Reasoning With New Atheism

Topic Notes

TOPICS:

• This is where Faith and Reason meet!
• Introducing Tom Gilson, Editor of True Reason:Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism
• Tom’s story about the book
• What is New Atheism?
• The term was coined by Gary Wolfe in Wired Magazine
• New Atheism is militantly opposed to religion
• Are Christianity and Science really opposed to each other? We think not.
• 12th Century Scientists didn’t have centuries of history telling them that it’s productive to spend you time in the lab
• They studied to gain knowledge of God’s creation.
• If Christianity is so pro science, then why do Christians persecute so many scientists?
• Galileo’s story is an anomaly and had more to do with politics than with science
• What about the evidence?
• The Church encourage Copernicus to publish his book on the heliocentric view.
• What about the “Group-think” idea concerning science in the 12th century?
• If that were the case, then creativity would have been stifled… but it wasn’t!
• A BIBLE CONTRADICTION via infidels.org
  • Does God tempt?
  • Genesis 22:1 – God tempted Abraham vs James 1:13 – God does not tempt anyone
• What is the fallacy of equivocation?
• Logic plays a huge role in the argument for/against God
• New Atheism typically passes over logic
• New Atheism can often equate with Naturalism
• Naturalism can be blown away by asking “What is a thought?”
• OVERTIME!
  • Jeff’s onstage antics and their effect on the front row
  • Christianity is consistent with true reason

This show originally aired April 13th, 2014

EXTRA STUFF

Visit Thinking Christian Website
Purchase True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism by Tom Gilson and Carson Weitnauer
Visit the Ratio Christi website

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