Category: Blog

RESPONSE: McLatchie’s Puzzling Predicament

I would like to thank Dr. Jonathan McLatchie for taking the time to review my presentation on the Synoptic Problem for Undesigned Coincidences and taking the time to write a reply. McLatchie is Assistant Professor of Biology at Sattler College, an experienced Christian writer, and a fine debater in the apologetics community. First, I would

Methods for Determining the Strength of a Possible Undesigned Coincidence

In this post I want to explain what an Undesigned Coincidence (UC) is and explain some of the important criteria for determining the strength or weakness of a UC candidate. As I see it, sometimes UC advocates will push too far outside the bounds of the criteria, so it can be helpful to get into

The Synoptic Problem for Undesigned Coincidences

The title of this presentation really should be called “The Synoptic Problem for Some Undesigned Coincidences,” because it only addresses a subset for alleged Undesigned Coincidences (UC): Inter-Synoptic UCs. This presentation was delivered at DEFEND 2020 at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in New Orleans, LA in January of 2020. If you want to know

No, not *that* rebuttal!

This post was drafted in March of 2018. Lydia McGrew has finally decided to blog about it, so this draft is now published in December of 2018. Proviso: Her remarks in this post are from a facebook discussion which occurred back in March of 2018 and are consistent with her blog post. TL;DR version: A