I’m not a huge Michael Ruse fan. Scratch that, I’m not any kind of Michael Ruse fan. However, after seeing a friend criticize this for supposedly being consistent about moral realism/anti-realism, I’m starting to wonder if Ruse has a point about morality. This is because there are several different questions we could be talking about [...]
Category Archives: William Lane Craig
Biblical scholarship is an enterprise for believers
Posted by Chris Hallquist on December 2, 2011
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A remarkable quotation form an article by Biblical scholar Jacques Berlinerblau: “Show of hands: Who here’s an atheist?” If a keynote speaker were to pose that unlikely query to an audience of 1,000 scholars gathered at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature my guess is only about a couple of dozen or [...]
The Mike Licona kerfluffle, and what it tells us about Evangelicals and inerrancy.
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 15, 2011
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Okay, so there’s been a kerfluffle over Evangelical apologist Mike Licona and Biblical inerrancy, in which Licona ended up losing both his job as a professor at an Evangelical seminary and his job with the North American Mission Board. I hate to be seen as benefiting from someone else’s misfortune, but as a matter of [...]
William Lane Craig tries to equivocate, ends up just plain lying
Posted by Chris Hallquist on November 11, 2011
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One of the many entertaining historical episodes we owe to religion is the story of the doctrine of equivocation or mental reservation. St. Augustine, one of the most influential Christian theologians ever, took the view that lying is always always wrong, and this view was ended up being adopted by the Catholic Church as a [...]