Apologetics to the Glory of God

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Sye TenBruggencate vs. Justin Scheiber: Complete Transcript and Informal "Debate" Recording

Sye TenBruggencate of www.proofthatgodexists.org claims that his recent discussion/informal “debate” with Justin Scheiber of www.yahweh-or-myweh.blogspot.com was heavily edited with Justin’s long pauses taken out as well to make it seem as though he answered faster. Sye contends that it was not just “rabbit trails” that were taken out, but that the whole feel of certain parts of the debate was changed. Sye claims that he is a little surprised that Justin did this and trusts that others will find that the edits were extremely biased as well.

Sye believes it is clear from the edits that Justin was just trying …

July 21, 2011
Praxis Presup: Episode 7

Chris continues to review the recent exchange between Sye TenBruggencate and Justin Schieber.…

July 21, 2011
Jamin Hubner on Sye T. vs. Justin S.

Jamin Hubner has commented on the Sye TenBruggencate vs. Justin Scheiber “debate” here.

I am currently reviewing this debate on Praxis Presup starting with Episode 6.…

July 21, 2011
Ben Wallis and Paul Baird Withdraw Debate Challenges

Readers will remember that I accepted a call for debate opponents from agnostic Ben Wallis here. He has since taken down the post that included the challenge and let me know that some things came up on his end that would prevent any formal debate right now. At the same time, he has suggested another debate opponent for me, and we are attempting to work something out.

Recall also that atheist Paul Baird openly challenged such noteworthy apologists as K. Scott Oliphint, Doug Wilson, and James White to debate. That challenge extended as well to Jamin Hubner, Dustin Seegars, …

July 21, 2011
An Acceptance of Paul Baird's Debate Challenge

On April 29, 2011 I linked to Sye TenBruggencate’s debates which I had not, at the time, listened to.

Paul Baird responded:

Transcript of the Second Debate that I had with Sye Tenbruggebcate is here – http://patientandpersistent.blogspot.com/2011/03/second-debate-transcript-work-in.html

One review is here – http://deeperwaters.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/presuppositional-apologetics-on-unbelievable/

Strangely all of Syes previous supporters appear to have vanished and none have offered any congratulations on his performance.

Maybe you guys have offered support.

In response to this comment I wrote:

Thank you for the links.

As I mentioned in the post, I have not gotten around to listening to these exchanges yet. Perhaps after I
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June 24, 2011
Consistency: It Burns!

An atheist links to one of our intro posts, with the title; “The Stupid! It Burns! (covenantal edition)”. He quotes one section, and makes only a single comment.

Lots more stupid in the original article.

From a few posts prior, he says:

…embeds a couple of paragraphs of argument in a dozen paragraphs consisting of ***ing and moaning that no one likes him, and gratuitous insults directed at the New Atheists: …

He finally does mention an argument:

So, isn’t that nice. The obvious consistency issue concerning the “gratuitous” insults complained about and then promptly offered himself is …

May 17, 2011
The Gravitas of Gravity

In response to a particular podcast in a “counter-apologetics” series now offered by Ben Wallis a commenter asks:

Why should we believe that we will experience the force of gravity on earth a second from now? I have not listened to the entire podcast on causality, but I have not heard this very simple question answered there in what I have listened to thus far. Thanks.

This seems like an easy enough question to answer, but Ben dodges in his lengthy response:

You asked a good question, “why should we believe that we will experience the force of gravity on
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May 2, 2011
Sye TenBrugencatte Debate

Yesterday I ran into Sye TenBrugencatte of www.proofthatgodexists.org and was reminded that I still have not quite gotten around to listening to his debate yet, but you can beat me to it here. He also has some interviews and videos at the bottom of that page.…

April 29, 2011
Atheist Thrasymachus Admits He's Unreasonable

Thrasymachus is a contributor to Urban Philosophy known for writing lengthy diatribes concerning his hatred for Christ. His posts generally take a shotgun approach and are so full of bad rhetoric that they discourage even the most Mother’s-basement-confined-E-pologist from taking the time to respond. Still, there are certainly problems to be found in his posts.

Just this morning I began reading a new post from Thrasymachus with the (grammatically incorrect) title “Why Apologetics Sucks.” In the Abstract for the post Thrasymachus states that, “Reasonable people should not take Apologists seriously.” He then proceeds to seriously evaluate apologetics as a …

April 27, 2011
ZaoThanatoo Answers the Argument from Horrific Suffering 2 (Guest Post)

The Argument from Horrific Suffering for the Non-Existence of God

The Argument from Horrific Suffering for the Non-Existence of God (Mitch) / Answering the Argument from Horrific Suffering (Chris) / Bolt and Horrific Suffering (Mitch) / Answering the Argument from Horrific Suffering 2 (Chris) / Bolt and Horrific Suffering II (Mitch) / Answering the Argument from Horrific Suffering 3 (Chris) / Bolt and Horrific Suffering III (Mitch) / Answering the Argument from Horrific Suffering 4 (Chris) / ZaoThanatoo Answers (ZaoThanatoo) / Bolt and Horrific Suffering IV (Mitch)

I will provide a brief rebuttal to Mitch’s response and grant him the …

January 25, 2011