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This is the old blog site, powered by a simple blogging system called Blosxom. It's here to keep old links from breaking, and for whatever historic interest might remain.
Here's the current site.
Dean Esmay linked a while back to a creation/evolution rant on a site called Clubbeaux. The rant was evidently inspired as part of a general atheism debate that got nasty somewhat quickly. After lots of accusations and some apologies, Clubbeaux's latest word on the fracas is this postmortem.
Some good came of it; Steven Den Beste has written an excellent article out of this that shows how atheism is no more provable than theism, and also discusses several responses to theistic proofs for God. Coincidentally (or perhaps not, given the strange way my mind works), Dave Weinberger posted some thought about humanism and "scientism" that tied in to the whole theme well.
It's late, and I need to hit the sack, so my deep thoughts will need to wait. But before I go, I need to harp on a lesson we all need to be reminded of, me included.
We don't need to defend the Gospel in these kinds of debates. There's really not much atheists, of either of Den Beste's types, can do to it to "tarnish" it. The intellectual arguments against God need to be met and vanquished, but beyond that, we shouldn't get all angry when people disagree with us, even if they do so in a vulgar and ugly manner. As we learned with this incident, violent reactions end up doing as much damage, if not more.
Regardless, we are all fallible and in need of forgiveness, a fact that Clubbeaux himself has recognized. I've added Clubbeaux to my aggregator, and defended him against some of the invective. (He's showed up here, too; I hope he comes back.) Should I lose my head in this manner, I hope he can remind me of his own battle scars and lead me back to reason.
May 08, 2003 | Comments are no longer available