Tag: presup
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Paul Baird breaks his silence
Paul Baird felt it necessary to break his posting hiatus with his post, “For Chris Bolt,” which is written in response to my latest post, “Paul Jenkins and Damage Control.” According to Paul, he is “annoyed” that he must do so, not even getting past his second word before using the typical fundamentalist atheist rhetoric. The rhetoric continues with Paul’s description of my post as “paranoid delusion.” Of course, Paul does not actually explain how I exhibit paranoia in the post, or how it is delusional, or whether or not his description even makes sense in …
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Paul Jenkins and Damage Control
Paul Jenkins mentions in a recent post that some of his “readers may have endured what has become known as The Fourth Debate, in which the three Pauls of the Skepticule Extra podcast were subjected to the presuppositional apologetic argument of Eric Hovind and Sye Ten Bruggencate.” Note that Paul’s rhetoric begins when his post does with the use of “endured” as though there was something particularly unbearable about Eric and Sye’s performance in their discussion with the three Pauls when in fact the only thing that might be considered unbearable in that discussion was the ignorance, inconsistency, …
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Fundamentalist atheism – why bother?
Paul Jenkins has written a post here (you need to read this post to make sense of what follows) which, I take it, is supposed to be some sort of response to my “obsessive and tedious” commentary on one of his podcasts. Really it is an implied instruction to his fundamentalist atheist friends not to listen to the three Pauls failing miserably in their attempt to defend their foolish fundamentalist atheism. Paul’s post reminds me a bit of a cult leader’s plea to his followers not to listen to the satanic messages of the outside world. In any event Paul’s …
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Praxis Presup: Episode 16
Chris continues to review what happens when Sye TenBruggencate joins the discussion between Eric Hovind and the three Pauls of Skepticule Record.…
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Chris Hitchens, Doug Wilson, and the Argument From Evil
“It was like watching a bicycling Tour de Something rider, 50 yards ahead of the nearest competitor, anticipate the finish line by raising both hands above his head, at which point he triumphantly bites it.” – Doug Wilson
Check out Doug Wilson’s “Simply Incoherent” at The Gospel Coalition.
Also make sure to check out his new book The Rhetoric Companion which he was interviewed about here.…
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Brian Knapp Interviewed on "Goodness Over God" Podcast
Brian Knapp of Choosing Hats was a guest on the counter-apologetics podcast “Goodness Over God” with Michael Long and Ben Wallis to discuss several topics related to whether or not there is good reason to believe in God. You can find the interview here.…
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Sye TenBruggencate Challenges Atheist Illusionist Penn Jillette
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Debate: Is there good reason to believe that the Christian God exists?
Resolved: There is good reason to believe that the Christian God exists.
Moderator: Brian Knapp
Affirmative: Chris Bolt
Chris Bolt holds a B.A. Philosophy (High Honors) and B.A. Religion from Lynchburg College (Magna Cum Laude) as well as an M.Div. from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (School of Theology) where he is a Ph.D. candidate in Christian Philosophy. Bolt is the recipient of a number of awards for his work in philosophy and religion and a member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. He has participated in debates on the existence of God and on ethics and wrote a chapter of …
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A Reason for the Hope: Essays in Apologetics by Massimo Lorenzini
Some may know that my understanding of presuppositional apologetics initially came from Massimo Lorenzini through his website http://www.frontlinemin.org/. I am happy to announce that Massimo has written a new book that serves as an introduction to apologetics:
A Reason for the Hope: Essays in Apologetics by Massimo Lorenzini
You may purchase his new book here.
Thanks Massimo!…