Podcast 43: Douglas Groothuis, 1 of 2

by Jonathan McKeen on September 20, 2011

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DouglasGroothuis joins Theo Warner and Alan Terlep to discuss a document that he wrote in 2003, The Christian Apologist Manifesto. Groothuis shares:
* What drove him to write it
* What the Christian world view actually is
* What “The waning influence of the Christian worldview on public and private life” means
* What anti-intellectualism means, and some examples of it
* Whether the Discovery Institute is an example of intellectualism or anti-intellectualism
* What it means to have faith in a non-fideistic Christianity

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  • Anonymous

    I really cared nothing for the original discussion on apologetics: I’m not really bothered by Christians trying to rationalise their irrational claims, let them try that, let them write books for the non-believers and troll the internets without apologising.

    But when it got to “Darwinism” and even the Expelled absurdity, I realised: all this talk about reason and truth, about providing evidence, etc. – even up unto denying the importance of faith – was precisely an ettempt to rationalise the fact that Douglas Groothuis chooses his beliefs he holds exclusively on the basis of faith – what “feels” right to him. For him intellectualism is the ability to treat seriously things for which there is none or little evidence and to intellectually discount all evidence for the counterproposition while truth is an unquestioning acceptance of Christian faith-claims and mind-games.

    Sigh.

  • J. Paul

    8DX, some how you seem to be misconstruing Groothuis’ facts with “feelings.”

    1. Information requires intelligence.
    2. Information exists.
    3. Since information exists, then intelligence must exist.

  • J. Paul

    Looks like the link is broken to part 2 of 2.

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