{"id":57,"date":"2008-07-17T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T12:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2022-04-11T23:51:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T03:51:33","slug":"still-not-dead-yet-for-now-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2008\/07\/still-not-dead-yet-for-now-at-least\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Not Dead Yet, for Now, at Least"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GodThe last couple of days I’ve been working on a response to “God Is Not Dead Yet<\/a>,” the current cover article of Christianity Today. <\/em>Since I’m working on a project about proofs for the existence of God, I couldn’t help but want to tackle this meaty piece by the prominent evangelical apologist William Lane Craig. Quite without being planned as such, what began as a post for The Row Boat erupted into an article that the folks over at Religion Dispatches<\/em> were kind enough to pick up.<\/p>\n

Craig’s feature article<\/a> makes clear that he means something somewhat more decisive than “yet” might give on. God is not only hanging on for dear life against an inevitable death “yet” to come; rather, the evidences for His existence are causing, he claims, a growing “revolution” in the ivory tower. The scientism of New Atheists like Richard Dawkins is now obviously “bygone”: “Atheism, though perhaps still the dominant viewpoint at the American university, is a philosophy in retreat.”<\/p>\n

In what follows, he combines a tango through some of the major traditional arguments for God’s existence (almost exclusively in terms of their modern celebrators) with a revealing discussion about the performative place of natural theology\u2014the study of God through nature’s evidence\u2014in modern culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"GodThe last couple of days I’ve been working on a response to “God Is Not Dead Yet<\/a>,” the current cover article of Christianity Today. <\/em>Since I’m working on a project about proofs for the existence of God, I couldn’t help but want to tackle this meaty piece by the prominent evangelical apologist William Lane Craig. Quite without being planned as such, what began as a post for The Row Boat erupted into an article that the folks over at Religion Dispatches<\/em> were kind enough to pick up.<\/p>\n

Craig’s feature article<\/a> makes clear that he means something somewhat more decisive than “yet” might give on. God is not only hanging on for dear life against an inevitable death “yet” to come; rather, the evidences for His existence are causing, he claims, a growing “revolution” in the ivory tower. The scientism of New Atheists like Richard Dawkins is now obviously “bygone”: “Atheism, though perhaps still the dominant viewpoint at the American university, is a philosophy in retreat.”<\/p>\n

In what follows, he combines a tango through some of the major traditional arguments for God’s existence (almost exclusively in terms of their modern celebrators) with a revealing discussion about the performative place of natural theology\u2014the study of God through nature’s evidence\u2014in modern culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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