“When you are inquiring into any subject, maintain a due regard to the arguments and objections on both sides of a question; consider, compare, and balance them well, before you determine for one side. It is a frequent, but a very faulty practice, to hunt after arguments only to make good one side of a question, and entirely to neglect and refuse those which favour the others side. If we have not given a due weight to arguments on both sides, we do but willfully misguide our judgment, and abuse our reason by forbidding its search after truth.”
Source: Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth
“All reasoning is based on either divine revelation or made-up stuff.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“Can we self-generate knowledge by simply assuming things to be true? Where do assumptions come from?”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“One of the paradoxes about demagoguery is that it is simultaneously shameless and obsessed with honor. Shaming them about being internally inconsistent, incapable of reasonable defenses, citing sources that actually contradict what they say - that puts front and center the cognitive dissonance between their shamelessness and their obsession with honor.
None of these strategies work with people who are deep into conspiracy theories, nor with bots, nor with people paid to argue, but, at least in a public forum, pointing out what is happening can get some other people to walk away from demagoguery. Notice that I'm not saying you will thereby persuade them they are wrong. After all, they might not be. You might be wrong. You might both be wrong. You might both be somewhat right. You're trying to persuade them to engage in deliberation, and that means you have to be willing to engage in it, too.”
Source: Demagoguery and Democracy
“Christ is real and knowable.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“Whoever sincerely seeks Christ receives Christ, and Christ reveals truth.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“Christ leads, teaches, and corrects all who follow Him.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“We know Christ exists because we know Him.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“Without Christ, we can’t rationally reason beyond what we can observe.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate
“Faith isn’t making believe but comes by hearing and hearing by God’s rhema.”
Source: Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate