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Letter to Apollos from a Concerned Believer

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(Or: How Not to Object to Chris­t­ian Apolo­get­ics.) Dear Apol­los: I’m con­cerned about your min­istry. You pub­licly defend the pub­lic res­ur­rec­tion and pub­lic king­ship of Jesus by appeal­ing to pub­lic Scrip­tures and pub­lic evi­dences. You even have the audac­ity to say that Jesus rose bod­ily from the dead and that he is right­ful king over every­thing and … [Read more...]

Plantinga Summarises the Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

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Here’s how Alvin Planti­nga sum­marises the evo­lu­tion­ary argu­ment against nat­u­ral­ism (EAAN) in his book Where the Con­flict Really Lies (p. 314):1 The basic idea of my argu­ment could be put (a bit crudely) as fol­lows. First, the prob­a­bil­ity of our cog­ni­tive fac­ul­ties being reli­able, given nat­u­ral­ism and evo­lu­tion, is low. (To put it a bit inac­cu­rately … [Read more...]

What Caused God?

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Adam: Chris, ear­lier in our con­ver­sa­tion you said that phys­i­cal real­ity must've been caused by something—either by God or by some­thing like God. Right? Chris: Yeah, that’s right. Adam: That’s all very well. But then what caused God? Chris: I’m not entirely sure I under­stand your ques­tion. Can you elab­o­rate a bit? Adam: Well, take the so-called argu­ment for a … [Read more...]

John Walton—“Genesis Through Ancient Eyes”

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A common objec­tion to Chris­tian­ity is that there's supposedly a fundamental conflict between the bib­li­cal and sci­en­tific sto­ries of the ori­gin and devel­op­ment of the uni­verse, the Earth, life, and so on and so forth. John Wal­ton, ((John Wal­ton has a Ph.D. in Hebrew and Cog­nate Stud­ies from the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Insti­tute of Reli­gion, Cincin­nati, … [Read more...]

Rejecting Claims Because They Have Inconvenient Implications

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Often peo­ple rea­son as follows: (1) If claim C is true, X is the case. (2) I find X dif­fi­cult, incon­ve­nient, repul­sive, or unde­sir­able in some other way. (3) (So) claim C is false. Of course, this isn’t a valid argu­ment. It’s miss­ing a premise: (4) If I find X dif­fi­cult, incon­ve­nient, repul­sive, or unde­sir­able in some other way, X is not the case. Premise … [Read more...]

Don’t Reject Theistic Arguments Too Quickly!

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Scep­tics often reject the­is­tic argu­ments by point­ing out that they “don’t prove God.”[1] Per­haps the the­ist has just argued that there’s a per­sonal uncaused cause, or a per­sonal designer of the uni­verse, or a nec­es­sar­ily exis­tent per­fectly ratio­nal mind, or what-have-you; in any case, the sceptic’s response is to explain how the theist’s argu­ment doesn’t … [Read more...]

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In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, in all things charity. The Christian Apologetics Alliance (CAA) is united in our Statement of Faith. The CAA does not, as an organization, have positions on many of the doctrinal or theological debates that take place within the church. Our primary concern is to promote the gracious, rational defense of the central claims of Christianity and the critique of opposing systems of thought. The CAA joyfully welcomes Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and diverse Protestant believers, and we are committed to treating all these traditions with respect in our community.

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