Bahnsen uses the final part of his second rebuttal by letting Stein and the audience know that at some point we have to talk about TAG. The argument that Bahnsen is known for surprised and shocked the atheist who hand waves it away without dealing with any of the points. Maybe Stein can make his final case next week in his closing argument.

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We’re breaking up Bahnsen’s 2nd rebuttal into two sections as we did with Stein, as there are two major sections both have covered. In this first half, Bahnsen makes the case of the use of blind faith of atheist materialism, in which the worldview has no ability to justify the use of logic or of science, as the issues that have been covered in the debate – that of the problem of induction and the non-material nature of logic leads to a denial that they even exist.

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Stein didn’t know what the laws of logic were, knows philosophers don’t agree what they are – but now he’s going to point the finger back at Christians and say they don’t know either. He wants to know how does God think and how do Christians even know that. We Christians have a textbook and meetings every week.

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Stein has been stymied and this atheist admits he’s trapped when it comes to his inability to justify his use of the laws of logic within the confines of his atheistic materialism worldview. Next week, we’ll look at his attempt to heap that same outcome on Bahnsen and Christianity.

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A slightly shorter episode due to sickness by the editor but nonetheless still an important part of the Great Debate.

Here, Stein, the atheist admits atheism can’t justify science especially when it comes to induction. This issue that David Hume identified the problem with not having justification that the future will be like the past was identified all the way back during the Enlightenment and those enlightened ones who wanted to shake off God also shook off the justification of the use of science.

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The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows

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While this is supposed to be Stein’s 2nd cross-examination of Bahnsen, we see Bahnsen causes the atheist to stumble by trying to get him to provide the atheist’s metaphysical basis for anything – here specifically for math and the laws of logic. The Christian has a basis, one that the atheist doesn’t like, but that’s better than nothing or a lack of the ability to provide anything.

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Finishing up Bahnsen’s attempt to help out his atheist opponent provide justification for his use of logic, we look at logic being shown through experimentation or agreement. And like the good Christian Bahnsen is, he provides a good overview and then sinks the foundation of the atheist to claim any grounding for logic.

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The Great Debate – Does God Exist? – Edited and Commentary by Joshua Pillows

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Where Stein has claimed that the laws of logic are only agreed upon but useful, Bahnsen is having a hard time accepting that – because it’s wrong. It’s up to Bahnsen to try and make the case for the atheist metaphysical use of the laws of logic. But it’s also up to Bahnsen to shoot those down too and show the failure of atheistic logic.

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The final half of the list of 2025 book reviews has more Greek, more sci-fi, and more indiepub goodness. Romance in space and space opera, talking pigs and talking frogs, first contact with aliens and first contact with demons, and good church history hymns and bad biblical archeology.

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Medea by Euripides

The Trojan Women by Euripides

Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White

The Breadth of Creation by C.S. Johnson

Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

The Clouds by Aristophanes

The Frogs by Aristophanes

Shoot the Devil – Ten Tales of Humans Defeating the Demonic edited by Eric Postma

Lifebinder by Blake Carpenter

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Theogony – Works and Days by Hesiod

Blind Devotion – A Tale of the Van Meter Visitor by Ty Drago

The Last Summer – A Tale of the Glawackus by Jacob Jones-Goldstein

3 Black Nights – An Urban Fantasy Horror Triple Feature! By T.J. Marquis

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

Record of The Paladins – Book of Ivon and Ivoire by BP McCoppin

After Moses Prodigal by Michael F. Kane

The Shepherd Descends by J.A. Raithe

Atlas of World War II – History’s Greatest Conflict Revealed Through Rare Wartime Maps and New Cartography Stephen G. Hyslop

Stones Still Speak – How Biblical Archaeology Illuminates the Stories You Thought You Knew Amanda Hope Haley

The One Year Book of Hymns – 365 Devotions Based on Popular Hymns Robert K. Brown , Mark Norton

The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli

DIEROCK 88 by S.A. Oliver

Before The Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

2025 kicked off my goal of reading the great books of Western Civilization. So in typical fashion I read a little Greek, a little sci-fi, and a smattering of everything else. Indiepub still factored into the list with some hits and misses, just like the tradpubs. As always, the goal we should all have isn’t quantity it’s quality. But quality doesn’t just mean classic great books, it means books you enjoy and changes you and allows you to experience escapism and learn more about God’s world as He is the ultimate storyteller.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The God Frequency by Douglas Hemme

Amorphous – Breaking the Mold by Steven Burgess

Spectrum Multiview Christian Ethics Four Views edited by Steve Wilkens

The Peace War by Vernor Vinge

Greek for the Rest of Us by William D. Mounce

The Iliad by Homer

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

Flight of the Eagles by Gilbert L. Morris

Sundered by Ernie Laurence Jr.

Horus Rising by Dan Abnett

The Odyssey by Homer

D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d’Aulaire

The Secret Door by Jenny Phillips

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Passing the Torch An Apology for Classical Christian Education by Louis Markos

The Core by Leigh A. Bortins

Agamemnon by Aeschylus

The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus

The Eumenides by Aeschylus

The Air We Breathe How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality by Glen Scrivener

Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles

Antigone by Sophocles