Philochristos

A place for me to say what I think and see what you think.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

ad hominem, no true Scotsman, and arguments from authority

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I just thought I'd write a quick note on the ad hominem and no true Scotsman fallacies, because I've noticed a lot of people being c...
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Bart Ehrman and Richard Carrier

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With those two names in the subject line, I'm bound to get a huge boost in readers in a short amount of time.  I don't have much to ...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Affirming the consequent and predictive value

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In the hard sciences, the ability of a theory to make accurate predictions is taken to count in favour of that theory.  Let's use gravit...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Historical Jesus and evolution; mythicism and intelligent design

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I just finished reading Did Jesus Exist by Bart Ehrman yesterday. There is an interesting parallel between the intelligent design vs. evol...
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Thursday, February 02, 2012

If there is no God, then there are no objective moral values

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I tried to find some really old posts I made on beliefnet back in the day, and I found this thread: " The use of reason in religion ...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

Mormonism: What would Pascal say?

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This is not an argument against Mormonism. It's just an observation I thought was interesting. Pascal argued that in a situation where ...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Conversation With a Mormon Missionary

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I just went to mormon.org where you can chat live with a Mormon missionary, and I had the most interesting conversation with a nice girl na...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The Westminster Confession and double predestination

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I am sometimes surprised by how many Calvinists will affirm the Westminster Confession while denying double predestination. Double predesti...
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I am Sam, I am, and I do not like green eggs and ham. And it doesn't matter whether the eggs are green, the ham is green, or they're both green.
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