TalkOrigins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy. The UK's Leading Atheist Page. Really good news, toward a personal atheist apologia. Undefined Toward a personal atheist apologia. Introduction Humanity uses a variety of social systems to give order and meaning to life's problems, pleasures, and discoveries. Among those systems are those built on spirituality, such as religion, divination, meditation, and psychic power.
For a spiritualist, their own system is a unique revelation in a world full of revelations. For me the question of finding the spiritual system that is right, or right for myself, is less important than the question as to whether any spiritual system is worth the investment of time. The Topic of Interest Candidates for the foundation to all spiritual systems include angels, prayer, faith, purposefulness of life and of death, mystical events, sin and evil , and others, no doubt. The "Basis" The basis of all forms of spirituality, then, are these two concepts: that spirits are somehow connected to individuals; that there is a superspirit.
Discussions of the Basis of Spirituality from a Skeptical Viewpoint. The Jury Is In: The Ruling on Josh McDowell's "Evidence" Jeffery Jay Lowder (editor) Introduction (1997) by Jeffery Jay Lowder Josh McDowell's Evidence That Demands a Verdict (hereafter, "ETDAV") is arguably one of the most influential Christian apologetic books today. The purpose of Jury shall be to evaluate how well it does. Chapter 1. The Uniqueness of the Bible (1997) by Farrell Till In ETDAV, McDowell begins his defense of the Bible with the claim that it is unique. Chapter 3. A critical reply to chapter three of Josh McDowell's Evidence That Demands a Verdict. Chapter 4. In this essay, the author reacts to Josh McDowell's Chapter 4 entitled "Reliability of the Bible" in his book ETDAV. Chapter 5. In the fifth chapter of ETDAV entitled, "Jesus--A Man of History," Josh McDowell lists a series of "sources for the historicity of Jesus. " Chapter 6.
Virtually all the rest of McDowell's sixth chapter is taken up with defending what no one challenges: that various New Testament writers believed Jesus Christ was a heavenly being come to earth. Modern Library. Secular Web Historical Library Subject Index. Atheism. About Atheism [ Index ] Various introductions to atheism, including its definition; its relationship to agnosticism, theism, and noncognitivism; and its value.
Arguments for Atheism [ Index ] In this section, "arguments for atheism" means "arguments for the nonexistence of God. " In the jargon of the philosophy of religion, such arguments are known as "atheological arguments. " The argument from evil (sometimes referred to as 'the problem of evil') is by far the most famous of such arguments, but it is by no means the only such argument. Indeed, in the 1990s atheist philosophers developed a flurry of atheological arguments; arguably the most famous of such arguments is the argument from divine hiddenness (and the related argument from nonbelief). Atheism, Theism, and the Burden of Proof [ Index ] Debates [ Index ] Links to transcripts or reviews of debates specifically about atheism (as opposed to debates about Christianity, Islam, creation/evolution, etc.).
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