Jordan Sobel - Atheism requires faith to defend #shorts
“…if one takes up the task of providing sound arguments for atheism, formidable difficulties arise …
It is much easier to punch holes in theistic arguments … than to actually argue for [the] truth [of atheism]”
Logic and Theism: Arguments For and Against Beliefs in God (Cambridge, 2009), p401. Jordan Howard Sobel, University of Toronto
[When the latter is undertaken] we find that the needs of and problems of the atheist are parallel to those of the theist.
To impose the same argumentative restrictions upon the atheist is to show that the position is at least as inadequately defended as theism. . . . [W]hatever the reasons for its widespread acceptance, atheism is no less a matter of faith than theism. (Shalkowski 1989, pp. 1, 14)
Before his death, Sobel was considered the leading philosophical defender of Atheism prior to Graham Oppy. Note: He is describing eristic / hiyal
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