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My Comments on Other Blogs (PAGE 1)

Here are links to some blogs I've commented on. My comments are those by the nick Annoyed Pinoy. They are generally listed chronologically (give or take a few days or months) starting with the most recent. I'm still in the process of posting them (there may be some duplicates).

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What do unbelievers live for?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/08/what-do-unbelievers-live-for.html

The agony and the ecstasy
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-agony-and-ecstasy.html

Why God Would Perform Partial, Gradual, And Other Lesser Miracles
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/08/why-god-would-perform-partial-gradual.html

51 Biblical Proofs Of A Pauline Papacy And Ephesian Primacy
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/08/51-biblical-proofs-of-pauline-papacy.html

Circuit breaker
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/08/circuit-breaker.html

Pope or antipope? Let's flip a coin
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/08/pope-or-antipope-lets-flip-coin.html

Why Miracles Aren't More Documented
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-miracles-arent-more-documented.html

A false Euthyphro dilemma
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-false-euthyphro-dilemma.html

The ‘Rule of Faith’ and the New Testament Canon
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-rule-of-faith-and-new-testament.html

A token grief
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-token-grief.html

Psychosomatic Miracles?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/psychosomatic-miracles.html

Can singles cheat?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/can-singles-cheat.html

Already, and not yet
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/already-and-not-yet.html

Wintery Knight on Van Til
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/wintery-knight-on-van-til.html

The Healing Of Amputees
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/healing-of-amputees.html

Clash of the Titans
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/clash-of-titans.html

How Many People Claim To Have Witnessed A Miracle?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-many-people-claim-to-have-witnessed.html

Dreams and visions
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/dreams-and-visions.html

White men can't jump
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/07/white-men-cant-jump.html

Extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/06/extraordinary-evidence-for.html
"Unconditional eternal security"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/06/unconditional-eternal-security.html

The deeper we dig
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/06/deeper-we-dig.html

Ascribed status
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/06/ascribed-status.html

Serendipitous savant
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/05/serendipitous-savant.html

NOMA
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/04/noma.html

Is the future open?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-future-open.html

On the Origin of Everything
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-origin-of-everything.html

Resources on transcendental theism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/03/resources-on-transcendental-theism.html

Olson's false dichotomy
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/03/olsons-false-dichotomy.html

Reefer madness
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/03/reefer-madness.html

The Cause And Cure Of Earthquakes
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/03/cause-and-cure-of-earthquakes.html

He is the true God
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/03/he-is-true-god.html

Gullibility, Rebellion, or ...?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/03/gullibility-rebellion-or.html

A Response to Eastern Orthodoxy
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/02/response-to-eastern-orthodoxy.html

More About First-Century Manuscripts
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-about-first-century-manuscripts.html

Stirring Up the Amillennial Beehive
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/02/stirring-up-amillennial-beehive.html

The grass is always greener...
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/02/grass-is-always-greener.html

Linsanity
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/02/linsanity.html

The End Of Infidelity
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/02/end-of-infidelity.html
William Lane Craig: "Christian belief is not based on the historical evidence."
http://www.debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2012/02/william-lane-craig-christian-belief-is.html

The first rule of Arminian ethics: ethics don't apply to Arminians
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/02/first-rule-of-arminian-ethics-ethics.html

Polygamy Is Condemned By Scripture And Patristic Christianity
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/01/polygamy-is-condemned-by-scripture-and.html

Dishonoring Christ
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/01/dishonoring-christ.html

Krishna's harem
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/01/krishnas-harem.html

A mind at the end of its tether
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/01/mind-at-end-of-its-tether.html

Infidels on the run
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/01/infidels-on-run.html

The Bible Is the Word of God Debate - Opening Statements
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/01/bible-is-word-of-god-debate-opening.html

Loving annilationism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/01/loving-annilationism.html

Hating the hateful
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2012/01/hating-hateful.html

The single best thing you can do for your health
http://www.triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/single-best-thing-you-can-do-for-your.html

