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April 2020

April 13, 2020

William Lane Craig Needs to Insult Islam Some More

In part 1, we considered William Lane Craig’s childishly flawed defense of the Trinity. Now...

April 10, 2020

William Lane Craig Insults Islam and Misrepresents His Own Religion

William Lane Craig compares Christianity with Islam and argues that the Trinitarian Christian god is...

November 2019

November 19, 2019

Can God Be Benevolent if He Sends Your Children to Hell?

Isn’t failing to believe in Jesus as your savior rather arbitrary? Is that sufficient to...

May 2019

May 10, 2019

Is Life Absurd Without God? A Reply to WLC’s Influential Article (2 of 3).

An atheist declared that an article by William Lane Craig rocked his world. Let's take...

April 2015

April 22, 2015

Is Life Absurd Without God? A Reply to WLC’s Influential Article (3 of 3).

An atheist recently declared that an article by William Lane Craig rocked his world. Let’s...

April 20, 2015

Is Life Absurd Without God? A Reply to WLC’s Influential Article (2 of 3).

An atheist recently declared that an article by William Lane Craig rocked his world. Let’s...

April 16, 2015

Is Life Absurd Without God? A Reply to WLC’s Influential Article.

An atheist recently declared that an article by William Lane Craig rocked his world. Let’s...

April 08, 2015

Does This Atheist Have a Point? Or Is This a Sycophantic Poe?

Take a look at “the greatest letter” answered by William Lane Craig. It’s signed, “your...

February 2015

February 16, 2015

How Christian Apologists Teleport Across Lessing’s “Ugly, Broad Ditch”

A little thing like lack of evidence won’t stop Christian apologists from handwaving about why...

February 09, 2015

The Argument from Mathematics Doesn’t Add Up to God (2 of 2)

Let’s conclude our exploration of this new argument for Christianity. The Argument from Mathematics argues...

June 2014

June 04, 2014

Sh*t Christians Say

Christians have a shaky relationship with evidence. They embrace it—in fact, say they’re the rational...

April 2014

April 25, 2014

Carefree Christian Dinghy Hits Immoveable Rock of Reality: Thoughts on the Craig vs. Carroll Debate

Philosopher William Lane Craig debated cosmology with a cosmologist, Sean Carroll. Predictably, Christianity didn’t fare...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

Oral Tradition and the Game of Telephone: A.N. Sherwin-White’s Famous Quote

The Jesus story spread widely in the decades after his death, and only then was...

September 2013

September 13, 2013

Rebutting the “God is Simple” Argument

Apologists Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig argue that God is simple. Their argument isn’t...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

God ♥ Genocide

The Bible makes clear what God thinks of genocide. Apologist William Lane Craig attempts a...

February 2013

February 05, 2013

Christianity, the Ultimate Unfalsifiable Hypothesis

A hypothesis should be testable, including “God exists.” How honestly do Christians follow the evidence?...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

It’s a Pro-Slavery Free-For-All!

That God allows slavery in the Old Testament is one of the stickier issues Christian...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Don’t Move the Goalposts, Again

About the puzzling questions at the limits of science, apologists often say, “If you can’t...

July 2012

July 13, 2012

Infinity—Nothing to Trifle With (2 of 2)

Some apologists toss around the idea of infinity easily and comfortably. If they understood some...

July 12, 2012

Infinity—Nothing to Trifle With

Some apologists toss around the idea of infinity easily and comfortably. If they understood some...

April 2012

April 08, 2012

Women at the Tomb? Weak Evidence for the Resurrection.

Apologists love to bring up the women at the tomb. Women weren’t reliable witnesses in...

February 2012

February 22, 2012

It’s Funny Until Someone Gets Hurt, then it’s Hilarious

There is a bit of malicious joy in sitting at the sidelines watching the nutty...

January 2012

January 16, 2012

What Does the Bible Say About Abortion? Not Much.

God has no problem killing men, women, and children, so what’s the big deal? There’s...

January 11, 2012

What’s Wrong with the Pro-Life Position?

If pregnancy wasn’t that big a deal, we could just let the pro-life movement have...

January 02, 2012

The “God is Simple” Argument

Apologists argue that God is simple. But their argument isn’t holy but full of holes.

December 2011

December 19, 2011

Understanding Morality—It’s Really Not that Hard

When apologist Greg Kokul critiques atheist morality, it’s hard to imagine that he’ll get so...

November 2011

November 16, 2011

Don’t Move the Goalposts

Apologists often say about the puzzling questions at the limits of science, “If you can’t...

November 14, 2011

Can Christian Scholars Be Objective?

Christian scholar Michael Licona recently made one small challenge to the inerrancy of scripture, and...

November 09, 2011

An Inept Attempt to Defang the Problem of Evil

Christian apologist Greg Kokul tries to turn the tables on the atheist who proposes the...

October 2011

October 24, 2011

Christianity Can Rot Your Brain

God commands a lot of genocide in the Bible. Apparently feeling compelled to justify the...