From Debunking Christianity:
Tell us. What would you believe? THAT is the question. My claim is that biblical criticism is an undercutting defeater for what Christians believe such that without the Bible they would become agnostics and then afterward possibly atheists. At that point they would see the arguments for the existence of God as little more than a shell game.
How would you respond?
Peter Hitchens, well-known journalist, author and brother to outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens, has just written a book entitled The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me To Faith. Here’s a short trailer:
And from the back cover:
With unflinching openness and intellectual honesty, Hitchens describes the personal loss and philosophical curiosity that led him to burn his Bible at prep school and embrace atheism in its place. From there, he traces his experience as a journalist in Soviet Moscow, and the critical observations that left him with more questions than answers, and more despair than hope for how to live a meaningful life. With first-hand insight into the blurring of the line between politics and the Church, Hitchens reveals the reasons why an honest assessment of Atheism cannot sustain disbelief in God. In the process, he provides hope for all believers who, in the words of T. S. Eliot, may discover ‘the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’
This should prove interesting.
Since LOST, Fringe and Star Trek (not to mention Obamacare) have everybody talking about multiple universes and realities, I thought this post by Cornelius Hunter was timely (and besides, it’s a good read).
It got me thinking: If there are universes out there where every potentiality is a reality, then there must be universes where evolution happened the way “science” believes it did. There are also universes, then, where it didn’t. There must be universes, then, where there is not only a God, but a God which created the world in 6 days (and others in which He created the world in six “periods” of indeterminate length).
I, however, fail to accept that there are any universes in which Calvinism is true; the premise of multiverse theory is that the realities must have potentiality in the original universe. (It’s a joke … think about it.)
If multiverse theory is correct, this means that:
So, in the event that multiverse theory is correct, multiverse theory is impossible.
It would seem, that multiverse theory is either incorrect, or impossible. What does this mean for LOST, Fringe and Star Trek?
Spam
Some of the spam comments I get on this blog (and I get many, many spam comments…) are quite funny. Too bad I can’t quote them – I try to keep this a PG-rated blog. How in the world do people think up this stuff?