Beckwith, Hitch, and the Foundations of Morality
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/beckwith-hitch-and-foundations-of.html

An Interview With Craig Keener On Miracles
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/interview-with-craig-keener-on-miracles.html

"Is Craig a fideist?"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/is-craig-fideist.html

God, Math, and the Multiverse
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/god-math-and-multiverse.html

God is great
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/god-is-great.html

The Arminian inferno
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/arminian-inferno.html

Peter's denials
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/peters-denials.html

Why Isn't Messianic Prophecy More Detailed?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-isnt-messianic-prophecy-more.html

Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/without-shedding-of-blood-there-is-no.html

Casting lots
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/casting-lots.html

Why pray?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-pray.html

Arminian equivocations
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/11/arminian-equivocations.html

Permission and prevention
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/11/permission-and-prevention.html

Craig Keener's Work On Miracles Is Out
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/11/craig-keeners-work-on-miracles-is-out.html

Betting on a stacked deck
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/11/betting-on-stacked-deck.html

Randal Rauser v. Jag Levak
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/11/randal-rauser-v-jag-levak.html

The End of Christianity
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/10/end-of-christianity.html

Summary and review of Craig/Law debate
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/10/summary-and-review-of-craiglaw-debate.html

The Immaturity Of Christian Radio
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/09/immaturity-of-christian-radio.html

Till Dementia Do Us Part
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/09/till-dementia-do-us-part.html

Is Hell Part of the Gospel?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/09/is-hell-part-of-gospel.html

Casting a wide net
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/09/casting-wide-net.html

Divine, Demonic, Or Something Else?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/09/divine-demonic-or-something-else.html

Reinventing Calvin
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/09/reinventing-calvin.html

Fork in the river
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/09/fork-in-river.html

The river of time
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/09/river-of-time.html

Threats and promises
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/09/threats-and-promises.html

Be careful what you wish forhttp://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/09/be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html

Justification by Faith Alone
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/08/justification-by-faith-alone.html

Yoga
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/08/yoga.html

"Biblical chronology"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/08/biblical-chronology.html

Athens and Jerusalem
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/08/athens-and-jerusalem.html

The Credibility And Commonality Of Near-Death Experiences
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/08/credibility-and-commonality-of-near.html

Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/08/did-first-christians-worship-jesus.html

Split-personality narcissist
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/08/split-personality-narcissist.html

Missing links
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/08/missing-links.html

"We Are Aunicornism"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/08/we-are-aunicornism.html

Predator
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/07/predator.html

Turning from Rome
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/07/turning-from-rome.html

"Foolish nonsense"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/06/foolish-nonsense.html

The Dale follies
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/07/dale-follies.html

The Power of Being Debt Free
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/07/power-of-being-debt-free.html

Many antichrists have come
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/07/many-antichrists-have-come.html

Dialogue with James, aka Annoyed Pinoy (Trinity Versus Christ)
http://blogforthelordjesuscurrentevents.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/dialogue-with-annoyed-pinoy-trinity-versus-christ/

Do we need a "Trinity verse"?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/06/do-we-need-trinity-verse.html

Does the outsider test pass the outsider test?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/06/does-outsider-test-pass-outsider-test.html

Interviews With Some Paranormal Researchers
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/06/interviews-with-some-paranormal.html

OT honor-killings?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/06/ot-honor-killings.html

Trust & Obey
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/06/trust-obey.html

How Universalism Gets Everyone Out of Hell . . . And Heaven
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/05/how-universalism-gets-everyone-out-of.html

Rapture blues
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/05/rapture-blues.html

The one true Islamic sect
triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/05/one-true-islamic-sect.html

Abrogation
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/05/abrogation.html

Are you a heretic?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/05/are-you-heretic.html

Oparousia
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/05/oparousia.html

Dead men tell no tales
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/05/dead-men-tell-no-tales.html

Jerry Walls's Argument Against Calvinism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/04/jerry-walls-argument-against-calvinism.html

"Inspired errors"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/04/inspired-errors.html

Risk factors in suicide
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/04/risk-factors-in-suicide.html

