidism and many others. That is to say it predates Christianity and shares none
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Another Round With Paul Baird: Stating and Defending the Requested Rebuttal (5)
History
https://choosinghats.org/2011/09/an-argument-for-paul-baird/
https://choosinghats.org/2011/09/helping-paul-baird-recognize-an-argument/
Paul’s Problems
The conclusion to my previous post in this series was that Paul offers no new objection to my pointing out that he provides no support for PR, no new objection to APR, no objection to my answer concerning alleged competing transcendentals, and no acceptance or rejection of my debate proposal.
Paul’s Response
In his latest comments Paul references the Choosing Hats Twitter account and a number of posts pertaining to FSC’s (Fristianity Style Counters). Neither of these has anything to do with the line of argumentation I have followed …
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Sye TenBruggencate and Eric Hovind on "Fundamentally Flawed"
I am about to go cycle and I will be listening to this:
http://www.fundamentally-flawed.com/pods/?p=episode&name=2011-09-30_episode_13.mp3
Enjoy, and thanks Sye!…
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"The Chris Bolt Comedy Hour"
Paul Baird had the idea of turning my recent interactions with fundamentalist atheists into the Chris Bolt Comedy Hour. I do not know how much I will get in royalties, but given the popularity of movies like Napoleon Dynamite even a small percentage will do.
Paul introduces the first act, featuring a fundamentalist atheist who repeatedly insists, “I know nothing.” (Audience laughter.) He claims that he does not know whether or not a book by Darwin exists, and admits that he does not even know whether or not I exist, but wants to talk to me about the book …
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Another Round With Paul Baird: Stating and Defending the Requested Rebuttal (4)
Introduction
Fundamentalist atheist Paul Baird asked me to rebut the following proposition PR:
PR – “I have had a revelation from a non-Christian supernatural transcendental entity that I use to ground my worldview.”
First, Paul is merely claiming that PR provides “grounding and certainty.” But how does it do that? Paul refuses to tell us, and so PR fails to constitute any sort of counter to presuppositional apologetics. It is a mere assertion.
Second, argument APR refutes PR as follows:
If atheism is true, then PR is false.
Atheism is true.
Therefore, PR is false.
The argument form is …
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The "Humble Suggestion" of Ben Wallis
…Ben Wallis said…
Paul,
If I may make a humble suggestion…
I know how tempting it can be to respond to Chris’s nonsense, but at some point I think you just have to let him have the last word and trust that your readers are intelligent enough to see through to the ridiculousness of it all. I don’t see what point there is in further communicating with him. He’s obviously not interested in having an intellectually fruitful discussion, practically by his own admission. He doesn’t believe one is possible, because he thinks that you’re a bumbling fool. (Don’t feel
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"Fossils Are Real" – A Fundamentalist Atheist Shuns Knowledge
dios mio: i as just listening to WLC versus keith parsons debate keith parsons blasphemed on the mic several times heh i bet the the audience cringed WLC will debate this blonde english guy.. something Law in a few weeks, i am looking forward to that
Chris: Yes for some reason atheists like to say offensive things as though it helps their case.
dios mio:heh yeah keith parsons was furious…
Chris: And others are afraid to capitalize “God”. i.e. Paul Baird. (Stephen Law btw.)
dios mio:wow.. i cannot imagine myself debating a muslim guy in such an event, and be …
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Another Round With Paul Baird: Stating and Defending the Requested Rebuttal (2)
See Another Round With Paul Baird: Stating and Defending the Requested Rebuttal and Paul’s exceedingly weak reply.
Apparently Paul Baird did not like my post which recounted Paul’s decision to leave the blogosphere (we see how long that lasted) and tries to cast it in the same light as his fundamentalist atheist rhetoric (“banter”) when in actuality that post was addressing Paul Jenkins’ insubstantial rhetoric about my podcasts. Paul boasts that he is going to print out our exchange and show it to his pagan friends. He predicts that they will agree with him about it. Pagans agreeing with …
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Another Round With Paul Baird: Stating and Defending the Requested Rebuttal
Introduction
Recently on the Praxis Presup podcast I have been reviewing an exchange that took place between the three Pauls of the Skepticule podcast and Sye TenBruggencate with Eric Hovind.
Paul Jenkins mentioned the review on his blog, and I responded:
https://choosinghats.org/2011/09/fundamentalist-atheism-why-bother/
https://choosinghats.org/2011/09/paul-jenkins-and-damage-control/
By this point Paul Baird had already written on his blog that he was leaving until the New Year.
…I’m also going back to doing what the vast majority of people do with regards to the Christian faith – get on with my life as though it isn’t there and doesn’t matter.
It reminds me of
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Helping Paul Baird Recognize An Argument
Paul Baird has taken a third break from his hiatus at his blog to respond to a post I wrote here.
Recall that Paul proposed the following (PR):
I have had a revelation from a non-Christian supernatural transcendental entity that I use to ground my worldview.
He wanted me to, “Disprove that revelational epistemology, preferably in less than 1,000,000 words.” I offered the following argument:
PR states: “I have had a revelation from a non-Christian supernatural transcendental entity that I use to ground my worldview.”
If atheism is true, then PR is false.
Atheism is true.
Therefore, …