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    • Critique Of Lee Strobel's *The Case for Faith* >
      • Response to God_and_Science.com
    • Another Case Not Made: A Critique of Lee Strobel's The Case for a Creator
    • Lee Strobel's "The Case for the Real Jesus"
    • Taylor Carr's Review of The Case for Christ
    • Earl Doherty on *The Case for Christ* >
      • Part One - Is the Gospel Record Reliable?
      • Part Two - What Was the Nature of Jesus?
      • Part Three - Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
    • Atheism, Agnosticism, & Pascal's Wager
    • Historical Methods: A Primer
    • Paul Copan's Untenable Interpretations
  • Additional Articles
    • Why Historical Apologetics is Useless
    • Extraordinary Events -- Extraordinary Evidence?
    • The Implausability of Satan
    • The History Of Satan
    • Freewill: Is it Possible?
    • Death
    • Reply to TrinityRadio's 10 Questions for Atheists
  • Debates
    • A Polite Response to YouTube's TheFunkyTheist
    • Dennis Jensen Debate
    • Gene Cook of "Unchained Radio"
    • J.P. Holding: Tektonics Apologetics Ministries >
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 1 (Response to Holding's "Refutation")
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 2 (Continuing the debate with Mr. Holding via the TheologyWeb.)
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 3
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 4
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 5
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 6
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 7
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 8
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 9
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 10
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 11
      • Response to Tektonics - Part 12
    • Skepticism Examined - Wes Janssen Debate >
      • "Skepticism Examined," by Wes Janssen. Rebuttal by Paul Jacobsen
      • Janssen/Jacobsen Discussion, Round 2
      • Janssen/Jacobsen Discussion, Round 3
      • Janssen/Jacobsen Discussion, Round 4
      • Janssen/Jacobsen Discussion, Round 5
      • On Wes Janssen - C. R. Drost
      • Jansen Responds to Drost
      • A Counter-response to Wes Janssen by C. R. Drost
    • Extraordinary Events: G. Brady Lenardos Debate >
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 1
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 2
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 3
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 4
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 5
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 6
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 7
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 8
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 9
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 10
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 11
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 12
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Round 13 (conclusion of formal debate)
      • Lenardos/Jacobsen Debate - Informal Round 14 (post-debate comments)
      • Lenardo's Rebuttal
  • Faith & Diet
    • Paul Copan's Errors On Diet & Vegetarianism
  • Submissions
    • Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Lie
    • The Eternal Return
    • Berating Brad Stine
    • Why Christians Steal from Secular Morality
    • Response to Smith
    • Choose Your Ancestors: God or Monkeys!
    • Response to "Hitler Wasn't an Athiest"
    • Hitler Really Wasn't an Athiest
    • Response To Phipps: Yet More About Hitler
    • Response to "The Implausability of Satan"
    • Defense of Cosmological Argument
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Feb 27, 2013:  First update to my critique of Lee Strobel's The Case for Faith! in years!  A critic argued against me in regards to my response for Dr. Craig's lottery analogy.  I decided it was worth strengthening that section. See Objection 2.

June 11, 2010:  Updated Historical Methods paper.

Oct 21, 2009:  Fifth Response to Dennis Jensen.

Sept 24, 2009:  John MacDonald reviews Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Life.

Sept 22, 2009:  New submission "The Eternal Return" by John MacDonald.

Mar 29, 2009:  Fourth Response to Dennis Jensen.

Jan 11, 2009:  Third Response to Dennis Jensen.

Jan 9, 2009:  New submission from skeptic Derreck Bennett, "Berating Brad Stine", a rebuttal to Brad Stine's "humor".

Dec 12, 2008:  Due to requests, I removed expletives from Case for the Real Jesus paper.

Dec 4, 2008:  Revised (again) Historical Methods paper.

Dec 2, 2008:  Revised Historical Methods paper.

Dec 1, 2008:  Second Response to Dennis Jensen.

Dec 1, 2008:  New paper:  Free Will: Is it Possible?

