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Claim: “Atheism is a new Religion”

December 29, 2019December 29, 2019 by Dave

Article in Dawn claims that Atheism is a religion. With such a click-bait headline I could not resist diving in to demolish it.

Can you Prove Jesus with Bayes Theorem?

August 2, 2019July 19, 2019 by Dave

Can you take a statistical tool such as Bayes Theorem and calculate meaningful answers to religious questions such as “Is there a God?“, “Did Jesus exist?“, or “Did Jesus rise from the dead?“. It has been tried, people really will deploy this approach. When challenged they often exclaim “You can’t argue with the maths, it … Read more

Does Josh McDowell have Evidence That Demands a Verdict?

April 23, 2023June 14, 2018 by Dave

The Christian Post has published an article by Josh McDowell in which he makes some amazing claims. For example he cites the existence of Forensic evidence that Jesus Rose from the dead. Normally I’d roll my eyes at stuff like this and then move on, but I’m pausing for two reasons to take a closer look. … Read more

Fraudlent Islamic Claim – Professor Kroner confirms Qu’ran is scientific

June 6, 2019August 15, 2011 by Dave

There exists a modern claim that the Qu’ran contains verses that describe things known only to modern science, but since it was all written 1400 years ago when such things were unknown then “Allah did it”. Challenge this and ask for the best example and you usually are given a poetical phrase which has been quote-mined and twisted out of context to enable some modern thinking to be retro fitted in.