This Saturday’s Unbelievable with Justin Brierley features a debate between Peter Boghossian, Ed.D., and Timothy McGrew, Ph.D., on Boghossian’s, Manual for Creating Atheists. It’s a radio show airing at 2:30 pm in England, and available live online everywhere else, from the link above. For North Americans, if I’ve got my time zones right it’s playing […]
Tag: Faith
“Peter Boghossian’s Manual for Wasting Paper (Part 3): Deepities”
Randal Rauser on Peter Boghossian Chapter 2 of A Manual for Creating Atheists addresses the topic of “Faith”. In this installment I’m going to camp on pages 21-22 as I analyze Boghossian’s use of the concept of “deepity” and his list of alleged paradigm instances of deepitiness as regards faith. I’m camping on this brief […]
Evidence for God: Humanness and the Interaction Problem
Part of the extended series Evidence for the Faith Ah, the interaction problem finally appears on the stage. I was expecting it to arise in the course of my discussions about humanness and evidence for the faith. I had decided not to include it until someone brought it up. The question is: if the physical […]
Faith, Reason, and Regeneration
One more thing needs to be said by way of understanding faith and reason. I alluded to this briefly in a late edit to yesterday’s blog post, but I need to expand upon it. Here’s a somewhat more complete statement: Faith in God is entirely rational, but rationality will not cause faith in God. Faith […]
Okay, You’re Right: There’s No Evidence For Faith …
Part of the extended series Evidence for the Faith I thought I was about to launch into a series on evidence for the Christian faith. Recent discussion here tells me there’s one more preliminary step to take first, however. I haven’t yet defined just what it is I’m about to provide evidence for. You see, […]
What If There Might Be Evidence For Faith?
TFBW’s assessment of the Boghossifying project in my earlier post seems accurate. If Boghossian is correct, Abe cannot have veridical evidence for his faith. So let’s parse this out a little further: IF Abe has faith, and IF Boghossian’s substitutions are accurate, THEN we know Abe has no (veridical) evidence for his faith. We can […]
Fun With Boghossifying: Asking a Faith Question the Boghossian Way
Here’s a fun question to play with. Perhaps you know that Peter Boghossian calls on his followers to substitute out the word “faith” whenever they see it, and replace it with “pretending to know what you cannot know.” For example, “The righteous shall live by pretending to know what they cannot know.” Now, I don’t […]
Is Faith An Unreliable Epistemology?
Though he has yet to respond to mine, which came first in the sequence of our discussions, I’m going to devote some time now to James Lindsay’s “central question, ” which is whether the epistemology of faith is unreliable. The answer is no, because the question is wrong in its premises. I’ll have to apologize […]
The Great Demolition of Christian Faith, Per Boghossian
Happy New Year, James Lindsay. I want to take this opportunity to assess your review of my book on Boghossian, which he described as “genius;” a great “demolition of (Christian) faith.” What I want to do here is to see whether you’ve done as any good Boghossianite should do, and backed up your claims with […]
