Via PapaScott, a link to Sunlog, which I'd like to check out a little more. It supports TrackBack, and PapaScott also links to "a PHP function [that will] integrate TrackBack into any blogging system than can output PHP".
Oh, and I have to say this every time I mention TrackBack. Why isn't there an XML-RPC interface for it??
An awesome short introduction to presuppositionalism by David Heddle at blogs4God.
The issue should be which method of apologetics is more glorifying to God.. With its natural subordination of man's intellect and reason to the truth of God's Word, I think that presuppositionalism is in the stronger position to make that claim.
Amen. The article was a great introduction, but I think maybe it should have gone a bit into why the atheistic worldview isn't consistent, and given some idea of why the presuppositional approach is in fact very strong. That ethics are impossible on an atheistic worldview, that atheism destroys the preconditions that are necessary to do science, etc., are all very powerful and damaging critiques of the atheistic worldview.
Presuppositionalism is generally a more philosophically-based apologetical system than evidentialism. It therefore benefits much from the work of prior atheistic philosophers, ironically. So Hume's skepticism can be used to our advantage against atheists (his arguments have never been countered), while Christians, because of God's revelation, are immune to Hume's attacks. Similarly, the arguments of Bertrand Russell, a man deeply concerned with science and rationality, can be used with great effect. Even Russell had to admit that the inductive principle[1], the very basis of scientific inquiry, must be simply assumed from the start.
So one of the things a presuppositional apologist can do (and this is very fun) is show that the atheist's worldview actually requires much more faith (blind faith at that) than the Christian's does. My friend Sean has fun telling atheists that he doesn't have enough faith to believe how they do. I love it.
Footnotes:
[1]: The inductive principle basically "establishes" the validity of our observations. It assumes that our senses bring us in contact with the outside world, can discover truth, etc., and that the outside world will be the same today as it is tomorrow - the same physical laws will hold, etc. All of this is simply assumed without justification on the atheist worldview, whereas a Christian does have justification for these beliefs, without which science is impossible.
Via Slashdot, Knoppix, a Linux distro that works completely from a CD. Very cool.
Hey look, someone else provides links to every other Linux distro that can boot from CD!
Cool, "our rescue disk for our windows OSs is actually a Linux boot disk with parted." I didn't know anything similar to Partition Magic existed.
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