I am not an evangelical Christian but William Lane Craig's Article is a good example of a contemporary philosophers defense of the classical arguments for the existence of God, from an Atheist source. Being an Evangelical Christian has nothing to do with anything, except perhaps to a bigot. I have the source in my library and don't see any cherry pickling from any contributor Christan or Atheist. He has debated leading Atheists all over the world. (If he was a Jew I bet you would be just as dismissive. It is called bigotry)
He was one of those that caused Antony Flew, the world famous atheist to become a Theist. He was there when Flew got an honorary doctorate a couple years ago.
"There Is A God" How the world's most notorious atheist changed his mind.
http://www.amazon.co...=There is a god
Give me an example where he "cherry picked ". You impugn "most" Christian thinkers of doing this, Who?
Why not give us some of the arguments you've learned rather than links to the books you learned them from?
The reason I believe most people cite sources is because not everyone who reads the writing is interested in reading a repeat of the source. No use repeating sources over and over. Some people want more and they can go to the footnote or link. I do it all the time, even here on the ImmInst. If someone cites something, and I am interested, I check out the link and often I bookmark it or in the case of a book, I may buy it. Flew is well worth the read. I recommend you check it out.
“There is a God” Antony Flew
http://www.amazon.co...-...0197&sr=1-1Here is a interesting illustration that comes after Flew has finished tracing his journey from atheism to Theism.. He claims to have followed where the evidence leads and examines Atheism, a position he held for most of his life. He claims to having through this process, eventually discovered the Divine.
Flew calls this process, “a Pilgrimage of Reason..”
Here is the parable he starts with: Pg. 85
Imagine a cell phone is washed upon a shore of a remote island where primitive natives live. This tribe has had no contact with modern society. The natives play with the phone and hit the buttons. To Their amazement there are sounds and they hear voices. They believe that the sounds and voices are properties of the phone.
Being clever natives they decide to make an exact copy of the phone and they do. To their amazement it works exactly like the original! Some Natives were convinced, obviously the voices come from the combination of crystals and metals, chemicals and shapes. The noises and voices are simply other properties of the device.
The Natives call a council of the best and brightest to discuss this. Soon disagreements sprang up. The Witch doctor believes the voices were coming through the device and there must be other people somewhere that were talking. He is condemned as less intelligent there being a rule of logic known as Ockmans Razor which states the simplest explanation is to be preferred. No reason to complicate things by postulating the existence of other beings.
The Witch doctor insisted that if you did not have faith in other unseen beings you would never understand the phone. He is rejected when he asks “What would have to occur, or to have occurred to you, to constitute a reason to at least consider the existence of an unseen, or other greater minds?”
