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A forum for discussing matters of moment, from a curmudgeonly perspective. (The ideas posted here do not necessarily represent those of any organization with which I am a part). Rude and insulting remarks will not be published, but civil disagreement is welcome.
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About Me
- Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.
- I am a Christian, philosopher, teacher. My most recent of my twenty books is Beyond the Wager. My magnum opus is Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2011). I have published ten others, including Truth Decay and On Jesus.
3 comments:
PR 501-EV Defending Christian Faith class?
Give Dr. Nunley the same advice as I gave before on the texts for this class. It was my personal experience when I took Apologetics and Philosophy of Religion classes in three different college/seminaries that no atheist or skeptical book was ever required reading. That was my experience. A real education demands exposing your students to the best arguments and then responding to those very arguments, wouldn't you agree?
A student of yours attended my talk at the EPS this past weekend. He argued I had provided no method for skepticism. Tell him that skepticism needs no method. The skeptic merely doubts and says, "show me."
Cheers.
John:
I used "God: A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist" last time I taught apologetics. Sinnott-Armstrong is a credible atheist philosopher, but I think Bill Craig wins the debate. I have also had students read Russell's famous essay, "Why I am Not a Christian." I cannot believe that your training with Bill Craig did not include dealing with the strongest arguments on the other side.
John,
I didn't ask you to provide a method for skepticism. This is more a mental disposition than a methodology. But I did ask you to explain what kind of evidence could potentially satisfy the skeptic. And you seemed unwilling to provide any details.
I suspect this is because once these principles are made clear, they will be found to rest on rather shaky epistemological grounds. So it's more convenient to just demand evidence, and leave these matters ambiguous.
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