I harmonised the Gospel accounts of the Resurrection
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-harmonised-gospel-accounts-of.html

Craig's conundrum
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/04/craig-dilemma.html

Near-Death Experiences
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/04/near-death-experiences.html

One angel or two?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/04/one-angel-or-two.html

Undesigned coincidences
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/04/undesigned-coincidences.html

Roger Olson's morally warped penology
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/04/roger-olsons-morally-warped-penology.html

Life's a bitch, then you die!
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/04/lifes-bitch-then-you-die.html

The Endless Faith
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/03/endless-faith.html

Counterfactual damnation
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/03/counterfactual-damnation.html

Paralypsis
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/03/paralypsis.html

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/03/close-encounters-of-third-kind.html

The tree of life
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/03/tree-of-life.html

Gluttony, the Third Rail in Evangelicalism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/gluttony-third-rail-in-evangelicalism.html

Can you imagine Roger Ebert...
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/can-you-imagine-roger-ebert.html

God's orchard
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/03/gods-orchard.html

Does ice cream melt in hell?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/does-ice-cream-melt-in-hell.html

Helping John Loftus understand theodicy
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/helping-john-loftus-understand-theodicy.html

Infidel action figure (brain not included)
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/infidel-action-figure-brain-not.html

The law is not of faith
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/law-is-not-of-faith.html

Living life to the maxhttp://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/living-life-to-max.html

A theology of feelings
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/theology-of-feelings.html

When in doubt
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/when-in-doubt.html

A problem with arguments from poor design
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/problem-with-arguments-from-poor-design.html

Off with their heads!
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/02/off-with-their-heads.html

Like shooting fish in a barrel
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/like-shooting-fish-in-barrel.html

Dying young and living large
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/dying-young-and-living-large.html

Hansel & Gretel apologetics
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/hansel-gretel-apologetics.html

The Forbidden City
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/forbidden-city.html

Any steeples in Peoples?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/any-steeples-in-peoples.html

Words of light and life
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/words-of-light-and-life.html

Bluffing death
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/bluffing-death.html

The Last Enemy
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/last-enemy.html

Saying good-bye
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/saying-good-bye.html

Preliminary review of Horton's systematic theology
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/preliminary-review-of-hortons.html

OT hell
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/11/ot-hell.html

Flying pigshttp://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/flying-pigs.html

What Should Christians Make Of UFOs?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-should-christians-make-of-ufos.html

Till death do us part?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2011/01/till-death-do-us-part.html

Self-denial and self-preservation
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/12/self-denial-and-self-preservation.html

How mere is "mere Christianity"?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-mere-is-mere-christianity.html

The irrelevance of evidence to atheism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/12/irrelevance-of-evidence-to-atheism.html

Charity for me, but not for thee!
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/12/charity-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html

Rabbit ears
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/12/rabbit-ears.html

The life of the mother
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/12/life-of-mother.html

Paint-by-numbers piety
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/12/paint-by-numbers-piety.html

Fictive evil
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/11/fictive-evil.html


The All-seeing Watchmaker
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/11/all-seeing-watchmaker.html

Preaching the gospel
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/10/preaching-gospel.html

"33,000 Protestant denominations"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/09/33000-protestant-denominations.html

The human face of God
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/08/human-face-of-god.html

The fate of Judas
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/08/fate-of-judas.html

Typology And Simplistic Skepticism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/08/typology-and-simplistic-skepticism.html

Craig, Calvinism, and Molinism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/06/craig-calvinism-and-molinism.html

Brainless Atheism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/07/brainless-atheism.html

Neal on TCD
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/07/neal-on-tcd.html

A Reply To John Loftus On Chapter 4 Of The Christian Delusion
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/07/reply-to-john-loftus-on-chapter-4-of.html

Religious trends
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/07/religious-trends.html

James Anderson on Sola Scriptura
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/05/james-anderson-on-sola-scriptura.html

A Poor Man's Delilah
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/05/poor-mans-delilah.html

