Friday, May 30, 2008

Conversations with unbelief (Part 6)

I've been swamped and distracted, but I have something here that was interesting.

Unbelief comes in many forms and I'm aware of that, but this was an unusual one even for me. I have a video on "junk DNA" on youtube and a woman commented on it about her apparent belief in what we will call the "alien or fallen-angel seed theory". Where-by the race of mankind is seeded by aliens which were "mistaken" to be angels and deities. If that is not a blatant attempt at replacing religion of supernatural with that of a natural one I don't know what is.

In conversation I was pleased to be able to use a bit of presuppositional apologetics and its effect was that of an a-bomb. The discussion ended with, "Please don't send me any notes. I don't believe in your Myth of God or Christ. So spare yourself the time and energy." I wouldn't say this was a good ending, but the approach certainly hit the mark as accurate as a sniper and this harsh severing of the discussion was evidence of it. So I wanted to share some of the dialogue to share what this looks like in a conversation instead of just "on paper".

The overall plan in this approach is to show how nothing can be known with confidence apart from a belief in God. A belief in God is essential to drawing any conclusions at all. It can then be argued quite well that the God of the bible is the only one that makes sense, is logically consistent. A more specific version of this is the "transcendental argument for God" and like this it removes any ability to fight out of the opponent unlike the many other arguments for Gods existence.

So there it is "on paper" and in brief the post below is the ending dialogue of the above mentioned discussion. We barely broke into the talk before she refused to go further. So this is just broaching the topics themselves.

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