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I put this discussion on the DC boards.  Semantics, not apologetics. I'm going try one more time to explain my beef. There is a dif...

It occurs to me that Loftus's attempt to define faith as necessarily irrational , and his OTF, can't be combined.  I take it one ...

A: Think of a religion that you think of as harmful or cult-like-- Think of how you see that religion. Do you think members of those faiths...

Here is the blog. Miksa argues that the OTF, properly interpreted, supports theism, supernaturalism, and intelligent design. The central ...

Actually, the underlying idea of the OTF is perfectly legitimate, in that, it is frequently useful to, as a thought experiment, imagine ones...

Jesse, I think there's an important point, and that is, "Who's the outsider?" Now, if we take the word "outsider...

Parrish's critique is linked from the title. Thrasymachus' is linked here . Now, I'm not going to make the argument that since...

 The OTF is couched in terms of avoiding DOUBLE standards. It seems pretty clear to me that you can avoid double standards and be a Christia...

The contemporary atheist is a creature of Christian culture. They have already interacted with it and responded in one particular way. So I ...

This is a combox exchange between Loftus, whose comments are in italics, and Matt Flannagan, whose comments are not italicized.  I think th...

No surprise, the discussion ends up focusing on the OTF. HT: Steve Hays.

This discussion, on the whole, went rather better than most I have had over there, even though it begins with typical Loftus-style bluster. ...

Thomas Talbott has written a detailed critique of the Outsider Test for faith. I've been long convinced that the discussion of the OTF n...

Something tells me, deep down in the pit of my stomach, the Loftus isn't going to buy this.

I think I'm getting a little more engagement from John that usual.  1) You are avoiding the question of what would constitute "m...

No John, you're missing the point. What we have is a failure to communicate. In my view the question of who "I" would be in an...

First of all, let's get something clear. There can be truth-favoring accidents of birth. I have a much better chance of knowing the trut...

From a comment by Chris on the Secular Outpost: A naturalist/atheist views all of the above in an entirely consistent manner: none of it i...

As someone who abandoned Christian soteriological exclusivism in 1974, and as someone who has at least universalist sympathies, I can assure...

Apparently one of the big issues that will be important in the next campaign is American Exceptionalism. Does Obama really believe that Amer...