Childlike Dependence On A Church Hierarchy
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/05/childlike-dependence-on-church.html

Providence & evil
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/05/providence-evil.html

Reunion
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/05/reunion.html

The Argonautica
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/05/argonautica.html

The temptation of Adam
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/05/temptation-of-adam.html

The authorship of Hebrews
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/05/authorship-of-hebrews.html

Disturbing possible side-effects of conditional security
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/04/disturbing-possible-side-effects-of.html

Loving the damned
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/04/loving-damned.html

Deduction, Induction, TAG and Certainty
reformedapologist.blogspot.com/2010/04/deduction-certainty.html

Answering back to Arminians
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/04/answering-back-to-arminians.html

Clark Quick Quote
http://godshammer.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/clark-quick-quote-7/

Science and Health with Key to the Scripturalists
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/03/science-and-health-with-key-to.html

Van Til, Bahnsen, Logic and TAG
http://reformedapologist.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-us-only-thing-of-great-significance.html

On councils and scriptures
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-councils-and-scriptures.html

"Abba! Father!"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/02/abba-father.html

"Dominion"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/02/dominion.html

Rightly using the ordinary means of grace
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/02/rightly-using-ordinary-means-of-grace.html

Lourdes & Fatima
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/02/lourdes-fatima.html

Catholicism and restorationism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/01/catholicism-and-restorationism.html

Principles of sola Scriptura
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/01/principles-of-sola-scriptura.html

Water seeks its own level
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/01/water-seeks-its-own-level.html

The "Anomalies" Of Papias
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/01/anomalies-of-papias.html

Water seeks its own level
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2010/01/water-seeks-its-own-level.html

What's an internal critique?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-internal-critique.html

The Immaculate Conception
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/12/immaculate-conception.html

The Nature Of Biblical Prophecy Fulfillment
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/11/nature-of-biblical-prophecy-fulfillment.html

Is religion maladaptive?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/11/is-religion-maladaptive.html

Empirical evidence for God
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/11/empirical-evidence-for-god.html

"Refutation of James White"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/11/refutation-of-james-white.html

Are there few that be saved?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/are-there-few-that-be-saved.html

Clarkian confusions
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/clarkian-confusions.html


Gut-reactive theological method
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/gut-reactive-theological-method.html

Reppert on retribution
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/reppert-on-retribution.html

The skeptical conundrum
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/skeptical-conundrum.html

Twisse on supralapsarianism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/twisse-on-supralapsarianism.html

Whence then Calvinism?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/whence-then-calvinism.html

Worshiping Dr. Manhattan
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/worshiping-dr-manhattan.html

In God's nursery
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/in-gods-nursery.html

Home sweet home
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/home-sweet-home.html

The sin unto death
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/sin-unto-death.html

Better to love and lose than never love at all
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/better-to-love-and-lose-than-never-love.html

Jesus Christ Superstar
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/10/jesus-christ-superstar.html

Kicking at the goads
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/kicking-at-goads.html

"Worse than Hitler"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/worse-than-hitler.html

Freakasaurus, One Million Years B.C.
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/freakasaurus-one-million-years-bc.html

Life in the face of death
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/life-in-face-of-death.html

Petitionary prayer and accidental necessity
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/petitionary-prayer-and-accidental.html

Giving the devil his due
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/giving-devil-his-due.html

Placebos & cures
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/placebos-cures.html

The Good Samaritan
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/good-samaritan.html

Fair as the moon
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/fair-as-moon.html

The neo-Manicheans
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/neo-manicheans.html

Channeling the dark side
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/channeling-dark-side.html

Better to love and lose than never love at all
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/09/better-to-love-and-lose-than-never-love.html

The Mismeasure of Man
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/08/mismeasure-of-man.html

Evil
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/08/evil.html

Is God the cause of evil?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-god-cause-of-evil.html

The authorship of Adam's sin
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/07/authorship-of-adams-sin.html

Why I'm a "Calminian" by Craig Blomberg
www.koinoniablog.net/2009/07/why-i-am-a-calminian-by-craig-blomberg.html

