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To people who claim "there's no evidence for God/)
Topic Started: Feb 8 2006, 08:00 PM (68 Views)
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I hear this often: "There's no evidence for God/Christianity."

A statement like this can either mean two things: 1) There has been no evidence offered for the truth of God's existence and Christianity OR 2) All evidence that has been put forth has failed.

Since 1 is obviously false, I assume that most people who make this claim nowadays mean 2.

If you think that all the evidence that has been presented fails, then that must mean you must be familiar with the evidence presented to come to the conclusion that it fails.

So, people who claim that there is no good evidence for God or Christianity must be familiar with the alleged evidence for it to come to the conclusion that there isn't any good evidence.

Now, it would be irrational and absurd to say that every non-Christian needed to read every pro-Christian book in existence to keep his worldview, just like it would be irrational and absurd to think every Christian needs to read every anti-Christian book to keep his worldview.

So, people who think that there is no evidence for God/Christianity, I implore you to tell me why you thought any ONE of the following was not up to par

Two Dozen (or so) Theistic Proofs by Alvin Plantinga
Scaling the Secular City: a Defense of Christianity by J.P. Moreland
Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics by William Lane Craig
To Everyone an Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview edited by Beckwith, Craig, and Moreland
A Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions by Peter Kreeft and Ronald Tacelli
Intellectuals Don't Need God & Other Modern Myths by Allister McGrath
Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland & William Lane Craig
Warranted Christian Belief by Alvin Plantinga
God, Reason and Theistic Proofs by Stephen Davis
Does God Exist?: The Debate Between Theists & Atheists by J. P. Moreland & Kai Nielson
Does God Exist?: The Craig-Flew Debate edited by Stan Wallace
God? A Debate Between a Christian and an Atheist by William Lane Craig and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
God: The Evidence by Patrick Glynn
I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist by Norman Geisler
Can A Smart Person Believe in God? by Michael Guillen
Who Made God? By Ravi Zachirias
The Existence of God by Richard Swinburne
The Coherence of Theism by Richard Swinburne
The Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Chranock
The Kalam Cosmological Argument by William Lane Craig
The Cosmological Argument From Plato to Leibniz by William Lane Craig
Theism, Atheism, & Big Bang Cosmology by William Lane Craig and Quentin Smith
The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? by F. F. Bruce
The Historical Reliability of the Gospels by Craig Blomburg
The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ by Gary Habermas
Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?: Debate Craig & Crossan edited by Paul Copan
Case for the Resurrection of Jesus by Gary Habermas
Beyond Death: Exploring the Evidence for Immortality by Gary Habermas and J.P. Moreland
Jesus' Resurrection: Debate Craig and Ludemann edited by Paul Copan
Risen Indeed: Making Sense of the Resurrection by Stephen T. Davis
The Resurrection of the Son of God by N. T. Wright

Surely someone making a grand claim like "There's no evidence for God/Christianity" would be familiar with some of the contemporary literature in the field, and know why they find it unpersuasive.
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^^
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but what if people don't believe in the bible.
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