This is in response to a video on Twitter which laughably claims that William Laine Craig humiliated Christopher Hitchens in a debate. SJ Thomason @Lead1225 Christopher Hitchens tries to debate William Lane Craig, INSTANTLY REGRETS it… youtu.be/jPlbrdxKTCk via @YouTube William Laine Craig is a practiced debater of some skill, but because he is in theContinue reading “The Willful Dishonesty of William Laine Craig and the Silliness of his Followers”
Category Archives: Philosophy
The Metaphor of Genetic Code
PREFACE This is in response to a Twitter debate about DNA being proof of god’s existence. SJ Thompson was unable to respond, so she called in an apologist, Sy Garte, who claims a background in biochemistry. Unfortunately, he backed away from debating the issue. Instead he gave an astoundingly poor response on YouTube where heContinue reading “The Metaphor of Genetic Code”
Jordan Peterson’s Idea of God
In this short video Jordan Peterson explains his idea of god, and identifies the shallowness that afflicts the New Atheists while remaining blind to his own superficiality: https://t.co/2RfBxwV05d?amp=1 Nobody who has seriously studied Nietzsche and the thinkers who came after can watch that video without cringing. Peterson is a shallow man pandering to semi-educated andContinue reading “Jordan Peterson’s Idea of God”
The Illusion of Fine Tuning
Note: This was written in response to an apologist who asked for debate and discussion partners on her YouTube channel, but ignored my offer to debate the ID claim of fine tuning, much as she has evaded debates on other topics: SJ Thomason @Lead1225·15h Now that I’ve finally figured out how to best show videosContinue reading “The Illusion of Fine Tuning”
Bertuzzi’s Failed Rebuttal
Carmen Bertuzzi is a Christian apologist with a YouTube channel called “Capturing Christ”. On Twitter he recently linked to a video, entitled “No, There’s No Special Pleading”, where he attempts to defend the long-debunked Kalam Cosmological Argument in response to a video by another YouTuber, Stephen Woodford of Rationality Rule, that demonstrates the fallacies ofContinue reading “Bertuzzi’s Failed Rebuttal”
On the Question of Christianity as a Pillar of Western Civilization
This a piece I wrote for Eidos at the request of John Mark Reynolds rebutting the often heard claim that the West grew from the two pillars of Athens and Jerusalem. I contend that Christianity was a foreign graft onto the healthy body of Greek Civilization, and went through stages of malignancy and rejection. IContinue reading “On the Question of Christianity as a Pillar of Western Civilization”
Too Late for the Gods 