Episode 3: You Spin Me Round
August 16th, 2010 at 5:39 pm (Atheism, Epistemology, Sye Ten Bruggencate)
In this third episode of the Theopologetics Podcast I interview a guest concerning the topic of "presuppositional apologetics," an approach to apologetics in which one does not attempt to provide evidence that proves the truth claims of Christianity, but rather that the presupposition that God exists is necessary to account for many of the things we instinctively know to be true.
Music
- Dead or Alive, You Spin Me Round (Like a Record), from the Youthquake album, 1985
Promoted Resources
- Say Hello to my Little Friend, aka the Beretta Cast, with Glenn Peoples.
- Glenn also created my podcast's theme music, so visit his Theme Music New Zealand for all your theme music needs.
- Unbelievable?, with Justin Brierley.
- Available on Premier Christian Radio in the United Kingdom, Saturdays 2:30-4:00pm.
- Also available in the Unbelievable? podcast (new episodes posted shortly after they air).
- Sinner Ministries, with Sye Ten Bruggencate.
- "Nobody needs arguments for the existence of God. Nobody needs proof that God exists. The Bible teaches that those who claim that God does not exist are merely suppressing what they already know to be true."
Terminology
- Epistemology: the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge.
- Evidential Apologetics: an approach to defending the Christian faith from critics by presenting evidence that God exists.
- Presuppositional Apologetics: an approach to defending the Christian faith from critics by demonstrating that only a biblical world view can account for evidence in the first place.
- Circular Reasoning/Logic: as I'm using it in this episode, appealing to or relying upon something to account for the existence of that very thing; for example, believing that the future will be like the past because the future has in the past been like the past.
Biblical References
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Howard Hughes said,
December 13, 2010 at 12:37 am
Why is this edited? I don’t listen to edited debates becasue they are not true representations of the debate. They are what someone wantes the debate to be.
theopologetics said,
December 13, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Hi, Howard. The few short clips I played from the Unbelievable? debate were not intended to represent the debate. They were merely intended to demonstrate what I perceive to be the circular reasoning which must be employed by atheists, as a prelude to the interview with Sye.