Mar 10, 2008:  Third response to Holding's defense of Case for Jesus

Feb 21, 2008:  Response to Dennis Jensen's defense of Strobel's The Case for Faith.

Feb 21, 2008:  Second response to Holding's defense of Case for Jesus

Dec 25, 2007: Response to Holding's defense of Case for Jesus.  I hope he enjoys his Christmas present.

Nov 22, 2007: New submissions: Christian Cliff Soon responds to Phipps in regards to Hitler (again...)  "Response to Phipps" and to Chris Smith in regards to secular morality. "Response to Smith"

Nov 7, 2007:  Completed my critique of Lee Strobel's latest book The Case for the Real Jesus!

Oct 12, 2007:  Added Challenge 4 to my critique of Lee Strobel's newly released The Case for the Real Jesus! Here is my critique of the book, through challenge 4 so far.

Sep 13, 2007:  Added Challenge 3 to my critique of Lee Strobel's newly released The Case for the Real Jesus!

Aug 14, 2007:  Added Challenge 2 to my critique of Lee Strobel's newly released The Case for the Real Jesus!

Aug 5, 2007: I received an advance reader copy of Lee Strobel's upcoming The Case for the Real Jesus! Stay tuned here for a review!

Jun 8, 2007: Another update to  Critique of Lee Strobel's The Case for a Creator, improving discussion of Strobel's experts' qualifications.

Dec 25 2006: Announcing major, Fourth Edition of my  Critique of Lee Strobel's The Case for Faith!

Sep 24, 2006: New submission:  "Why Christians Must Steal From Secular Morality"

Sep 4, 2006: Lenardos finally responds to my article on historical methods.   Here is my response to his response.

Jun 15, 2006: I was a guest of Gene Cook of "Unchained Radio" on his show "The Narrow Mind".

Nov 20, 2005: Professionally proofread and cleaned up my critique of Lee Strobel's The Case for a Creator.  .

Oct 1, 2005: Second Edition of my critique of Paul Copan's That's Just Your Interpretation.

Aug 20, 2005: Announcing major, Third Edition of my  Critique of Lee Strobel's The Case for Faith!

Aug 14, 2005: New submission by Lee Salisbury:  Choose Your Ancestors:  God or Monkeys!

July 3, 2005: Updated  Critique of Lee Strobel's The Case for a Creator, improving wordings on a number of arguments.

July 3, 2005: New article on historical methods and Lenardos' "Framing the Argument".

June 2, 2005: New freeware keyboard macro program, WB Hotkeys.

Mar 21, 2005: Updated  Critique of Lee Strobel's The Case for a Creator.  Improved information in regards to information theory.

Feb 3, 2005: Added excerpts from Earl Doherty's Challenging the Verdict, a commentary on Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ

Dec 11, 2004: Added and round 12 to my debate with JP Holding.

Nov 26, 2004: Updated my  Critique of Lee Strobel's The Case for a Creator.

Nov 18, 2004: New paper added:  Atheism, Agnosticism and Pascal's Wager.

Nov 7, 2004: Added and round 11 to my debate with JP Holding. Round 10  was added Oct 30.

Oct 18, 2004: New submission.  Skeptic Martin Phipps argues Hitler Really Wasn't an Atheist.

Oct 17, 2004: Major new paper!  Critique of Lee Strobel's The Case for a Creator.

Oct 17, 2004: C. R. Drost counter-responds to Wes Janssen.

Oct 3, 2004: Added round 9 to my debate with JP Holding.

Sep 7, 2004: Added round 8 to my debate with JP Holding.

July 25, 2004: Posted part 5 of my debate/discussion with Mr. Wes Janssen.

July 14, 2004: Added round 7 to my debate with JP Holding.

May 22, 2004: Added round 6 to my debate with JP Holding.

May 17, 2004: Wes Janssen responds to C. R. Drost.  Also, revised Case for Faith critique Objection 1.

