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@Rashiq__Shahzad @CapturingChrist @KhalilAndani Yes but you can't really compare them, Kierkegaard didn't like analytic arguments for God

@CapturingChrist @KhalilAndani Søren Kierkegaard >> Aquinas

I mean Aquinas was reading Al-Farabi and Ibn Sina…..

Today I respond to Matt Dillahunty’s recent response to me. Let’s talk about claims, evidence, and science, baby, let’s talk you and me… youtu.be/LHVUeC3NI3A

@pikaspeedtwit @majestyofreason The comment section on that vid is genuinely insane

@majestyofreason A good time to post this comment from the Adelstein-Dillahunty debate

@Jimmygoodm91073 @etherspin @JusBrierley @glenscrivener @CosmicSkeptic @skydivephil @KonstantinKisin He's Christian now

@etherspin @JusBrierley @glenscrivener @CosmicSkeptic @skydivephil @KonstantinKisin Nathan Ormond was an atheist YouTuber but it seems he has moved on to politics.

Delightful to be able to host @holland_tom & @DrPJWilliams in conversation last night on Jesus & History. Available soon on video at pillarandstep.com

@Ellie8639779916 @WTSmith17 @digitalgnosis I thought Nathan was much more bearable after converting back to Christianity and becoming a wittgenstein worshipper; a lot of his streams had become him talking a lot of shit so its weird that this was the one that went viral. I'll definitely miss him

@WTSmith17 @digitalgnosis I've known of this guy for years, and I don't think he's representative of the modern left. He can behave erratically and personally I find him obnoxious, but I don't think he would actually hurt anyone in real life.

This is how close Konstantin Kisin came to being assassinated during his debate with Destiny. It looks like this guy has now nuked his channel. @DigitalGnosis

@analyticatheism @waldenpod Go on tiktok, the atheists there are literally new atheists but with an even worse grasp in epistemology

@waldenpod Bring back Reddit Atheism.

“What are you, some kind of REDDIT ATHEIST?” “What did I say that was wrong?” “Well, nothing” Many such cases

@juprawrs @gerrylynch @hanno_sauer I'd have to think about this more but you do raise up some good points

@AssBithc @gerrylynch @hanno_sauer So surely consistency would concede that the best explanation is again from the brain. We have thousands of examples where we created things, and those things already exist in our body in a more complex way, yet we don’t adhere to creation.

I read Douthat's 'Believe'. The case for theism is extraordinarily weak and, I would suggest, not really possible to entertain for intellectually serious adults; but more importantly, the case for any specific religion is just non-existent.

@paulogia0 I really thought you were above making content with apologists like Forrest Valkai

THEISTS! Should I believe what you believe? Am I wrong about some aspect of Christianity? Please call tonight and tell me. I'm ready to be corrected. youtube.com/watch?v=9bJ3QZ…

@goingawoll @PremierRadio When will it be uploaded to YouTube?

Just had a friendly but spirited debate w/ Joshua Sijuwade on @PremierRadio’s “Unbelievable?”—topic was a priori arguments for Christianity. It goes HARD. 🔥

@RightAllTheTime @gerrylynch @hanno_sauer Well Antony Flew certainty thought so which means a lot IMO, but science usually has a good track record of explaining natural processes like these (not advocating for scientism btw), Paley made the same mistake and now evolution can explain why species exist (though not life)

@AssBithc @gerrylynch @hanno_sauer This isn't a "God of the gaps" argument, this is an "inference to the best explanation" argument.

@TGrogan268173 @Eli_Kunkel @hanno_sauer You can verify fine tuning constants, same with psychophysical harmony (h-fibers and such).

@Eli_Kunkel @hanno_sauer More learned idling. Sufficient objective verifiable evidence is needed. BTW all these philosophers believe in different "gods". Ignoring the "god" as depicted in the Hebrew Bible.

@gerrylynch @hanno_sauer Fine tuning and bayesian consciousness arguments are very strong, but the emergence of DNA is God-of-the-gaps IMO

@hanno_sauer Fine tuning? The improbability of the spontaneous emergence of DNA? Consciousness? Do you have a explanation for these things or do you just work on, like, a metaphysical presumption that whatever the cause, it can't be God.

