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Lunacy
July 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Jim Tucker seems to have forgotten that his own Church officially teaches that Anglican Orders are “null and void”. Even if the bread and wine had been legitimately consecrated, however, one wonders whether Aldrin had official sanction to be totin’ the stuff all over the universe, since his church officially teaches (to the extent that [...]
Jul
29
Burden of Proof
July 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment
In an interesting review in the Times Literary Supplement (21 July) of the re-issue of Anthony Flew’s God and Philosophy, Alvin Plantinga writes:
The thought seems to be that atheism is the baseline or default position: anybody who departs from it labours under a burden of proof. This idea makes sense in legal contexts, and also [...]
