Category: Counter Apologetics

“Infinite regression” is a topic that doesn’t come up in regular conversation, unless you are speaking to a fan of cosmological arguments. The basic premise of this apologetic is that everything is ultimately an effect of a first cause, which they believe must be God. An often sighted reason why there must be a singular… Continue reading God Given Infinite Regression

This post will attempt to express why the God of the Christian Bible is incompatible with the existence of free will. “Free will” can be a moving target in terms of meaning, so let’s open with definitions. Free will is the capacity of agents to choose. A choice is an act of selecting or making… Continue reading Why The Christian God Is Incompatible With Free Will

At its heart, the cosmological argument for God says that anything that begins to exist must have a cause. Used in conjunction with the Big Bang Theory, apologists can rightly argue that our universe seems to have a point of origin and therefore a cause. As an atheist, I tend to not believe in a… Continue reading The Cause of the Big Bang

Christians are skeptical. Christians, and theists in general, are skeptical of life arising from non-life and the universe originating from quantum fluctuations they’ve never observed. They don’t feel inclined to believe that consciousness as deep and self-aware as ours can arise through random mutations that are built upon and guided by only selective pressure. Don’t… Continue reading Asymmetrical Skepticism

Religious apologists often overlook secular reasons to be decent to our fellow man in order to make their arguments that morality can only be grounded in God. For them, I present these ten secular incentives to ground one’s morality in reason. Points one and two can be seen as a catch all and that all… Continue reading Grounding Morality in Reason

The moral argument for God requires the existence of a moral realism that can only be sustained by a deity. To argue that moral facts exist, the apologist finds commonality between himself and the nonbeliever by highlighting mutual condemnation of certain actions. Common agreement does not prove a moral fact’s existence, it only shows a… Continue reading The Apologist’s Appeal To Conditional Morality

Heaven is, by definition, perfect, but perfection varies between thousands of virgins, streets of gold, reunions with family, or disembodied nirvana. The only thing we all agree on is that the bad things we experience in life, do not occur in heaven. The only way to ensure these bad things do not occur is if… Continue reading For Heaven To Be Perfect, You Can’t Be There

Imagine you have a son mid-puberty. He appears to grow another inch every day, but his vocal cords are struggling to keep up with the man he is becoming. You’ve had the “birds and bees” talk, but whatever knowledge or values you managed to impart were filtered through the teenage mind. One day the police… Continue reading Sin Vs Crime

I got a dog the other day, his name’s Alpha. I really went all out accommodating the pooch. I made the entire house a canine playground. I put a different bowl of food in every room. I installed ramps so that every inch of furniture could be his domain. I maxed out my treat budget.… Continue reading The Parable of Alpha & Beta

The following is my personal assessment of the validity of popular apologetic arguments. The list goes from most valid to least valid. The Fine Tuning of the Universe: Could be valid, currently based on assumptions. There are a vast number of physically possible universes. A universe that would be hospitable to the appearance of life must… Continue reading God Argument Power Rankings