Three Apologetics Videos

Please excuse the lack of substantive posts lately. I’ve been busy doing clean up work in the aftermath of Pale Blue Scratch’s release. Things will be back to normal soon…whatever that means.

My friend Ben Smith did a series of talks/lectures on philosophy and basic apologetics. I haven’t listened these all the way through, but so far I like them. I used to be super keen on evidentialist apologetics, but I’ve since moved on from it. I think some of the presuppositions (pun intended) of the movement, like that we could reason someone into a proper belief, is totally off, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t some use for it. I’m not about to tell you what your interests should or shouldn’t be, with respect to what God has given you.

I think the best use of apologetics is to bring about a kind of null set: pomped-up goofs who think material reasoning is a reliable method of determining metaphysical truths should conclude that their presuppositions aren’t all that grand if similar reasoning can conclude opposite propositions. By redirecting their own methods against them, it can make it obvious to discerning minds, who happen to eavesdropping, that the naturalists’ case isn’t closed by any means. “Obvious” is relative here—the fact there are reasonable (heh) counterarguments at all hints at a crumbling foundation of assumptions, but admitting that is hard when you have so much invested in your own intelligence.