The noseeum assumption
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/07/noseeum-assumption.html

A Common Error Among Calvinists - Rationalism At Its Worst
reformedapologist.blogspot.com/2009/07/common-error-among-calvinists.html

Michael Medved Is Wrong About Polygamy
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/07/michael-medved-is-wrong-about-polygamy.html

Open Letter to a World of Believerscommonsenseatheism.com/?p=2637

Paul's Conversion
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/07/pauls-conversion.html

"Hell, Calvinism, and those wretched Dwarfs"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/06/hell-calvinism-and-those-wretched.html

Cogent Arguments
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/cogent-arguments.html

The Death of Christian Apologetics
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/death-of-christian-apologetics.html

Adam & Eve as mulattos
http://firstword.us/2009/06/adam-eve-as-mulattos/

On Recent Debate Losses to William Lane Craig
http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2009/05/on-recent-debate-losses-to-william-lane.html

Empiricism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/empiricism.html

Love Lost
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/love-lost.html

Did John Robbins know anything?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/did-john-robbins-know-anything.html

Scripturalism's Three-card Monte
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/scripturalisms-three-card-monte.html

Scripturalist Metaphysics of Personhood
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/scripturalist-metaphysics-of-personhood.html

Conditional election and apostasy
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/conditional-election-and-apostasy.html

The fall of Lucifer
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/05/fall-of-lucifer.html

You're dethpicable!
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/youre-dethpicable.html

Is Scripturalism Scriptural?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/is-scripturalism-scriptural.html

The sinful Savior?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/sinful-savior.html

A Green Stye
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/green-stye.html

Praying for the past
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/praying-for-past.html

Vantillian Shadow Boxing – Round One
godshammer.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/vantillian-shadow-boxing-round-one/

Reformed cessationism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/reformed-cessationism.html

Miracles: now and then
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/miracles-now-and-then.html

Reformed historicism or Reformed cessationism?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/reformed-historicism-or-reformed.html

Praying for the past
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/praying-for-past.html

The authorship of evil
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/authorship-of-evil.html

The ice cream parlor at the edge of the alternate world
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/ice-cream-parlor-at-edge-of-alternate.html

Miracles and methodological naturalism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/miracles-and-methodological-naturalism.html

The sinful Savior?http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/04/sinful-savior.html

Old-earth creationism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/03/old-earth-creationism.html

Saving babies or preaching the gospel?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/02/saving-babies-or-preaching-gospel.html

Bell, book, & candle
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/02/bell-book-candle.html

I Chose to Write This Post
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-chose-to-write-this-post.html

The Naked Public Square
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/01/naked-public-square.html

A = A: Rand = Hack Philosopher
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/01/a-rand-hack-philosopher.html

Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities: Reviewed
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/01/arminian-theology-myths-and-realities.html

The historicity of Jonah
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/01/historicity-of-jonah.html

Bad Intentions
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2009/01/bad-intentions.html

On free will, part 1: a simple argument for divine determinism
bnonn.thinkingmatters.org.nz/on-free-will-part-1/

Luke's Census
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/12/lukes-census.html

Pest control
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/12/pest-control.html

Culture Warrior Atheists
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/12/culture-warrior-atheists.html

Is God's will bifurcated?
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-gods-will-bifurcated.html

Jeremy Pierce on the glory of God
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/12/jeremy-pierce-on-glory-of-god.html

The free offer of the gospel
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/12/free-offer-of-gospel.html

Probability & Inexcusability
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/11/probability-inexcusability.html

The Mother of Pearly-Gates
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/09/mother-of-pearly-gates.html

Thinking Biblically: A Basic Introduction to Presuppositionalism
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/08/thinking-biblically-basic-introduction.html

Time Present & Time Past
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/10/time-present-time-past.html

If I make my bed in hellhttp://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/10/if-i-make-my-bed-in-hell.html

The lesser of two weevils
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/09/lesser-of-two-weevils.html

Damned if you do, and damned if you don't
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/05/damned-if-you-do-and-damned-if-you-dont.html

