Science, for example, keeps inconveniently discovering that some things that ordinary people have enjoyed for a long time (booze, cigs, sugary foods, automobiles, air travel, guns,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 hour ago
"Seems to me that Distinguished Professor Doctor Researcher Habermas has a problem with early Christians, not modern skeptics." I don't believe that is true. I would submit that what...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 1 hour ago
There are many ways to validate Christ's resurrection. One is that there was a marked changed in the courage and demeanor of the disciples who then became Apostles. The creeds about Christ as...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 1 hour ago
A number of places where Jesus says He is going to die for the sins of the world and be raised again. Matthew 17:22-23 ESV As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 2 hours ago
"There is absolutely no way that the resurrection of Jesus can be proven empirically or objectivey" If I become filled with the Holy Spirit so that I am experiencing the richest measure...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 2 hours ago
I used to slam the side of the TV when it wasn't working. Then it would work again.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 hours ago
Ephesians 3:19 talks of knowing the love of Christ experientially and not only knowledge without experience. And having the richest measure of the Divine Presence and becoming a body wholly filled...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 3 hours ago
" The fact that it is faith based and not evidentiary is the reason that apologists have to come up with other means of "defending" their beliefs such as philosophical arguments...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 3 hours ago
"It looks like a gigantic effort to simply overwhelm and bury the reader with material, and then Christians can tell themselves that a serious intellectual who is way smarter than them has...
Debunking Christianity: On the Resurrection: Evidences, Vol. 1, by Gary Habermas · 4 hours ago
When someone becomes curious enough and willing to confront ONE question like the above with the sincere desire to understand the answer and its implications, they have already become the kind of...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
It's like the computer: hardware (brain) and software (mind). I know it's simplistic, but I'm a simple man.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
I am guessing that atheists will in most cases hold that brain is necessary for mind.
Currently it looks that way. It's an open question as to whether other substrates...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 6 hours ago
To say that the mind supervenes on the brain is to say that the one is not identical with the other, no?
Strictly speaking, yes. But in the context of Tom's comment,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
To say that the mind supervenes on the brain is to say that the one is not identical with the other, no? Otherwise, "supervene" is an empty term. As I proposed to Robert Conner below, the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 hours ago
??? To draw a distinction between a bodily organ and the functions of that organ, and the effects of the functions, is not to posit anything supernatural. I am guessing that atheists will in most...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 hours ago
That's substantiated.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
It's still a bit mysterious how the brain made of goo produces subjective experience (see "the hard problem of consciousness"). The brain is made of individual neurons (and glial...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 15 hours ago
My own personal philosophy is to draw a connection between these two items:
7. Insist On Evidence. 11. Everything is Permissible, but Use Caution.
As the OP points out in...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 15 hours ago
No one contests that circulation is the heart and blood vessels because we have the technology to understand the anatomy, timing, and hemodynamics of the heart and vascular system. Not so with the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 16 hours ago
I would briefly respond by noting that nothing about Fat Donny's ever been a big secret.
To 40% of American voters, sure. The ones who read multiple news sources and...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 16 hours ago
Some decades ago I read an anthropology book about Navajo humor, and one of the things that it said leaves them in stitches is the sight of a "white man" kicking his car or any other...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 16 hours ago
Traditional Christian values change by the pew.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 17 hours ago
Well, traditionally Christians believed Jesus when he said no to divorce. That one had already gone out the window for American Christians thanks to the Sexual Revolution, before Trump showed up to...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 17 hours ago
To be fair to Tom's argument, we can relax "equals" to some degree while still leaving the conclusion as a valid basis for policy. For example, if "the brain" accounts for...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 17 hours ago