Episode 73 Presuppositional Apologetics Part 2

Doubts Aloud Podcast

Show NotesThis month we return to that different form of Apologetics - Presuppositional Apologetics. Please see Part 1 - Episode 70 - where we gave a more social and historical background to it. Here we look at the basic argument made: the Transcendental Argument for God, “TAG”. We set it out and discuss implications and objections to it. Links:The Debunking Christianity material on Presup:

https://www.debunking-christianity.com/2022/08/the-failure-of-van-tillian.html

The short clip of someone doing a ‘reverse Presup’ on Presuppositional Apologists, invoking a “non-conscious power”:

https://youtu.be/BPF8lcYWQ1Y?si=_B8mO9jUKdA6z8Q7

Blog expanding on our point that our desire for there to be reliable rationality does not show there ishttps://useofreason.wordpress.com/2019/05/10/the-limitations-of-transcendental-arguments/ Julian Baggini’s book “How the World Thinks”

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-World-Thinks-History-Philosophy/dp/1783782285

The Dan Linford paper given to us by Josh on skeptical theism and how it destroys TAG

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4iojx3honcv4mv4/On_Knowledge_Without_God_Van_Tillian_Pre.docx?fbclid=IwAR34-aQh0Kny9J6pTCQbSKyiiuZauzza1j4ddu4WeCTE3XsXCGqdJFq4sa4

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