Riverrun
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2007/10/riverrun.html

"Middle Knowledge, Truth-Makers, and the 'Grounding Objection'"
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2007/09/middle-knowledge-truth-makers-and.html

On the “Appropriate” Apologetic Method
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-appropriate-apologetic-method.html

Mary Mnemonic
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2007/07/mary-mnemonic.html

The only true God
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2007/07/only-true-god.html

Teach us to number our days
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2007/07/teach-us-to-number-our-days.html

The Flemming-Turk Debate, A Quick Look Back
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2006/05/flemming-turk-debate-quick-look-back.html

Gordon Clark-1
http://triablogue.blogspot.com/2005/06/gordon-clark-1.html

Addressing the Mind-Brain Dependence Problem

A common argument used by atheists to argue for the inference of the non-existence of God is the apparent non-existence of the human spirit. Since most of the major forms of theism assumes that human beings have spirits, and since human spirits are supposed to be able to think and experience consciousness apart from the body, the fact that human consciousness can be affected by or be (temporarily or permanently) extinguished due to physical sleep, or drugs (e.g. anesthesia, alcohol, LSD), or head trauma or cerebral diseases would suggest that humans don't have spirits. If humans don't have spirits, then God who is supposed to also be a spirit similar to human spirits (of which human spirits are derivative, dependent and ontologically inferior to) may also not exist.

Let's use a more specific example. When a patient is going to have an operation and anesthesia is administered to him, why does the patient completely lose consciousness until the application of anesthesia is stopped?

How could Christians answer such a a challenge? Here's my personal preliminary answer. While there are a minority of Christian scholars, apologists and philosophers who are materialists or physicalists when it comes to human nature, historically Christians have believed in mind-body dualism. That humans have both a physical and spiritual (i.e. immaterial) aspect to them. Some Christians hold to a trichotomous anthropology (of 1. spirit, 2. soul, 3. body) while others hold to a dichotomous anthropology (of 1. spirit/soul, 2. body). For the purposes of this discussion, I'll assume (my preferred position) that human beings are a dichotomy. For all I know the "soul" is the effect or emanation (for lack of better words) of the interaction of the spirit and body (but admittedly this is just speculation). In some Christian circles trichotomy is the majority report. However, dichotomy is the preferred position taken by most scholarly Christian theologians, apologists and philosophers. I won't go into the issues of whether the spirit of a human is a mind or whether the mind is merely a faculty of the human spirit etc. (with all the variations and permutational possibilities).

To answer the challenge, I would say that it's possible that the interaction between the spirit of human beings and their physical bodies might be analogous to wearing strap on binoculars or night vision goggles. By wearing them, one's abilities are both enhanced and curtailed. On the one hand, one's ability to see distant objects or to see objects in near perfect darkness is enhanced, yet on the other hand one's peripheral vision is diminished. Assuming the goggles are strapped onto a person's head so that it's virtually "glued" to their eyes, if the goggles get damaged so that they no longer function as they were designed to, then the person wearing the goggles could entirely lose all ability to see. Say for example that the batteries of the goggles dies or the goggles get accidentally crushed. So long as the goggles are strapped onto the person's head, the person is, for all intents and purposes blind.

Similarly, the spiritual mind of man might be such that when properly interacting with the human brain it's possible for the mind to also interact with the physical world (corresponding to enhanced abilities while wearing goggles). However, if the brain get's damaged, then the experience of consciousness might also be affected. This could explain why it's possible to lose consciousness during sleep, or due to head trauma or exposure to anesthesia (corresponding to curtailed abilities while wearing goggles). It may be that only when the human spirit is completely severed from it's normal connection to the body (i.e. at death) does the spiritual mind of a human being become able to experience consciousness apart from the limiting influence of the brain. This might be the explanation as to why people who claim to have had Out of Body Experiences (OBE) in conjunction with Near Death Experiences (NDE) also claim that their consciousness and awareness of themselves, others and their environment was enhanced and broadened/widened during the experience, but ceased when their bodies and/or brains were revived. There are instances of people who were born blind but claim to have had near death experiences where after their spirit had left their body, they were able to see for the first time (at least that's what they suspect they were able to do and their descriptions seems to match the process of vision). See for example these links
Here, Here, Here, Here, Here and Here.
 
