William Lane Craig would like you to believe that Biblical scholarship is made up of people who accept that all the major details of the Biblical story of Jesus’ resurrection are facts, who accept that there is no good non-miraculous explanation for those facts, and if they reject the resurrection do so only out of [...]
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Biblical scholars are not a bunch of baffled skeptics (also: Craig lies about Ehrman)
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 10, 2011
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How William Lane Craig misleads his followers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on June 3, 2011
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Ever since going to the Harris-Craig debate, Craig has been on my mind an awful lot. There’s one thing I’ve alluded to here and here, and meant to do a post on, but kept putting off: the fact that Craig works very hard to give his followers a false impression of the facts on key [...]
Common atheist misconceptions?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 26, 2011
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It amazes me how some misconceptions about things like evolution, Biblical scholarship, and so on persist among Christians in spite of repeated debunkings. Part of the problem is that while many Evangelical leaders know better, few try to enlighten their flock and some will even throw a fit when someone like Bart Ehrman starts explaining [...]
The state of biblical scholarship, philosophy, and atheism
Posted by Chris Hallquist on April 18, 2011
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A comment signed Deisticially asks about a whole bunch of things I haven’t written about recently (if ever), so I’m using this as an excuse. Comment edited for spelling: Firstly- why do atheists claim that the majority of biblical scholars believe that Jesus was an endtime prophet? To my knowledge (and according to Wikipedia), the [...]
Dawkins, Aquinas, and Feser
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 10, 2011
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A reader writers: In a blog post a while ago you mentioned you might give your thoughts on Dawkins’ take on Aquinas’ five ways. I’m currently trying to write something which includes Dawkins’ coverage of natural theology, and how far he’s given acceptable responses to theistic arguments. If you did have time to cover what [...]