I loved apologetics in seminary; I even felt the Lord tugging at my heart to go that way ... then I found out there was a Mormon stake nearby and realized what was going on.
Amy (aka: Faceman), a really sweet young lady, at The A-Team Blog responded to an intellectual challenge ... showed her stuff. She wrote ...Ought we to dismiss the work of apologists simply because they're defending their particular worldviews? In an interesting discussion that ensued in the comments for my recent post on apologists, a reader made this charge:Get on over there and read the rest of Amy's piece.The problem with this statement about apologists is that it applies to everybody--especially scientists. How does any scientist--naturalist or theist--decide how to direct his research? He looks where he thinks discoveries are most likely to be found based on his view of the nature of the universe.Whereas the rationally-minded individual arrives at a tentative conclusion through argument and logic, the apologist already knows the conclusion, and his task is to fashion argument in support of it. As you can probably discern, the apologist is not held in very high regard outside the theology or belief he defends, and his work is regarded warily.
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Saturday, June 17, 2006
APOLOGETICS: What's good for the geek gander is good for the pious goose!
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