See my other reply.

https://lutherwasnotbornagaincom.wordpress.com/2025/12/10/the-ghost-buster-apologetic-technique-another-evangelical-apologist-bites-the-dust/

Have a nice day,
Gary

No. It was too crappy to bother with even when it came out, and now it’s so obsolete as to be irrelevant.

Lowder already covered it well enough.

Have you reviewed ‘I don’t have enough Faith to be an Atheist’ by Dr.Frank Turek? Be interesting to hear your views on his approach to albeit some classical arguments (because much of apologetics is arguing a historical event besides ongoing debates on the science of creation) but with more meat on the bones. Also presentations by Sye Garte, ex atheist bio chemist on abiogenesis.

Hundreds of people would. So I would need a reason to debate you specifically. Because otherwise it would be redundant and thus unnecessary. I’ve already debated the existence of God from nearly every conceivable angle. See the “debates” category dropdown menu (and that’s just for the last ten years; my debates go back twenty).

There is more gatekeeping in lower schools because they house kids rather than adults and thus parents have more control over censoring what their kids are exposed to, just as they do in the home. They of course abuse this privilege, but then so do they do that at home as well. This dynamic does not exist in colleges. Nor is it to be envied by colleges. The solution is not to replicate the abuse, but to end it.

I might be the only person who thinks this but I got the impression over the past year or so that there is more gatekeeping at lower level schools (high school, etc.) than there is at Princeton or Yale. It isn’t the background check thing either (even my undergrad requires those just to clean toilets) but a seeming ignorance of how actual teachers are supposed to teach. In other words, secondary schools are looking, in large part, for babysitters whereas universities want actual teachers trained in X field. I’ll come clean and say that I don’t oppose people teaching CRT in public high schools so long as the person teaching it has a degree in philosophy or at least sociology rather than a B.S. (pun intended) in education.

I think if Catholic schools can’t realize that it lost the intellectual property rights to the Bible back during the Reformation, then we should join hands with Calvin and say that we are the “elect”. That might sound pretentious, but we’re talking about a church that had pregnant mothers burned alive for teaching their kids the Bible, a fact certainly ignored in any Catholic school curriculum.

I really feel like the guy from Plato’s Cave who couldn’t convince his fellow prisoners to come outside and see the sunshine.

Yeah, I’d be worried about that as an academic freedom issue. The issue shouldn’t be some a priori statement of agenda or beliefs, it should be whether someone can act rationally. We all have areas where we have beliefs that are controversial or unpopular or may not be as well-founded as would be ideal, no one is perfect, and I wouldn’t want to settle some issue in advance.

It’s a shitty thing that so many of the most discriminatory people and bad actors in the world can’t ethically be shown their own medicine, an issue I was just thinking about tonight in the context of Tucker Carlson, but that is the unfortunate reality.

But I do think we could as a society do more to deal with the kind of prestige economies and abuse of systems that allow people like professors to effectively be inexcusably bad at their jobs without any consequence.