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Stephen Woodford Paints Himself Into a Corner

Posted on 2021-07-07 by jimbelton

Stephen Woodford of Rationality Rules has a new video out where he discusses “Thoughts on Atheist Cancel Culture”. I’m going to examine the relevant portions. In a recent video, I expressed what I consider to be the three biggest mistakes … Continue reading →

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Taking the Atheist Challenge

Posted on 2020-07-05 by jimbelton

Though I’m not an atheist (I consider myself a Christian, though not in a strict sense), I’m going to take The Atheist Challenge. 1. If there is NO God, then there is no Measurement or Standard for morality?  Then What … Continue reading →

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Rationality Rules Debunks a Strawman, I Debunk Matt Slick

Posted on 2019-07-11 by jimbelton

Another day, another video by Stephen Woodford video to criticize. In the case of Matt Slick’s Transcendental Argument – Debunked, Woodford has made things easy. He begins by restating Slick’s argument: If there are only two possible options and one … Continue reading →

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Rationality Rules – Debunked

Posted on 2018-06-17 by jimbelton

I just watched the video “Western Civilization is Based on Judeo-Christian Values – Debunked” and found the arguments made by Rationality Rules weak. I’ll comment after the video: First of all, some of the quotes used to illustrate the claim … Continue reading →

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Answering 20 Questions for Atheists

Posted on 2018-04-29 by jimbelton

I’m going to answer 20 questions atheists struggle to answer , which were posted on the Christian Medical Comment blog by Peter Saunders. 1.What caused the universe to exist? We don’t know. When I say know, I mean that science doesn’t have an … Continue reading →

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Why the Atheist “Argument from Diversity” is Fallacious

Posted on 2016-08-06 by jimbelton

Stated simply, the atheist argument from diversity is essentially that religions contradict each other, and therefore its highly likely that no religion is true. I have a huge problem with this: A religion is not merely true or false. Religions … Continue reading →

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Dissecting 12 Arguments Against Christianity

Posted on 2016-08-04 by jimbelton

I keep running into atheist arguments, many of which are arguments I’ve made in the past, that somehow no longer seem to shake my belief that there is a higher power in the universe and my recent conversion to the … Continue reading →

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The Problem of Evil

Posted on 2016-05-13 by jimbelton

One question that atheists love to throw out when debating Christians (or Jews, or Muslims) is the question of why, if God is good, omniscient, and omnipotent, is there evil and suffering? For example, you can watch as Stephen Fry … Continue reading →

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Atheism and Free Will

Posted on 2016-04-29 by jimbelton

I watched the following video on atheism on The Rubin Report. The description of the video is “An atheist isn’t denying that a god or gods exist, an atheist is just asking evidence for such an incredible claim. All this … Continue reading →

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Answers to Questions for Atheists by Matt Slick

Posted on 2015-11-26 by jimbelton

These questions were posted by Matt Slick on the web site of the Christian Appologetics and Research Ministry. I’ve provided my answers. Matt writes: These questions are not meant to be show stoppers. They are only for research purposes so … Continue reading →

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