(March 24, 2015 at 7:04 pm)Pizz-atheist Wrote: He might be a fideist as well as a Liberal. It's not uncommon for Christian philosophers to criticize arguments for god that they think fail.
Indeed. My first thoughts were of Immanuel Kant, who very famously argued against many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, while still being a Christian.
I think the mistake that many people make is confusing the conclusion of an argument with the validity of an argument. Anyone who has studied logic (and was not a total failure at it) understands that the two concepts are quite separate and distinct, but many people don't, and so they imagine that rejecting a specific argument means that they are rejecting the conclusion of the argument, which is not necessarily the case.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