Admittedly, all analogies break down eventually. Nevertheless, I think one can see how this analogy could account for all the data of the physical world and still maintain the traditional understanding of Christian anthropology which teaches that humans also have spirits which can experience consciousness apart from brains. This is similar to angels and demons who are, according to various theistic religions, also unembodied spirits with minds and consciousnesses. But whose spiritual ontology may be different than the ontology of human spirits. According to Christian theology, human spirits are meant to be connected to their human bodies. So much so that even Christians in heaven who are enjoying the blessedness of heaven nevertheless patiently wait for their resurrection bodies and know that their current disembodied state is unnatural.

It might be argued that the analogy I gave above doesn't really work because the person who continues to wear the broken goggles can still see through his eyes. He's just seeing "black" because the goggles aren't working. Sight is still occurring, even though he can't see anything. Whereas under anesthesia the person isn't experiencing any consciousness at all, not merely limited consciousness. But that misses the point of the analogy which was to show how the faculty of one system could be limited by its connection to another system.

Here's another analogy that might be better. It's possible to have two separate computers that can both perform a particular function separately, but which can perform the function along with other functions when they are networked together. Yet, if one starts malfunctioning, it's possible for the other computer to also malfunction so long as it continues to be connected to the other computer via a network; but which will start working properly again once the connection is severed.

Think of two computers (say computer A and B) that each have their own printers (printers A and B). Printer A prints only black and white and printer B prints color (along with black and white), but neither can fax. Then there's a third printer, printer C which only prints black and white but can also fax when it shares a connection with both computer A and B through a network. It's possible for computers A and B to not be able to print from printers A and B so long as they are networked and set to print only through printer C. It might be the case that only and until the network is disconnected can computer B (analogous to the soul or spirit of a human) print color from printer B. However, printer B cannot fax (analogous to interacting with the physical world) even though it can print better pictures in color (analogous to the enhanced consciousness experienced by those claiming to have had NDE). According to Christian theology, after the resurrection, Christians will possess both benefits. Both the advantage of having a physical body AND having an enhanced consciousness because of their resurrection (i.e. glorified) bodies.

Some might say that using this analogy would entail that the human brain could function (at least in a limited fashion) apart from a connection to the spirit. But that wouldn't be completely contradictory to Christianity. While most modern Christians and non-Christians have thought that only humans could have souls, previous generations of Christian theologians and philosophers have been willing to grant the possibility that some animals have souls even if they don't have spirits. It was really only due to the influence of René Descartes did Christians start questioning and then eventually denying that animals could have souls and consciousness. Even J.P. Moreland admits this in the first 3 minutes of his lecture "Evidence for the Existence of the Soul." We also have strong indications that certain animals have some reasoning ability even though they don't have spirits. For example, it's been said (rightly or wrongly) that the famous gorilla Koko is able to understand more than 1,000 signs based on American Sign Language, and understand approximately 2,000 words of spoken English. Also, some studies suggest some monkeys can do simple arithmetic. There are also anecdotal stories of how some people who were beheaded during the French Revolution were able to respond up to 30 seconds after being decapitated. I mention these things to say that there's nothing inherently contradictory to Christianity to say that it's possible for the human brain to produce something like consciousness apart from a connection to a spirit for a limited amount of time; if such a thing could even occur. But even then, in the case of decapitation, the connection between the 1. spirit and 2. body and/or brain may not be disconnected immediately upon the separation of the head from the body. The connection between the spirit and the brain may continue until the brain itself completely shuts down due to lack of oxygen and other nutrients. In which case, it might have been the case that the human spirit of people remained connected to the brain for 30 or more seconds after they were decapitated. Therefore the objection really has no sting to it.