May 5, 2004: Intellectually Starved in NKC.  This would be funny, if not so sad...

Apr 25, 2004: Added Round 4 of "Skepticism Examined" discussion.  Also, an alternate commentary by another skeptic, C. R. Drost.

Apr 20, 2004: Added an addendum to Response to Tektonics, Part 5.

Apr 19, 2004: Posted Response to Tektonics, Part 5.

Apr 11, 2004: Posted Part 3 of Wes Janssen's "Skepticism Examined" and my rebuttal 3.

Feb 29, 2004: Posted Response to Tektonics, Part 4.

Feb 21, 2004:  Self-professed "liberal Christian," Mr. Ronald Morales writes a response paper to my Implausibility of Satan paper.

Feb 15, 2004:  Posted an Informal Round Fourteen of my debate with G. Brady Lenardos.

Feb 5, 2004:  Completed ROUND THIRTEEN of my debate with G. Brady Lenardos.

Feb 5, 2004:  Reworked site navigation, please let me know if you like it or not!

Dec 28, 2003: Posted Response to Tektonics, Part 3.

Nov 26, 2003:  Rewrote Objection 5 of Case for Faith critique.

Nov 1, 2003:  Response to Tektonics, Part 2.  Also, a small revision to Case for Faith, Objection 6, sub-objections 7 & 8.

Oct 26, 2003:  Tektonics has done a "refutation" of my Case for Faith critique.  He did a good job, or as good a job as he can do considering that he's wrong...J  I have now posted my response.

Oct 24, 2003:  I bring out the BIG GUNS in ROUND EIGHT of my debate with G. Brady Lenardos!  Included in this round is support e-mails from Earl Doherty and Paul Tobin!

Oct 22, 2003:  Small revision to Case for Faith, Objection 2:  First seven paragraphs new or revised.

August 3, 2003:  Announced that I am now an atheist.

June 15, 2003:  Added a vegetarian and diet section.  Not much there yet, except links to some of my articles where the subject comes up. 

May 20, 2003:  I've now posted a rebuttal to part 2 of Skepticism Examined.

May 28, 2003:  A Christian, Mr. Wes Janssen, has provided part 2 of his commentary: Skepticism Examined.

May 18, 2003:  Added a new, significant critique.  This time, I tackle Paul Copan's That's Just Your Interpretation.

May 10, 2003:  Added two new, fairly short papers:  "Death" and "God & Chaos".  Check them out!

April 27, 2003:  Added a new sidebar to my Cosmological Argument paper, where I speculate on the existence of "heavenly-time."  Yeah, its speculation, but some visitors kept insisting that I consider the idea.

April 5, 2003:  Christian Cliff Soon provides a Reader Feedback defense of the Cosmological Argument.

Mar 26, 2003:  Creation and Time:  Old-Earth Progressive Creationist Dr. Hugh Ross and Young-Earth critics Mark Van Bebber and Paul S. Taylor duke it out, leaving neither one standing.

Mar 1, 2003:  Case for Faith critique now downloadable in Micorsoft Word format.  See the revision history page.

Feb 23, 2003:  Added revision history page to my Case for Faith critique.

Feb 8, 2003:  Announcing major rewrite to my Case for Faith critique!  Readers who had not read my critique recently are encouraged to reread it.  Refer to the revision history page for information on what has been revised.

Jan 12, 2003:  I've now posted my preliminary rebuttal to Mr. Ron Stephenson's defense of Strobel.  His defense, and my rebuttal, at this time, cover through Objections 1 through 4.

Jan 12, 2003:  Good reader feedback from Mr. Ron Stephenson.  Now includes responses to parts 1 through 4 of my Strobel critique.

Dec 29, 2002:  Rewrote my Cosmological Argument paper again - I still wasn't happy with the rewrites over the last two weeks.  My apologies to readers who have read several versions of my paper.  I hope it is finally polished.

Dec 11, 2002:  Was Hitler an Atheist?  Christian Cliff Soon provides a Reader Feedback on this issue.


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