...as long as it suits them? For a while now it has been becoming more and more apparent to me how selective religious apologists, especially Christian apologists, are invoking underdetermination.
For instance apologists will gladly invoke underdetermination with knowledge claims that they...
for the existence of Jesus? If there were evidence wouldn't people just look to historians, the professional experts of history, for that evidence like we do for everything else? Why the special exception?
as evidence? Evidence by definition increases the likelihood that the event in question actually happens. In this circumstance, evidence means that which increases the likelihood that God exists (since it is not established a priori). When in the history of the universe has logic ever been...
consistent basis? Then why did Christians need to torture and burn alive people who disagreed with them? And why did Christian as well as Hindu religious establishments destroys the writings of Epicurus and Cakravaka? If you arguments are so good, you would have won every argument without...
I am white American. I hate apologists: whether that's a American apologist, Muslim apologist, white apologist etc. I believe apologists like to simplify things, reverting to political correctness and looking through rose-tinted glasses to suggest the problems the world is facing are not really...
religion very frustrating? Somebody was just asking about the fact that no evidence of pre-Colombian Hebrew civilizations has ever been found in North, South or Central America. The Mormons believe certain species of domestic animals and refined metals were on the continents in pre-Colombian...
start appearing more and more? Apologist is a word that is only used for people who defend a particular belief system. You know, we don’t use the word for anything else other than the act of defending a belief system. Since no belief system is based on any evidence or rational thought process...