By the way, I have been in office situations where something similar to the above analogy was the case. A computer may have a program that alone could open a specific file type, but which needed another computer it was connected to through a network to be able to print because that other computer had the program to operate the printer. So, in order to perform certain tasks, both computers needed each other.

Is God Active in the World Today? Gary Habermas Interview MP3 Audio

Habermas gives 6 reasons for why God is still active in the world today.

http://www.apologetics315.com/2009/07/is-god-active-in-world-today-gary.html

Beyond the Big Bang lecture by William Lane Craig

https://youtu.be/gNma5z3-nCI

This lecture is slightly out-dated because it was given a while back. Nevertheless it's an informative lecture by Craig and displays his knowledge of modern cosmology. This is clearly one of his best lectures.

The Evidence for God lecture by William Lane Craig

 

https://youtu.be/KbbE8ZLzcRk

Ten Presuppositions of Science

 Here is a list of some of the presuppositions of science:

(1) the existence of a theory-independent, external world;

(2) the orderly nature of the external world;

(3) the knowability of the external world;

(4) the existence of truth;

(5) the laws of logic;

(6) the reliability of our cognitive and sensory faculties to serve as truth gatherers and as a source of justified true beliefs in our intellectual environment;

(7) the adequacy of language to describe the world;

(8) the existence of values used in science (e.g., "test theories fairly and report test results honestly");

(9) the uniformity of nature and induction;

(10) the existence of numbers.1


 

1. William Lane Craig & J.P. Moreland, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003), pp. 348.

List taken from: http://www.apologetics315.com/2011/03/ten-presuppositions-of-science.html
or here: http://www.apologetics315.com/2014/04/ten-presuppositions-of-science.html


I've adapted, added and modified the list in the following way:

Here is a list of some of the presuppositions of science:
(1) the existence of a theory-independent, external world;
(2) the orderly nature of the external world;
(3) the knowability of the external world;
(4) the existence of truth;
(5) the laws of logic;
(6) the [general] reliability of our cognitive and sensory faculties to serve as truth gatherers/identifiers and as a source of justified true beliefs in our intellectual environment;
(7) the adequacy of language to describe the world;
(8) the existence of values used in science (e.g., "test theories fairly and report test results honestly");
(9) the [presumed] uniformity of nature and [propriety of the use of the principle of] induction;
(10) causation
(11) the existence (or at least usefulness) of numbers. Given atheism, it's a strange "Happy Coincidence" that nature is so very much structured on mathematics that physicists can make predictions about the universe which are later confirmed empirically. Whereas, given the existence of God it makes perfect sense that God would create the physical world mathematically, and intellectually/rationally accessible.


As J.P. Moreland has said, "The claim that you can only know things through the methods of science is not itself something that you can know through the methods of science." He gives the example of the sentence "There are no sentences longer than three words", as a self-refuting claim.

Science has presuppositions or axioms like those above which cannot themselves be proven scientifically but must be assumed [almost like "faith"] in order for science to be done [i.e. to even begin]. These assumptions and the subscription to them make sense in theism [especially in Christianity], but the various atheistic worldviews have difficulty grounding such axioms. Most atheists live by "faith" (so to speak) when they operate with these working/operating assumptions.

 

https://youtu.be/3vnjNbe5lyE

William Lane Craig responding to Peter Atkins' virtual scientism

List of books that demonstrate the limits of Science as a method of acquiring knowledge:

The Philosophy of Science and Belief in God by Gordon H. Clark (highly recommended)

Mathematics: the Loss of Certainty by Morris Kline

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell

Unity, Identity, and Explanation in Aristotle's Metaphysics

The Mystery of the Trinity by R. C. Sproul (videos)

Monotheism
http://youtu.be/40m1KJkppC8

The Biblical Witness
http://youtu.be/md4cLMu9vGk

Early Controversies
http://youtu.be/5ZJKigh5Lkc

Fifth Century Heresies
http://youtu.be/Kg0kjFjTW4o

Contradiction vs Mistery
http://youtu.be/cdaFL6FGk1E

One in Essence
http://youtu.be/Xkil_976Byo