Monday, June 12, 2006

Off-message

A couple years ago Norman Geisler, defender of inerrancy wrote an absurdly titled book: I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. One review quote on the back, though, provides a perfect example of how the truth has a way of accidentally slipping out. William Dembski is quotes as saying: "Geisler and Turek present the crucial information needed to avoid being swept away by the onslaughts of secular ideologies that cast science, philosophy, and biblical studies as enemies of the Christian faith."

Emphasis mine.

6 comments:

Bronze Dog said...

A couple years ago Norman Geisler, defender of inerrancy wrote an absurdly titled book: I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist.

Riiiiiight. We need faith to point out the lack of definition, not to mention evidence.

Anonymous said...

Have you even red it? Im listening to it on and it makes a pretty good case.

Anonymous said...

sorry, read

Anonymous said...

Example "If you say how can God allow their to be evil in the world." you are addmitting there is evil. Who put the standard for evil? If humans did it then I can say its a matter of opinion. If you deny evil what do you call Hitler. Good to his own opinion?

Anonymous said...

i should have proboly read through that before i posted it. on tape

Hallq said...

I didn't waste my time reading the whole thing, but I read enough to know that the arguments are innane. Take the argument you quoted: it works just was well to say, "If god did it then I can say its a matter of opinion." At another point in the book, the authors say, in effect, "Just because we have tons of fossil evidence for evolution doens't prove that evolution happened." It's pretty empty.