The second volume in Christian Apologetics Past and Present: A Primary Source Reader is about to be released (September 20, 2011), and is already on the RealApologetics.org Recommended next to the first volume. And quite randomly, I was browsing Amazon and came across what appears to be a new competitor to Oliphint and Edgar’s work: [...]

Introduction The “Transcendental Argument for God” (TAG) is typically understood as resting upon the “Impossibility of the Contrary.” We may be in a better position apologetically if we think about the Impossibility of the Contrary (IoC) in terms of three aspects of the IoC. These three aspects of the IoC are definition, dogma, and demonstration. [...]

The About, staff, and scholarship pages have been updated alot over the past month. So, heads up. Gone farming this week, so it might be slow for the next few days. Justin Scheiber contacted me and we may do a skype interview on his skeptic worldview etc. But if the Lord wills we’ll finish reviewing [...]

The increasingly popular RealApologetics.org Recommended reading list has been (in the last month) thoroughly overhauled and re-organized on the basis of more strict standards, necessity and importance, etc. The purpose of this list is not to provide a list of everything I recommend, but rather to provide a shortcut for those who want to learn [...]

Finally finished TH300 for the Jesus Bible Institute, Introduction to Apologetics for Rapid City, SD. I delivered 16 lectures on a variety of subjects, and they are now available as a part of RealApologetics.org Scholarship. Feel free to download and share as you please (but keep in mind each lecture is an organic unit; they [...]

When creatures sit back and think about what’s absolutely certain, history usually shows that we arrive at conclusions like “I exist,” and “2+2=4″ and “blue is blue” and so forth. It’s not hard to see why. How could we assert the contrary? As Descartes observed, to deny that I am thinking would lead to the [...]

I come across this question an average of about once a week. So instead of repeating myself, and even though there are several people more qualified to answer such questions (e.g. Oliphint, Edgar, etc.), I’ll just say once and for all what’s my take: For the question, “I want to read Van Til, where should [...]