Rejecting the Ontological Argument

It’s a long weekend in Canada and I sat and watched this hour long presentation from Dr. Josh Rasmussen at Cameron Bertuzzi’s Capturing Christianity live conference. He’s discussing a possible update to the Ontological Argument for God’s existence. I must admit, it’s unsettling to see Cameron outside of his dark dramatically lit cave of a […]

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On The Definition of Faith

For the past couple centuries, if not longer, the writing has been on the wall for the religious. You can’t use reason and evidence to demonstrate to the satisfaction of an outsider that religious claims of the supernatural are true. (This was eloquently outlined in John Loftus’ book The Outsider Test for Faith) It’s no secret […]

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A Fascinating Experiment in Debate

Apparently, Eric Hovind — a young-Earth creationist minister in Florida with a tenuous connection to reality — offered ten thousand dollars to Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire to debate him on the subject of a six thousand year old earth. While that debate never happened (as a general rule, any religious person who claims […]

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