@Atomixion2 @JoelMCurzon Have you read Robyn Faith Walsh?

@JoelMCurzon john is redacting the synoptics, which are redacting mark, which is fan fiction about pauls letters.

The Gospel of John states that Jesus died before the Passover meal, as the lambs for that meal were being slaughtered (the day of preparation). The other gospels claim that he died the following day. Both cannot be true, though both could be false. Which timeline is correct? Why?

@timmodryoid You're a polytheist correct?

The more I read Edward’s dissertation, the less gnostic I became. Now, as I read more Proclus directly, the idea of individuation and embodiment as fall strikes me as a grievous error, or at least a partial truth masquerading as the whole.

@AStrasser116 Mogmussen

"The itch in your foot is not a triangle" - Josh Rasmussen Love this guy

@waldenpod Ive been meaning to read this book for a while, I've heard nothing but good things about Dale Allison

“Yet our world is rife with evil, and laying it all at the feet of Adam and Eve’s wayward offspring is an anthropocentric conceit. Our species is not all that has gone wrong with the world. Were we to vanish tomorrow at dawn, the Creator would not be able to look down and see that all is good. Drought would still slay baby elephants. Rabies would still stalk and murder raccoons. Chimpanzee communities would still splinter and go to war. Parasitoid wasps would still torment and kill beautiful caterpillars, and as Darwin confessed: 'I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.' In short, nature would still be, without us around, red in tooth and claw, and prodigious pain and unjust suffering would remain rampant." Dale Allison, Encountering Mystery (p.44)

@TGrogan268173 @RHyperboreo Different views of God; it seems they were all referring to the same metaphysical concept (except maybe Einstein) but has different views on what this concept was like

@RHyperboreo They all believed in "different gods". You must have forgotten to point that out!

This is profoundly true. From Galileo, through Newton and Leibniz, all the way to Heisenberg and Einstein, great scientific geniuses believed in God. The figure of the nerdy atheist only emerged with Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. And the result is that contemporary science is stagnant due to nerdy positivism. The nerd, in truth, does not love science - which is a divine gift -, but rather his own personal technical brilliance. This causes him to become mentally stagnant and never discover anything truly grand.

@rushwithfour @JoelMCurzon joshualrasmussen.com/does-studying-… What do you think about this?

@JoelMCurzon Philosophy of religion is filled with deeply religious people who went into the field to academically bolster their pre existing beliefs, in my experience. Tons on Twitter. The best philosopher of religion, however, is an atheist (Graham Oppy).

Among those who study philosophy professionally, in all specialties, a strong majority (more than 66%) tends toward atheism. Fewer than 19% lean toward theism. (The only outlier among philosophy departments is philosophy of religion, where self-selection flips the results.)

@PolarBearinTex @GAFollowers Right? Most people living there aren't even from Georgia originally

@GAFollowers “Local talent”

Alpharetta was named the #1 small U.S. city for big career opportunities by CoworkingCafe. The city excelled in salary, job market strength, quality of life, and local talent ecosystem among 297 cities studied.

@KyleGrimm366261 @ShawnRyan762 Mark Goodacre would be nice, Dale Allison is also amazing

@ShawnRyan762 Still hoping one day you’ll have on a historical biblical scholar. Bart ehrman just retired from UNC and would be perfect

In today's episode I sit down with Wes Huff, a Canadian Christian apologist, Reformed Baptist theologian, and Vice President of Apologetics Canada, born in Multan, Pakistan, who has read the Quran multiple times and built his career defending the historical reliability of the Bible. We tackle hard questions about evil, suffering, salvation, anxiety, and what it truly means to live as a Christian, as Wes lays out the historical case for the crucifixion, explains grace versus works, and challenges contradictions within Islamic texts. He breaks down the Dead Sea Scrolls, the preservation of Scripture, the Book of Enoch, apocryphal writings, and how early manuscripts support the New Testament’s credibility. This was an awesome conversation. Thank you for coming out @WesleyLHuff.