RE: Respectable books on apologetics?
April 17, 2014 at 10:50 am
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2014 at 11:48 am by JesusHChrist.)
Apologetics is inherently disreputable.
As someone may have said earlier, the problem is one of epistemology - how do you know what you know?
All theistic "knowledge" comes from logic or revelation, but none from direct observation. Stories on stories over the centuries.
As far as I know, all arguments for gods have been soundly refuted - ontological, design, first cause - you name it, it's been refuted.
I would look at your question the other way - why accept something as truth when its tenets have so roundly been trounced? The very basis of "knowing" in theism is plain wrong.
As someone may have said earlier, the problem is one of epistemology - how do you know what you know?
All theistic "knowledge" comes from logic or revelation, but none from direct observation. Stories on stories over the centuries.
As far as I know, all arguments for gods have been soundly refuted - ontological, design, first cause - you name it, it's been refuted.
I would look at your question the other way - why accept something as truth when its tenets have so roundly been trounced? The very basis of "knowing" in theism is plain wrong.
