RE: Credible/Honest Apologetics?
June 6, 2022 at 7:15 pm
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2022 at 7:19 pm by Simon Moon.)
I have a shelf full of various a books on apologetics, including several that include Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.
None of them offer any credible arguments for the existence of a god (Cosmological (Kalam), Teleological, presuppositional, Ontological arguments all contain at least one invalid or unsound premise), nor do they offer any credible (demonstrable, unfalsifiable) evidence, either.
As far as being honest, I truly accept that many apologists are being honest, in that they believe what they say, they are just mistaking as to the validity and/or soundness of what they are saying.
None of them offer any credible arguments for the existence of a god (Cosmological (Kalam), Teleological, presuppositional, Ontological arguments all contain at least one invalid or unsound premise), nor do they offer any credible (demonstrable, unfalsifiable) evidence, either.
As far as being honest, I truly accept that many apologists are being honest, in that they believe what they say, they are just mistaking as to the validity and/or soundness of what they are saying.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
