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Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed
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Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed
September 2, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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The short version has the audacity to say that atheists steal intellectual ideas from Christians and builds upon them, and that Christian's allow them to. O.o

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Thoughts! I've read responses in comments and videos which amuse me, but I'm curious to see what responses you all have to this.

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RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed
September 3, 2008 at 12:14 am
What I find humorous is that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy doesn't mention God once in it's lengthy article on The Problem of Induction. This guy is simply talking out of his arse. Science uses a mixture of deduction and induction anyway. A large sample of results are obtained, in which the deduction is made that X is happening in all samples. The induction method is that since X is happening over such a broad range of samples, and no sample has yet contradicted it, X must be valid for all possible samples.

No, it isn't perfect. Does it work? Yes. It is the closest method we will ever get to scientific knowledge, other than being omniscient.
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RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed
September 3, 2008 at 4:50 am
What a twat!
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RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed
September 8, 2008 at 1:44 am
Oh sh*t, I just watched the first 4 minutes then realised it was 4 minutes of my life I'll never get back Sad
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RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed
September 8, 2008 at 5:15 am
(September 8, 2008 at 1:44 am)Jason Jarred Wrote: Oh sh*t, I just watched the first 4 minutes then realised it was 4 minutes of my life I'll never get back Sad
I feel your pain, but I've watched every single one of Kent Hovind's lectures.
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RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed
September 8, 2008 at 11:28 am
(September 8, 2008 at 1:44 am)Jason Jarred Wrote: Oh sh*t, I just watched the first 4 minutes then realised it was 4 minutes of my life I'll never get back Sad

Sorry! >.>
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