PPT-The Epistemology of Doubt

Travis Dickinson Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary travdickinson wwwtravisdickinsoncom These slides can be found at wwwtravisdickinsoncom Do you fly Making your faith your own. Materialism:. Human persons are wholly material—every part of a person, including the mind, is a material body.. Dualism. : . Human persons are not wholly material—they have both material . bodies and immaterial minds. What is communication?. What is communication?. What do we mean by a “ritual” view?. Basic Questions. What is communication?. What do we mean by a “ritual” view?. What does it mean to say communication rituals involve “theory-driven practices”?. Tamu. The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism. Various formulations by various people. C.S. Lewis, . Miracles. Richard Taylor, . Metaphysics. Others. Formulated by Professor Alvin . Plantinga. in 1993, . How . to . doubt and have faith without exploding. Travis M. Dickinson. Doubting. Do you fly?. Doubting. Doubting. Typical prescription for doubt. Wait it out. Treat symptoms as best you can. Hope it goes away. questionable. syn. : skeptical; cynical. ant: certain; cocky; gullible; inevitable. Forms: N: doubt. V: doubt, doubts, doubted, doubting. Adj. : dubious Adv: dubiously. dubious. The Hunger Games. A service LetŽ may be called by either player/team. Foot faults may only be called by an Official either allocated for that purpose or a person performing a Chair Umpire function. Player Luke 18:1-8. Luke 18:1-8. Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart. , . saying. :" There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. . . REASONABLE DOUBT. The phrase, ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’, is a very important part of our criminal justice system.. A reasonable doubt is . not. a far fetched or frivolous doubt. It is not a doubt based on sympathy or prejudice. It is a doubt based on reason and common sense. It is a doubt that logically arises from the evidence, or the lack of evidence.. By the end of Chapter 2 we had made it to 1840 with the discovery of stellar parallax and correspondingly ridiculously large distances to the stars.. At this point, it is useful to introduce a device, similar to the Evil Genius device of Descartes, known as the Random Alien Test (or RAT). Under the RAT device, an alien spontaneously appears and asks random planetary inhabitants basic knowledge questions about the Universe that any "intelligent civilization" would know. So, in 1840 the RAT question would be:. Psalm 73. Why do we have doubts?. What is doubt?. A.What is doubt?. (ESV) ​1 Truly God is good to Israel,to those who are pure in heart. 2 But as for me, my feet had . almost stumbled. ,my steps had nearly . PHILIP KITCHER. A MELIORATIVE VENTURE. PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE HAVE THE GOAL OF MAKING INQUIRY GO BETTER.. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR INQUIRY TO GO BETTER?. A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY VERSION. “WE MUST AVOID THE CATASTROPHE OF THE PAST TWO MILLENNIA.”. . –. . Paul Tillich. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. . – Voltaire. Doubt. Doubt. Bad Concepts of God #1: Old Bearded Man. Bad Concepts of God #2: Cosmic Chess-Player. When we ‘naturalize’ something we bring it into the realm of space and time.. Approaches to human knowledge that emphasize abstract, necessary principles (Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, for example) lead to skepticism that undercuts empirical science (science about things and events in space and time … notably, things like scientific studies of our cognitive abilities).. Twelve Angry Men What is Reasonable Doubt? In the United States, juries must be instructed to apply the reasonable doubt standard when determining the guilt or innocence of a criminal defendant , but there is much