Thanks for coming by and commenting! You’re absolutely right. All scholarship brings a whole host of unproven assumptions to the table, but it seems like those without faith assume that they have no assumptions. Baloney.

This is very interesting - I was blogging on this the other day and the way in which secular biblical scholars always want to assume that their studies are superior because they are from a secular standpoint and not a faith standpoint. Personally I don’t see the difference! Pete

An excellent post.

I didn’t read the article by Harris; I think I’d get too irritated.

However, because I have read Willard’s “The faith of unbelief”, I was able to engage with the 10 points in ways I otherwise would not.

Fully true, atheism, or any metaphysical position for that matter, has its inconsistencies. Reason alone will never prove, concretely and indubitably, that which it intends to.

Once again, the greatest disappointment with my philosophical studies at the university is the laughable idea that only cerebral knowledge is credible, as if we can somehow quarantine the rest of our faculties (soul?, emotions, factoring in experience, etc.) and function from the intellect only. Rubbish.

Again, an excellent post.