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How John Lennox distorts the facts

Ian Robinson — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 05:37:28 +0000

This is article orginally posted in 2014. John Lennox: “Eliminating the Impossible: Can a Scientist believe the Resurrection?” ABC Religion and Ethics – Posted on 16 April 2014 https://www.abc.net.au/religion/eliminating-the-impossible-can-a-scientist-believe-the-resurrect/10099300 The Rationalist Society of Australia published the following reply on its website. Lennox’s article is not printed in full here since it is readily accessible on […]

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The Resurrection of Jesus: Explaining the Historical Facts

James Fodor — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 01:50:42 +0000

Christianity stands or falls on the historical events surrounding the first Easter. If there was no resurrection then the Christian message is false. What best explains what happened on that first Easter morning? Was there a resurrection? Hallucinations? A mistake? The following are notes from James Fodor (President Melbourne University Secular Society) who debated this topic with […]

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Faith that is not justified?

Ian Robinson — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 05:50:36 +0000

Are our daily lives filled with faith that may be unjustified, as asserted by Barney Zwartz, Senior Fellow with the Centre for Public Christianity, in the Fairfax press? It depends on the way you are using the term ‘faith’. Here, Ian Robinson, President Emeritus of the Rationalist Society, picks apart Zwartz’s facile arguments (in parentheses) THE most […]

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The truth about Jesus

Ian Robinson — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:14:26 +0000

Sifting through what little evidence there is about the origins of Christianity… The truth about Jesus is that we just don’t know what the truth about Jesus is. There are of course a number of accounts of his life and words, and some of the deeds described and the sayings quoted may well have occurred […]

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Atheistic Morality

James Fodor — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 02:47:13 +0000

Introduction Here I conclude my critique of the major arguments raised by John Lennox at the “Cosmic Chemistry?” public lecture and the “Faith has its Reasons” conferences held several months ago. In this sixth and final part of the series, I discuss the claim made by Lennox that no sensible grounding of morality can be […]

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Proving Jesus didn’t exist is a logical fallacy

Brian Morris — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:41:51 +0000

By Brian Morris, Director of Plain Reason WITH new credible evidence that Christianity’s founder was at best an ordinary Judean, and probably not even that, upholders of the faith become increasingly shrill. The circumstantial evidence is overwhelming — in exactly the same way that countless celebrity court cases have been won on “indirect testimony”. Yet Christian […]

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The Evils of Atheism

James Fodor — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:37:03 +0000

Introduction HERE I continue my critique of the major arguments presented by John Lennox at the recent “Cosmic Chemistry?” public lecture and the “Faith has its Reasons” conference. In this fifth part of the series, I discuss the connections made by Lennox between New Atheism and Totalitarian Marxist regimes of the past. I first consider […]

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Christian Contributions to Society

James Fodor — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:02:42 +0000

During August 2014, Oxford Professor of mathematics John Lennox delivered a series of lectures in Australia on “Science and Faith in God.” Considered a leading figure of the evangelical intelligentsia, Lennox made claims that James Fodor, President of the Secular Society of the University of Melbourne, disputes in a series of five articles. In Part 1, Fodor […]

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