Christian apologetics and defending Matthew's guards
There's something meta going on when a Christian apologist takes aim at a biblical account of mine with some typical apologetics, claiming I am making stuff up out of whole cloth
Dave Armstrong
A collection of 25 posts
God, Floods, Miracles and Evidence
I have been dipping my toes into the calm waters of the flood again - Noah's Flood. TL;DR - it didn't happen. It's an argument about
Chiasms, Multiple Sources, Armstrong, and Chasms in Rationality
Welcome to another episode of "Brandolini's Law Exemplified", your friendly programming that has to put in all the effort where others don't. I wrote an article on
Armstrong, the Genesis Flood Contradictions and Multiple Sources
Oh, David Armstrong. David, David David. I will try to be as cordial as possible here but please excuse me if I let off some rhetorical steam at times. I recently posted a
Apologies for Calling Armstrong "Disingenuous"***
Dave Armstrong very kindly retracted some of the rhetorical flourishes in one of his recent pieces. We are both surely victim to such, and it is something I must shy away from. He
Exodus Sidebar: Pitch - You Wouldn't Let It Lie!
https://youtu.be/0vECGh9hY68?t=20 Ah, dag nam it. You wouldn't let it lie, Armstrong. You wouldn't let it lie! ;) Okay, I'll spare you all the
Exodus Sidebar: The Final Pitch Battle
As part of my debunking the Exodus series, I've been involved in a prolonged debate with Dave Armstrong, in particular, regarding…pretty much everything I have stated. Let me give you
Exodus Sidebar: More on Moses and Sargon
I think that Dave Armstrong believes that the purpose of my existence is merely to answer his articles that he writes against me. I hate to burst his bubble, but I have other
Exodus Sidebar: Refuting Armstrong's "Refutation" on Pitch (but Oddly Not Sargon...)
Oh David, David, David. David "I love science as much as any atheist" Armstrong likes to see himself as the white knight, tackling my "screeds" articles and refuting them.
Debating the Unequal Evidence Problem Again (IV): Concluding Remarks
A very quick synopsis so far in this debate initially with Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong and then carried on by Catholic Paul Hoffer. Please read the previous pieces for context. This will be
Do We All Have "Sufficient" Evidence to Believe?
This piece will in some sense be a linguistic piece, and in other senses will have quite a big theological impact. I have been having an ongoing argument over whether or not God
Debating the Unequal Evidence Problem Again (Doubting Thomas Revisited)
Some of you may remember the recent spat I had with Dave Armstrong and others concerning Doubting Thomas and the fact that, if that account is true and there is an unequal distribution